Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@Alesis_Turner @kmele You talk as if race was designed once and forever after functions everywhere in the same way. That impression is what would mislead students. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Alesis_Turner @kmele My question is evasive? It seems to me that your answer is non responsive. Could you explain what you mean by "All Lives Mattering"? I doubt that the phrase can withstand scrutiny in the way you've deployed it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Alesis_Turner @kmele What do you find objectionable about the content of the phrase "all lives matter"? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jonkay: Yes. It basically means, "the other kids will tease us if we don't wear the right kind of running shoes. So lace up" — PolitiTweet.org

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@katrosenfield @amyalkon Wait until you discover the Japanese toilet https://t.co/SsNRaBdyGV — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @epkaufm: Prediction: GenX numbers will start to rise fast unless Boomers all decide on ancient Egyptian burials — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @webdevMason: @conor64 On the macro level all of this conspires to destroy geographic mobility, which is the cornerstone of class mobili… — PolitiTweet.org

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A good rebuke to the purile sneering directed at principled defenders of free expression https://t.co/Fk15XzCaU7 — PolitiTweet.org

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America needs mRNA vaccine production capacity sufficient to quickly produce booster shots at mass scale to stay ahead of antibody resistant variants. This is an urgent matter. https://t.co/nVuvLiWXC0 — PolitiTweet.org

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@SailofIgnorance @rasmansa @PostingBe @ijbailey @Browser25271932 Sure. I disagreed with Ta-Nehisi Coates on some things (and agreed with him on others) and engaged regularly, to cite one example of many. — PolitiTweet.org

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This would reduce the supply of rental units, spike future rents, decimate new construction, and destroy the ability of people to secure mortgages. What a staggeringly shortsighted housing policy. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa @PostingBe @ijbailey @Browser25271932 That's me asserting that "antiracism" includes but is not synonymous with DiAngelo types--she represents one of many factions who contest what the term should mean. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa @PostingBe @ijbailey @Browser25271932 Can you give an example of me driving that association, as opposed to quoting someone else who presumes it? — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa @PostingBe @ijbailey @Browser25271932 I think "antiracism" has come to be associated with the best selling authors who self-describe as such rather than the strongest or most correct or most effective opposition to racism. But I don't think liberal individualist antiracists should cede the term. — PolitiTweet.org

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@PostingBe @rasmansa @ijbailey @Browser25271932 Way up in the thread, I said, "It is true of Robin DiAngelo's antiracism, but not of mine and yours." I don't know what the girl experienced exactly at her school. I do know the approach to antiracism at some schools is DiAngelesque. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Alesis_Turner @kmele My claim was "across time, most every racial group has subjugated and been subjugated." I did not claim that Ottomans enslaved people because they were white. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Alesis_Turner @kmele That's an odd statement. https://t.co/TVcMU5Sn1t — PolitiTweet.org

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@Alesis_Turner @kmele Enslaved Africans and Native Americans in the most significant New World examples. Across time, most every racial group has subjugated and been subjugated. — PolitiTweet.org

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@petersuderman That is insane, you should mix up your four cocktails — PolitiTweet.org

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@Alesis_Turner @kmele I very much want to tell students why race exists: to artificially subjugate and divide. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Alesis_Turner @kmele For example, programs of this sort cause many participants to conclude that they are being reduced to their race, and some of them literally racially segregate students — PolitiTweet.org

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@theLorso @kmele Do you think race is otherwise unacknowledged in New York City? That wasn't my experience when I lived there. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Alesis_Turner @kmele My claim wasn't that these programs are "to blame" for the pernicious construct. My claim is that they are reinforcing it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@WriterJMS @ijbailey Thanks Jordan, that's enough for me — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey Okay. Is there any parallel formulation of that sort that indicates a group other than white people that you'd similarly defend as not a stereotype? — PolitiTweet.org

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@mumbly_joe How do you know the race of the people being quoted? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey Right, most times when people invoke a racial stereotype one can understand what they're saying. That doesn't make it not a racial stereotype. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey Finding something interesting and relevant and "flattening it" are not synonymous. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey It is a racial stereotype that misleads about the world in the way racial stereotypes always do. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey I haven't flatted it. My initial tweet merely quoted a passage noting self-censorship was happening. Then you did the thing where you react to what you imagine I'm thinking. — PolitiTweet.org