Conor Friedersdorf

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@jduffyrice I've concluded it from a variety of survey data and reporting and interviews. This thread is one illustration of a larger phenomenon: the falsification of actual Black and Hispanic opinion by people who treat those groups as if they are progressive Critical Race Theorists — PolitiTweet.org

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@ragepath @JessPish I spoke to Black parents but zero children. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ragepath @JessPish Understood, and without the surrounding context I can see why you pushed back. Happy to hear your critiques any time. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JessPish This parent is not anonymous! https://t.co/D7IexEIezq — PolitiTweet.org

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@ragepath @JessPish But no such campaign was happening in Evanston during the controversy I was writing about. That is my narrow point here. I know because I talked to a bunch of the people involved. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JessPish @ragepath Parents didn't "blow up" about a book their kids read. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ragepath @JessPish Yes, I agree. In the context of our conversation, I was saying *no one in the story on Evanston we were discussing opposed diversity.* Absolutely there are people in the city who do. They weren't my sources or the root of concern about what I wrote on. — PolitiTweet.org

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@seanrobinson1e4 Maybe have a Red Bull? The sugar free though, real stuff is way too sweet. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JessPish I did report on the context, which I know better than you, because I spoke to all the sources about their beliefs and motivations! — PolitiTweet.org

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@JessPish I would bet $100 that if I polled all the people I spoke to for that story on reparations it would win handily. You don't understand their politics or the source of their concerns. — PolitiTweet.org

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@evil_diad @JessPish Indeed, most of them favored teaching the value of diversity explicitly and opposed other stuff — PolitiTweet.org

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@JessPish Who did? — PolitiTweet.org

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@JessPish No one in Evanston opposed "diversity in school" — PolitiTweet.org

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Let's say, for the sake of argument, that a subset of antivaxxers and antimaskers are manifesting denial of a thing that would terrify them if they acknowledged it was true. In general, how do you get people in denial to see more clearly? — PolitiTweet.org

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@kevinh8swriting I would say "parents" are. — PolitiTweet.org

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That's not to say there's no racist opposition to what people shorthand as CRT. There's some racist opposition to most things. But it's not the core of the controversy. — PolitiTweet.org

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Interviewing racially diverse sources helps https://t.co/D7IexEIezq — PolitiTweet.org

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When you eschew making stereotyped presumptions about what people of color believe it spares you from incorrect analysis. https://t.co/e8UFdVCP00 — PolitiTweet.org

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@kristoncapps What most confuses me is the purity moral dimension people, or so I thought, seeming most blase about the novel pathogen. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BillyNoTakes: @conor64 It's a straddling of the verbal/written divide that leads SM right there, IMO: the format itself is effectively… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @YAppelbaum: My experience of archaeologists suggests that if, a thousand years from now, they’re digging up the remains of 21st century… — PolitiTweet.org

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@fighting_wxrds Chief? — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeffreyASachs My pet peeves is comics doing this on stage — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidamann Where is that from? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ninaberries Congrats Nina! They're lucky to secure your talents. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DavidMDrucker: What happened in the Ca Recall … 2) Elder had a case against Newsom. Instead he veered off course & fixated on GOP crowd… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DavidMDrucker: What happened in the CA recall: 1) Larry Elder’s rise activated apathetic Democrats and made voting a matter of stopping… — PolitiTweet.org

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@JustinRood In my estimation, sometime between 2010 and 2020, some significant proportion of Americans went through the changes that Stenner describes in The Authoritarian Dynamic — PolitiTweet.org

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In one darkly comical future scientistists will be bearish on making neo-bulls and bullish on making neo-bears. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RLHeppner There was an opportunity to discuss the substance of *something* here but it's gone. — PolitiTweet.org