Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@HamasakiLaw @mattyglesias You disagree and that's fine, maybe you're right, but treating this as a factual dispute that Matt has wrong isn't fair to him, and as an observer of this stuff myself I think there's a string case that he has it right. — PolitiTweet.org

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@HamasakiLaw @mattyglesias Obviously whether "defund" had an opportunity cost is a contestable opinion, but I must say it's one I've heard from a lot of informed observers who favor criminal justice reform, including members of BLM who thought a Campaign Zero direction was better than defund. — PolitiTweet.org

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@HamasakiLaw @mattyglesias Well I think Matt takes an approach to commentary where he tells his readers what he believes to be true instead of using his commentary to reward those he sees as morally virtuous. And in this way even people who don't share all his moral judgments can benefit from reading him. — PolitiTweet.org

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Since returning to the U.S. I've only been in Los Angeles and Orange County but I've never seen so many help wanted signs in my life. — PolitiTweet.org

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@HamasakiLaw @mattyglesias It detracted by way of the opportunity cost of more popular and politically viable reforms that got marginally less attention — PolitiTweet.org

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@HamasakiLaw @mattyglesias When Matt mentioned "this activist campaign" he seemed to be specifying "defund the police" in particular. Do you think that had numerous successes around the country? — PolitiTweet.org

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@HamasakiLaw @mattyglesias You seem to be implying that he got something wrong. What? — PolitiTweet.org

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@DLind I agree. — PolitiTweet.org

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Apropos my article about some folks in both culture war camps being more similar than they would like to admit, this has very strong Trump vibes, from the rant-aesthetic to the substantive notion that fear is contemptible and that "snowflakes" need the strong to bully them. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @USAO_LosAngeles: Los Angeles City Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas charged with conspiracy, bribery and fraud offenses allegedly committed… — PolitiTweet.org

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@swin24 Hurray! Congrats! — PolitiTweet.org

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Happening now folks — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @JeffreyASachs In his telling, there is a simple test: does a given instance of discrimination increase or decrease equity. I can think of discrimination that would increase equity and also be both illegal and immoral. Can you? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @JeffreyASachs As commonly understood, it is wrong to discriminate against people on the basis of race. Some believe that implicates affirmative action. I tend to think, like SCOTUS, that while quotas (say) are wrong other approaches are defensible. Kendi goes much, much farther. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RogerBobo1 My side? — PolitiTweet.org

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This is reminiscent of the specter of taco trucks on every corner. If 40,000 Brazilians dressed to the nines ever meet up in Connecticut I'm heading there immediately for an awesome vacation. — PolitiTweet.org

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(For those who don't get the reference https://t.co/MOQxPFr1K9 ) — PolitiTweet.org

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Hmm I wonder why no one at Yale suggested that. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @JeffreyASachs "The defining question is whether the discrimination is creating equity or inequity. If discrimination is creating equity, then it is antiracist. If discrimination is creating inequity, then it is racist." — PolitiTweet.org

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Kudos to the always smart and thought-provoking @helenlewis for actually grasping, laying out and grappling with the argument of this special, which should be standard for reviewers, whether they then conclude that it succeeded or failed. https://t.co/oQQNdNRsTo — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @JeffreyASachs Kendi spells out one particularly influential way that the chain of reasoning operates. But I suspect more often it's the guard rails you abandon when you abandon that framework. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RTodKelly @vikrambath1 @padraig2112 @epicciuto No, I've written many, many times against the right transgressing in this way. Your impression is skewed. — PolitiTweet.org

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@epicciuto @ETVPod *banned, not named — PolitiTweet.org

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@epicciuto @ETVPod It's definitely part of the marketplace insofar as it should not be named from it, but all the other merchants, seeing how existentially inimical it is to the marketplace, should agree, despite their other differences, that its speakers are ideological adversaries. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RTodKelly @vikrambath1 @padraig2112 @epicciuto Fortunately I have stood up for free speech and criticized censoriousness in many directions. — PolitiTweet.org

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@GeofftheJohnson I specifically mean Yale Law-like institutions here that purport to train America's future leaders — PolitiTweet.org

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@vikrambath1 @RTodKelly @padraig2112 @epicciuto Here I didn't even call for any condemnations, I spoke of coalitions and who should consider whom a common adversary. That said, all sorts of speech should be both protected and criticized. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @JeffreyASachs As I phrased it I'd say the answer is, *it depends* and *yes insofar as it leads to engaging in race-based discrimination* which I think it tends to but does not always do. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeffreyASachs I haven't read the article just listened to the audio they posted myself. — PolitiTweet.org

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@epicciuto @ETVPod I don't understand the conflict. I too have bitten the bullet: the right of people to call for censorship should not be abrogated, even though I think it is harmful and should be understood as such. — PolitiTweet.org