Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@jessesingal @mattyglesias @Rationalist69 I kinda want to start a story about a Supreme Court case with two paragraphs on me playing Mario Kart 64. "It is in this context that I learned that SCOTUS dropped its own proverbial banana peel..." — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @NewLiberalsPod And that, too is a problem, as is the cowardice of some academics. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mariachong @ijbailey I am speaking here about my own concerns, not the political correctness wars, whatever those are — PolitiTweet.org

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@mariachong @ijbailey Yes, there was an era of religious orthodoxy and am era of anti-Communist orthodoxy and now there's an era of "social justice orthodoxy" and it too must be resisted as anathema to both the mission of the university and actual social justice — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias @jessesingal @Rationalist69 I'm lost here what is " the game" we're referencing? I'm just here to praise Jesse's latest BarPod episode — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @NewLiberalsPod Correct, but one reason academics self-censor is a powerful administrative bureaucracy that punitively investigates people who stray from what they openly call "culture competence," and many academics fear that bureaucracy — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey I am sure you know your institution better than he does. I am confident he has studied more total institutions than you have, and his assessment squares with what I've seen at colleges where I have reported, though I haven't reported at yours and it may run counter to the trend. — PolitiTweet.org

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@paint771 @Popehat @MoralHazardPay @jadler1969 No one on earth is a bit strong but I agree with the thrust of your statement. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey IMHO, Jonathan Haidt is right: in higher education, the telos of truth seeking is under sustained institutional challenge from the telos of social justice as one ideological faction conceives it, and one result is self censorship. In bygone eras, analogous things happened — PolitiTweet.org

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@jessesingal @Rationalist69 If I'd just done the episode on he who shall not be named I'd need a 6 week vacation. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Popehat @MoralHazardPay @jadler1969 Firmly agree. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Popehat @jadler1969 Yeah, they have the right to censor that episode. I am asserting that they are exercising that right in a manner that's arbitrary, annoying, censorious, idiotic, illiberal, incoherent, anti-artist, and counterproductive to the sort of politics I imagine they want to advance. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Popehat @jadler1969 Removing episodes of The Office from airing is idiotic, because there are costs and it confers zero benefits, and damnit, I don't want fiction I have consumed to be selectively disappeared by nameless censors who offer and in fact have no coherent reasons — PolitiTweet.org

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@Popehat @jadler1969 ...I do think the typical usage is more than "I disagree." It's closer to or more like *this is an excess of social stigma, not a good use and outcome of it.* But usually, there are better, more precise ways to convey the message. Mine here is, — PolitiTweet.org

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@Popehat @jadler1969 We're in agreement that the meaning is constantly shifting and inconsistently applied. As we recent saw, I have tried to use it myself in a principled and consistent way. Rauch has too. But even given the aforementioned I consistencies and hypocrisies in general usage... — PolitiTweet.org

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@Popehat @jadler1969 Obviously this term is all over the place, but I'd thought one of its original meanings was removing movies and tv episodes and songs from circulation because of changing norms or bad stuff stars did. Terminology aside, I think it's bad to disappear old tv episodes for wrongthink — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JimPethokoukis: Local governments need less control, not more, over zoning. If it's already not obvious why, here's a 2000 word explain… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ijbailey: This is legalized theft. Calling it "asset forfeiture" is akin to calling torture "enhanced interrogation." A former Marine w… — PolitiTweet.org

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If the media were as interested in shaming the FDA for its failures as it is in shaming Joe Rogan perhaps we'd have test abundance in America by now. https://t.co/mHvLq3t1uS — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey Though you're correct that people in all sorts of situations self-censor, the phenomenon is especially concerning in higher education, because those are, or were, the institutions we dedicated to truth seeking and knowledge generation. Unlike romantic relationships. — PolitiTweet.org

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Apple was correct to pause its plans to put spyware on U.S. iPhones and the episode clarifies a line that should not be crossed: no searching everyone's devices to catch a few bad actors. https://t.co/Wx4AnZU15A — PolitiTweet.org

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@thomasjwood That was not my claim at all. An illiberal democracy is not synonymous with an autocracy. — PolitiTweet.org

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@aaronleedowell On the contrary Covid lockdowns and the lower flu deaths that coincided with them suggest it is true — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattsteinglass @drvolts Gotcha, you may be right about that — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattsteinglass @drvolts I took him to be advocating for rather than "hating" the idea that he claims that white dudes hate. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattsteinglass @drvolts Except that he's purporting that *other white men*, unlike himself, are like that--implicit in his claim is that he sees what the others don't. And that too is something members of every group would find off-putting. — PolitiTweet.org

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@LincolnAbe1865 @jadler1969 *Worked with America during the war and desperately trying to escape the Taliban* seems like vetting to me! — PolitiTweet.org

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@webdevMason Lol. I would subscribe to a Tough Love with Mason advice column on Substack. — PolitiTweet.org

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@bhumikatharoor @AdrienneLaF If either of you can get me a hover board, or even tickets to a live Chuck Berry show, I will be forever in your debt. — PolitiTweet.org

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I would happily live in a community with people brave enough to side with America against the Taliban and intent on fleeing that abhorrent regime, just as, growing up in Orange County, I happily lived among many Vietnamese refugees + descendants. — PolitiTweet.org