Conor Friedersdorf

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Yep. Any job that works with the elderly--nursing home worker, Senate staffer, Supreme Court clerk, Rolling Stones roadie--should have to be vaccinated. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mariachong @JacquesTourn @ijbailey @rasmansa @NAChristakis So Maria, what happens if a devout Muslim objects to an explicit image shown in an art history or women's studies class? — PolitiTweet.org

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The effect of this is to weed out people too scrupulous to just lie about frequency of past use. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a very good @AdamSerwer piece, advancing an argument that has grown stronger as new details of Team Trump machinations have emerged. https://t.co/fjNd2BTgCM — PolitiTweet.org

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Confession: I've had the DMX song stuck in my head the whole time I've been in Aix. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DKThomp: "There are now two Australias." https://t.co/6rO0OIE8kw In Perth: offices, pubs, and stadiums are open and crammed In Sydne… — PolitiTweet.org

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Okay but then do 1900 to the present instead of 1960 — PolitiTweet.org

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Today in logo redesigns... https://t.co/AANz2Pdo1B — PolitiTweet.org

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Interesting story from Australia on what triggered a lockdown and the political fallout https://t.co/C58EeTqp8J — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mfcannon: You have a fundamental right to buy #Covid19 rapid tests from abroad. Like this affordable, *American-made* test available in… — PolitiTweet.org

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@MerkinMuffley5 @Moonlitpiglet @ijbailey @NAChristakis Kennedy's retort: "It does no favor to students to spare their feelings if doing so comes at the expense of valuable education." As for me, I'm going to bed. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @rasmansa @NAChristakis He actually just published a Chronicle piece https://t.co/2phBgLPU72 — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @mariachong @rasmansa @NAChristakis I mean, if it was me in that setting I wouldn't use it. But others would and they have arguments for why. Address those arguments if you disagree with them. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @rasmansa @NAChristakis There are professors--Kennedy, Volokh, etc--who argue that using the word itself is pedagogically necessary to accomplish important educational purposes. The specifics are spelled out in Kennedy's book and their joint law review article. I know you disagree — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @rasmansa @NAChristakis Sure, I agree. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @rasmansa @NAChristakis Regardless, I think the investigation was inappropriate for the reasons I articulated. Perhaps the professor could have handled things better but the number of investigations faculty are subject to is getting out of control — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @rasmansa @NAChristakis Maybe, but I doubt the proposition that students should never be told to kick rocks, if our concern is serving their long term interests rather than placating them in a consumerist model. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @rasmansa @NAChristakis Sure. I agree that professors should consider student views and that it is ultimately the call of the professors. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @rasmansa @NAChristakis Because academic freedom protects the rights of professors to disagree about what is "unnecessary" and effects on concentration pedagogical value. You can't beg those questions. They're the core of the matter at hand. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @rasmansa @NAChristakis "Settled question" may seem ambiguous, but when I use it, I mean *really, really settled.* I literally chose genocide, the very worst thing, as my example. One classroom of students obviously can't be the standard for settled. If multiple tenured profs disagree it's not settled. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @rasmansa @NAChristakis Sure, I think *genocide is wrong* is a settled question, whereas *professors shouldn't quote the n-word* is not a settled question. Randall Kennedy, Eugene Volokh, Wendy Kaminer, and John McWhorter all disagree. Can you name four pro-genocide academics off the top of your head? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @MerkinMuffley5 @NAChristakis I'd prefer, *I know excellent scholars and teachers disagree on this, I'd urge you to read and ponder the strongest cases against your approach, though where you come down is your decision in the end* — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @MerkinMuffley5 @NAChristakis (But that wasn't the allegation here.) — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @MerkinMuffley5 @NAChristakis If the allegation is, *this professor is casting about for pretexts to say the n word, going so far as to repeat material we've covered 5 times already!* then yes, that should be investigated, because if true, that would be a problem — PolitiTweet.org

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@MerkinMuffley5 @Moonlitpiglet @ijbailey @NAChristakis No one contests that the material was subject-relevant. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @rasmansa @NAChristakis By the facts of the allegation and the question, "if true, would the behavior alleged be protected by academic freedom." How would you *not know* given the fact pattern before us? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @MerkinMuffley5 @NAChristakis You ask what the allegation is, and they say, He was reading MLK and said the word instead of abbreviating it, and you say, even if true, that would be protected by academic freedom, so no need to investigate. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa @MerkinMuffley5 @ijbailey @NAChristakis I don't think professors are or should be expected to change based on the mere feelings of conservative students. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @MerkinMuffley5 @NAChristakis Allegations that, if true, would be resolved in favor of the complainant. — PolitiTweet.org