Conor Friedersdorf

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@originalspin What harm do the views expressed cause? — PolitiTweet.org

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@alexschmidt If a comedian records a comedy special, and then the folks at the network decide to cut a joke, I'd call that censoring it. I don't think that's *always* wrong. For example, I'd censor a joke that crossed the libel threshold. — PolitiTweet.org

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A question for folks who think Netflix should have never aired or should remove the Chappelle special: how would you phrase the general policy that you want streaming platforms to rely on when deciding whether or not to censor comedy? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mmasnick: Why does anyone listen to anything @profgalloway says on anything when he is just so obviously wrong and clueless? Trotting o… — PolitiTweet.org

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@matryoshka_core @GBBranstetter No, I didn't. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @longdrivesouth: Some ~personal news~ cuz when you get called up, you get called up: I'm taking on a new temporary assignment, joining @… — PolitiTweet.org

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Have mercy. — PolitiTweet.org

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@aaronleedowell As best I can tell the scholarship cuts against *causes violence* — PolitiTweet.org

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@AwldSossige One of the 6 words I found! — PolitiTweet.org

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@sadydoyle Which joke? — PolitiTweet.org

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Startup retail concept optimized for San Francisco w/ its iconic blend of extreme NIMBY rent-seeking wealth and distaste for enforcing property crime. It's called the $1,000 Store. It's like the $1 store, but on Valencia and priced so that you can't steal its stuff with impunity — PolitiTweet.org

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@jmaynardkanyes No way by far the hardest I've seen! — PolitiTweet.org

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Hmm. Don't think I'm getting to "genius" today. https://t.co/snm2HF6U2d — PolitiTweet.org

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@GBBranstetter Is your intention to pick a fight with someone whose claims are accurate because I did not make other claims with rhetorical force that you judge sufficient? I don't get it. I made no claims about the nature or recency of progress. — PolitiTweet.org

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@GBBranstetter Our culture thankfully includes powerful actors and institutions that speak out for the rights and dignity of trans people, and also powerful actors who threaten their rights, and also lots of regular people, many good, many bigots. — PolitiTweet.org

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@GBBranstetter These screenshots that are consistent with my claim sure showed me! — PolitiTweet.org

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@mathewi Right. On a beach, the danger is usually rip tides. What's the danger here? — PolitiTweet.org

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@vituperativeerb To your first question, my answer is, most comedians. I didn't understand your second question. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mathewi Why is using the phrase "successor ideology" a red flag? A red flag signalling what exactly? These are questions that get lost when you argue via emoji. — PolitiTweet.org

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One irony of the current debate about speech and harm: it's far easier to find cases of people committing suicide after online pile-ons against them than it is to find cases of comedy leading to physical harm. — PolitiTweet.org

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@vituperativeerb I would be hard pressed to name a comedian who doesn't make inappropriate jokes. Can you? — PolitiTweet.org

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Important thread — PolitiTweet.org

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@mathewi What do these emojis mean? — PolitiTweet.org

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@vituperativeerb No, I have no objection to that at all — PolitiTweet.org

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& if a famous comedian is mocking a group you belong to, & you're thinking, *this means my group is devalued* I have good news--on Netflix and in most comedy clubs on any given night a huge diversity of identity groups, all of mine very much included, are getting their oxes gored — PolitiTweet.org

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To be clear, I don't deny that our culture sometimes does devalue trans people. It does, and that's a shame. My claim is that *famous comedian can joke about group with impunity* is true of almost all if not all groups, not evidence of anything about any particular group. — PolitiTweet.org

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To me, this is clearly mistaken, which is to say: Dave Chappelle, other famous comedians, and many not so famous comedians can and do routinely mock, disparage, and poke fun at all sorts of groups, including the ones that the Successor Ideology understands as the most powerful — PolitiTweet.org

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There's one claim in this essay on the Chappelle special that I want to discuss real quick: https://t.co/T67zY13AjR https://t.co/W1ddWLjOfR — PolitiTweet.org

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For a second I misread a headline and erroneously thought Machine Gun Kelly was dating Megyn Kelly and I was so confused. — PolitiTweet.org

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As ever, many, many months too late, which is still better than never. — PolitiTweet.org