Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@thebirdmaniac @mithos343 @rasmansa @ijbailey I don't think that's how it works, so it's hard to answer. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RobPortman8 I don't find him terrifying at all. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa @mithos343 @thebirdmaniac @ijbailey You clearly didn't understand. My belief is that bad ideas in academia *are most reliably destroyed*, not *protected*, by adjudicating them in the normal academic way, because when you stray from that, some observers conclude you don't have the goods to prevail on the merits. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @thebirdmaniac @rasmansa @mithos343 Correct. The best evidence for it being undermined is not that. — PolitiTweet.org

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@thebirdmaniac @rasmansa @mithos343 @ijbailey I favor criticizing bad ideas. I oppose sanctioning people with bad ideas in ways that undermine academic freedom, because academic freedom is valuable, and we needn't do away with it to defeat bad ideas. — PolitiTweet.org

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@beyerstein @marcushjohnson @rasmansa @ijbailey Your reading comprehension is very poor if you think that is what I argued. — PolitiTweet.org

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@beyerstein @marcushjohnson @rasmansa @ijbailey CRT is not worthy of legal bans and I would urge refutations of the latter idea, and many other wrongheaded ideas. So your premises are doubly faulty. — PolitiTweet.org

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@thebirdmaniac @rasmansa @mithos343 @ijbailey No, I am fine with bad scholarship being harshly eviscerated. But that isn't what I was asked about. When you attack the person instead of the ideas you give unversed observers the wrongheaded impression that you can't defeat the ideas. Smackdowns of bad ideas are fine. — PolitiTweet.org

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It's like he learned to pander by studying Ted Cruz instead of Ronald Reagan. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa @mithos343 @thebirdmaniac @ijbailey I think those ideas are wrongheaded and most effectively defeated on the merits, rather than via ad hominem or censoriousness, modes that fuel rather than sap wrongheaded ideas. I also think it is fine and indeed correct to condemn any value judgment of white supremacy. — PolitiTweet.org

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@studentactivism I think we should value both modes and teach young people that they are sufficiently resilient to glean wisdom from freewheeling mode, not just safe space mode. — PolitiTweet.org

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A disagreement between @alexschmidt and me: Will CDs make a retro comeback in the same way vinyl or cassette tapes did? I say no, she says yes. Thoughts? — PolitiTweet.org

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@nomad_thought Neither I nor any of my growing up friends or family has or has ever had tenure. I am a member of the untenured class. — PolitiTweet.org

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@markecuckerberg @HeymanJordan *pandering — PolitiTweet.org

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@markecuckerberg @HeymanJordan He's pa seeing to Alex Jones fans. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mithos343 @thebirdmaniac @rasmansa @ijbailey It's not vague, it's expansive. I can't list all of the millions of ideas. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mithos343 @thebirdmaniac @rasmansa @ijbailey I think academics should not self censor ideas that they earnestly believe to be true on any matter of ongoing societal debate or controversy. If they believe genocide is good, contra the settled question consensus to the contrary, I'm okay with them keeping that to themselves. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TheAtlantic: "We expect to be presumed innocent of nefarious acts, absent evidence to the contrary—and to be spared public or private a… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @paulpols: This op-ed by @conor64 is by far the best piece on @Apple’s CSAM detection that I’ve read so far. If you read one article on… — PolitiTweet.org

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@markecuckerberg @HeymanJordan Notice that *your argument* is that Maddow is more dangerous *because she is more reputable*. You too think Vance's claim is idiotic — PolitiTweet.org

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@DavidSharp84 And blocked. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DavidSharp84 Again, I don't care about Maddow. I honestly find it embarrassing that he's pandering to Alex Jones fans and positioning that guy of all people as relatively reputable. It's the sort of thing *he'd have scoffed at* a few years ago. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DavidSharp84 Also it's not performative. I've met him. I liked him. I'm viscerally embarrassed watching this. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DavidSharp84 But that isn't what he said. You're imagining a more defensible thing and assuming he meant it. I know he's smart enough to see exactly what he's doing. — PolitiTweet.org

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@markecuckerberg Vance did not make a claim about who is more dangerous. He used the word "reputable." Read more carefully! — PolitiTweet.org

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@DavidSharp84 It's the Alex Jones part that's embarrassing, not the criticizing Maddow. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa @TruthsandLies14 @ZenOfDesign @ijbailey Less interested or perhaps wrong in their assessment of what that requires. — PolitiTweet.org

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I used to think that I could never be a politician because I'd so hate asking people for campaign money. But seeing the very smart Vance act like this is making me realize that certain naked acts of rhetorical pandering would feel even more mortifying than asking for money. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa @TruthsandLies14 @ZenOfDesign @ijbailey What was the vague appeal? — PolitiTweet.org

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@studentactivism @kcjohnson9 I'm for all those qualities — PolitiTweet.org