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@KathaPollitt @ebruenig This story is sloppily headlined and dubiously written — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @olgakhazan: I’m a refugee who grew up in Texas and the answer is obviously YES — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: It’s cool that everyone just understands this hotel’s business model was bribes and shakedowns but it’s no big deal htt… — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @mariachong Perhaps the same reason I vote for Democrats. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mariachong @ClayCampaigne @ijbailey I agree with the last part. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ClayCampaigne @ijbailey @mariachong I reject your analysis as empirically unsupported, with many events running counter to what would be expected to happen were it true. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mariachong @ijbailey Yes, and in trans-racial coalitions that do not support a social justice versus white supremacy framing of the issue — PolitiTweet.org

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@Noahpinion @rasmansa @ijbailey @ErikN_NJEdition @NAChristakis I'll take the technical foul but only if it's a double technical. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @katrosenfield: understand the temptation to trivialize this as *just a silly TV show*, but serialized fiction is one of the oldest form… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @katrosenfield: removing one episode from an Office marathon doesn't just happen at the cost of *that episode*; it deletes a key part of… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @katrosenfield: lots of folks mocking the "cancel culture" thing, which, whatever, it's a stupid phrase, but this seems like a clear-cut… — PolitiTweet.org

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@mariachong @ijbailey Also, I too am concerned about all those things! — PolitiTweet.org

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@mariachong @ijbailey I think it's an issue of progressives trying to present their positions on free speech as the authentic beliefs of people of color as a rhetorical tool even when majorities of people of color clearly disagree with them. — PolitiTweet.org

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I delved into the historical record awhile back to evaluate the accuracy of claims like this https://t.co/K9HqSjoTL2 — PolitiTweet.org

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@mariachong @ijbailey And I'm saying that every racial group repeatedly tells pollsters that they are concerned about and hate political correctness, and that white progressives are among the least likely to say that, all of which is utterly at odds with the thesis on offer. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @mariachong Well, not if one includes African slave merchants and free Black American slaveholders but quibbles aside I don't think white slavery, which of course was overwhelmingly predominant in America, is at all analogous to campus speech disputes today... — PolitiTweet.org

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@mariachong @ijbailey (And yes, at all times and eras in academia there was virtue in opposing orthodoxies that interfered with truth seeking) — PolitiTweet.org

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@mariachong @ijbailey What makes you think "diverse people" now hold the power? — PolitiTweet.org

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@cdespinosa Often, yes. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @mariachong How do you decide what the "white" position on speech norms are when every faction is multiracial? Was Henry Louis Gates being influenced by white supremacy, in your view, when he disagrees with the Critical Race Theorists on free speech? — PolitiTweet.org

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@mariachong @ijbailey I find the argument essentialist and unsupported. As if there are dual racialized consensuses on these matters instead of multiracial factions on all sides of all these questions. Is Eleanor Holmes Norton "white" for purposes of this debate, in your view? It's preposterous. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @NewLiberalsPod I don't either. That's why I tend to object most on campus to calls to formally discipline people and bureaucracies that police speech at the institutional level. Unfortunately, those bureaucracies have grown almost everywhere. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RuairiRobinson @Popehat @jadler1969 It's late and I had wine with dinner, no shame in being backed into an escapable corner by as formidable an interlocutor as Popehat — PolitiTweet.org

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@mariachong @ijbailey I disagree with his analysis. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RuairiRobinson @Popehat @jadler1969 I certainly wasn't advancing a legal argument — PolitiTweet.org

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@johnstodder @Popehat @jadler1969 The creators and the IP owners are not the same people. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Popehat @jadler1969 In any case, my message to NBC isn't *stop expressing yourself or else* it's *you've exercised expressive rights you are legally entitled to in ways I find idiotic.* — PolitiTweet.org

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@Popehat @jadler1969 I would draw a distinction for corporate entities like Greenpeace or the NRA acting in accordance with their ideological beliefs, which strikes me as a different kind of expression. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Popehat @jadler1969 mercenary caving to what a corporate functionary imagines to be the potential for bad publicity, or something, causing them to deplatform art. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Popehat @jadler1969 I will ponder this more. But tentatively, when there is a creative product that writers and actors made, and a corporate entity, I grant the legal rights of the latter, but (at least in this case) I highly doubt this is an analogous kind of expression. Rather, I think it is — PolitiTweet.org