Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@MerkinMuffley5 @mariachong @NAChristakis @JacquesTourn @ijbailey @rasmansa So why not investigate all professors for all possible violations? Some will uncover wrongdoing... — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@MerkinMuffley5 @mariachong @NAChristakis @JacquesTourn @ijbailey @rasmansa It seems to me that your counter-hypothetical is so absurd that it has literally never happened, but perhaps that's the root of our disagreement — PolitiTweet.org

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@MerkinMuffley5 @mariachong @NAChristakis @JacquesTourn @ijbailey @rasmansa None of that was alleged! — PolitiTweet.org

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@adamgurri @R0g3rM3xic0 @MerkinMuffley5 @rasmansa @NAChristakis @mariachong @JacquesTourn @ijbailey I'll repeat myself: "in my opinion, student complaints should not be investigated when, even if true, the alleged professorial behavior would be protected by academic freedom. Administrators are infringing on faculty power and rights with so many punitive investigations." — PolitiTweet.org

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@MerkinMuffley5 @NAChristakis @rasmansa @mariachong @JacquesTourn @ijbailey No, I don't, and that may have been more prudent, but that doesn't change the fact that the law is on his side here given the choice that he did make. — PolitiTweet.org

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@adamgurri @R0g3rM3xic0 @MerkinMuffley5 @rasmansa @NAChristakis @mariachong @JacquesTourn @ijbailey Students have a Constitutional right to express discomfort and I will always defend that right. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MerkinMuffley5 @mariachong @NAChristakis @JacquesTourn @ijbailey @rasmansa No, I'm applying what I take to be the known and universally stipulated facts of this case: that the prof used the word not as a slur, but because he was reading an MLK letter that used the word, which is clearly protected by academic freedom — PolitiTweet.org

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@MerkinMuffley5 @rasmansa @NAChristakis @mariachong @JacquesTourn @ijbailey Are those facts in dispute? — PolitiTweet.org

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@MerkinMuffley5 @rasmansa @NAChristakis @mariachong @JacquesTourn @ijbailey From FIRE's release: https://t.co/ysslmXC9H9 — PolitiTweet.org

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This, 1,000 times this. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MerkinMuffley5 @mariachong @NAChristakis @JacquesTourn @ijbailey @rasmansa A complaint about unfair grading, if validated, would not be protected by academic freedom, and therefore doesn't fall under the carve out I articulated. — PolitiTweet.org

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IMHO Deadwood belongs in this category. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa @MerkinMuffley5 @NAChristakis @mariachong @JacquesTourn @ijbailey It seems to me that your Tweet distorts the matter, but I won't accuse you of bad faith. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@MerkinMuffley5 @mariachong @NAChristakis @JacquesTourn @ijbailey @rasmansa But that isn't what was alleged. If that was alleged, sure, of course an investigation would be appropriate. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ScottGreenfield @dilanesper @Popehat @mariachong @NAChristakis @JacquesTourn @ijbailey @rasmansa What's more disheartening is that the administrators launching needless I investigations often do understand the concept but launch the investigations anyway while being disingenuous about their purpose. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mariachong @rasmansa @NAChristakis @JacquesTourn @ijbailey No one mentioned the slur casually, and on the broader prohibition, some of America's most esteemed Black academics disagree. Here is the counterargument one of them makes: https://t.co/2phBgLPU72 — PolitiTweet.org

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@mariachong @rasmansa @NAChristakis @JacquesTourn @ijbailey My standard would not diminish due process and mirrors legal standards — PolitiTweet.org

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@mariachong @rasmansa @NAChristakis @JacquesTourn @ijbailey Healthy systems also refrain from investigating people for doing something that's not verbotten — PolitiTweet.org

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@NolteNC Could you DM me an email contact for you? — PolitiTweet.org

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Vaccine hesitancy at any scale = mass death. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mariachong @NAChristakis @JacquesTourn @ijbailey @rasmansa Rule of law violations? What law? — PolitiTweet.org

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@mariachong @NAChristakis @JacquesTourn @ijbailey @rasmansa No, in my opinion, student complaints should not be investigated when, even if true, the alleged professorial behavior would be protected by academic freedom. Administrators are infringing on faculty power and rights with so many punitive investigations. — PolitiTweet.org

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Nursing student expelled for submitting an assignment deemed insensitive https://t.co/AOEJzDpn7P FIRE is speaking up for her rights. — PolitiTweet.org

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@cobra0483 The problem is partly with the first part of the double-bind: "To be antiracist, everyone must center equity in their work." In fact lots of public health researchers should be centering other things, because the world has a lot of problems. Not everyone can focus on all of them. — PolitiTweet.org

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@cobra0483 https://t.co/gtCQnSNw1s Nut graf https://t.co/2FtEPHwsfk — PolitiTweet.org

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Another Successor Ideology double-bind: To be antiracist, everyone must center equity in their work; but also, it's problematic that so many white scholars are doing that. https://t.co/wNPpI4SsqD — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @ericuman Well, having read the Tyler Cowen column, I could understand it, but YMMV — PolitiTweet.org

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My God. The Anti-Saloon League has even more to answer for than I thought. https://t.co/UBQlotyEZW — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @ericuman It helps to understand that it's a reaction to a Tyler Cowen column in Bloomburg and to read that column rather than to strip it of that context and then ask others if they can understand it. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ErikAngner: My father, Jan Angner, died at age 75 in an offshore sailing incident on August 26. A Twitter memorial. /1 https://t.co/2Su… — PolitiTweet.org