Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

And the simultaneous claim that these institutions are valuable in part because they're training "leaders"! — PolitiTweet.org

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@ETVPod @epicciuto No, my conclusion is *everyone should refrain from calling for censorship of ideas they don't like.* — PolitiTweet.org

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@epicciuto @ETVPod I draw a sharp distinction between *speech that could possibly be inhibiting* and *speech that literally urges the inhibition of other speech." If I argued, *Elizabeth Picciuto should be banned from Twitter* that's different in kind from other disagreements we might have here — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeffreyASachs Sure. My claim here is that *race neutrality is problematic, not compulsory* is a claim openly made by many DEI professionals. They believe it to be "antiracist" — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeffreyASachs Again, I too find that worrisome... but also doesn't everyone understand that's baked into the ideologies of these bureaucracies? — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeffreyASachs I ask because I both find several parts objectionable and also thought everyone understood that's what these bureaucracies do as standard operating procedure. — PolitiTweet.org

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@padraig2112 @RTodKelly @epicciuto The only content-based ask I'm grumpy about here is *censor this content* — PolitiTweet.org

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@epicciuto For paradox of tolerance kinds of reasons. If our premise is that society benefits from the free exchange of ideas, implicit in that is the view that shutting down the free exchange of ideas is bad. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeffreyASachs What do you see as the transgression that warrants discipline? — PolitiTweet.org

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@jttiehen It's certainly their right to protest that way, but I think that it's bad to do so of there if one can easily protest at other locations where the elected is, and especially if there's regular time for public comment and they are otherwise accessible — PolitiTweet.org

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@MerkinMuffley5 What do you take my "pet cause" to be? — PolitiTweet.org

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@jttiehen The tactic is too easily abused by those seeking to intimidate, disproportionately rewarding their efforts, and it needlessly raises the costs of being family members of elected officials in a way that discourages civic participation — PolitiTweet.org

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I'd go farther than her: it's bad to congregate outside the houses of elected officials and protesters, regardless of cause or ideology, should stop doing it. — PolitiTweet.org

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Also interesting that the student comes closer to the scholarship on apologies and how they are received in instances like this than the administrator. (Something I learned reporting this article https://t.co/jLoPJboiH0) — PolitiTweet.org

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Noteworthy in part for the amount of time the administrator spends on PR as opposed to substantive concerns, and always as if the interests of the institution and his personal interests align when in fact this is definitely one of those *you want your own lawyer* moments — PolitiTweet.org

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A fascinating peek inside the diversity bureacracy at Yale Law School https://t.co/zivyk4F5zX — PolitiTweet.org

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I don't think herd immunity was the right strategy circa winter 2020, given how quickly we got vaccines, but wouldn't that strategy have led to more rather than less class equality in deaths, given that lockdown strategies keep the Zoom class at home & essential workers at work? — PolitiTweet.org

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Graeme (and Jay Caspian Kang and HLG) are right. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JTramiers @colleencarp86 One difference is that the KKK is a wildly unpopular terrorist organization that has been a near consensus villain in American life for decades. — PolitiTweet.org

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@distracted56 I don't think that follows. — PolitiTweet.org

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@distracted56 The same ways all conversations happen. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JTramiers @colleencarp86 It's a terrible proxy for right and wrong, but a very good proxy for what will wind up censored if "prevailing social norms" are the standard — PolitiTweet.org

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@eric_knowles ? — PolitiTweet.org

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@distracted56 I don't follow. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Saxis I am engaging it. My engagement is questioning whether the word systemic communicates anything that "equality" and "inclusive" doesn't capture. Does it? My question isn't about "woke excesses" at all. It's about jargon. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ForrestChump_ "Governments pushing electricity use with lavish subsidies for electric vehicles without a reliable electricity system to meet that increased demand are setting the stage for further blackouts." That sentence seems to contain your meaning just fine, doesn't it? — PolitiTweet.org

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Does eliminating the word "systemic" lose anything here? — PolitiTweet.org

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Would replacing "systemic" with "general" lose anything here? — PolitiTweet.org

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Would replacing "systemic" with "universal" here lose anything? — PolitiTweet.org

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Would replacing "systemic problems" with "obstacles" lose anything? — PolitiTweet.org