Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

On the importance of encouraging dissent in wartime—and the inaccurate characterization and unfair stigmatization of the Progressive Congressional Caucus statement on Ukraine. https://t.co/noLehJkC1G — PolitiTweet.org

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@intersectoid @ijbailey Forgot? Did you have the impression that I read the WSJ exhaustively in 2007? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey Mr. Rogers was still on the air during the rise of 90s PC and the ensuing backlash. I don't know if anyone criticized him during that backlash but IMHO that's a good proxy for whether he would be criticized today. — PolitiTweet.org

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@safarishane @davidminpdx "evidence" — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidminpdx This is a Tweet about giving back money for construction. I also direct you to the city's pathological unwillingness to build more housing, its $1.7 million toilet, its trash can procurement process... — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @pushtheneedle: the space race vs the timeline for seattle to build a bike lane and bus lane. same scale. https://t.co/5SXDq8sCR6 — PolitiTweet.org

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Is any major American city more poorly governed? — PolitiTweet.org

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@sivavaid @jeffjarvis @JonHaidt I wish this conference was open to the press. But attending an event that organizers close is not "hiding from critics." — PolitiTweet.org

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@mazercore @ColWillBurg @jasonintrator @MattLabor I am not moving the goalposts, I am demanding an example that validates the language in the original tweet, which is what I objected to from the start — PolitiTweet.org

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@sivavaid @ijbailey @zach_brownies I didn't ask if he could choose a better word I asked if you think his use of that word is a sign of a lazy and bigoted mind? — PolitiTweet.org

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@sivavaid @ijbailey @zach_brownies Do you think Obama has "a lazy bigoted mind"? — PolitiTweet.org

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@sivavaid @ijbailey @zach_brownies https://t.co/1r1gVey1Lg — PolitiTweet.org

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@VinodSreeharsha @zach_brownies @ijbailey Wait, obviously you can disagree with me on any given thing that I call illiberal, but surely you agree that illiberalism is a real thing, right? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @VinodSreeharsha @zach_brownies Something like "the belief that people of different 'races' have inherently different race-based identities" — PolitiTweet.org

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@VinodSreeharsha @zach_brownies @ijbailey When other people are less articulate and use woke and you pretend what they're complaining about isn't even real, you are missing a lot. — PolitiTweet.org

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@VinodSreeharsha @zach_brownies @ijbailey I have not railed against "the woke." I have failed against such things as illiberalism, puritanical zealotry, dearth of rigor, scapegoating, public shaming, racial essentialism, and other real problems I try to describe as specifically as possible. — PolitiTweet.org

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@VinodSreeharsha @zach_brownies @ijbailey I am not making an argument. I am describing various meanings people intend when they use a word. I don't particularly like the word myself, but it's in common use and I don't decide which words enter common use. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @dstipson @zach_brownies People tend to get frustrated when every time they try to contest a kind of politics they disagree with someone tells them that the words they are using are slurs--they tend to feel others are trying to shut them down rather than engage them. I know that's not your intent. — PolitiTweet.org

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@zach_brownies @ijbailey I think more precision is better. Some people mean what you said. Others mean sanctimonious puritanical zealotry that manifests as left authoritarianism. Other people mean political correctness. But most don't intend it as a slur so much as a descriptive pejorative — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @zach_brownies Freddie has written about this https://t.co/TK5o20ke3Y — PolitiTweet.org

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@mercifulgorn @jasonintrator @MattLabor I would think many names would jump to mind if this phenomenon was so common and glaring. Who are they? — PolitiTweet.org

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@mercifulgorn @jasonintrator @MattLabor What I've been trying to tell you is that Jason's claim is bullshit & false as evidenced by everyone's inability to find even one example validating it. If you would like we could talk about cancel culture. Maybe someone in the MSM obsessed about it and ignores Trump. If so, who? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: Is Bono "so hated"? My sense is he's a very popular and successful musician and also basically right about what he says… — PolitiTweet.org

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@mercifulgorn @jasonintrator @MattLabor That is what it looks like for a publication to treat someone as the main threat to democracy. Jason's claim is bullshit and your claim of "gaslighting" is inane and insulting. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mercifulgorn @jasonintrator @MattLabor https://t.co/DaBbM9EUQx — PolitiTweet.org

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@mercifulgorn @jasonintrator @MattLabor https://t.co/uaxYA0DQKk — PolitiTweet.org

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@mercifulgorn @jasonintrator @MattLabor https://t.co/XOcVNpVzuB — PolitiTweet.org

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@mercifulgorn @jasonintrator @MattLabor https://t.co/udffJwly6b — PolitiTweet.org

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@mercifulgorn @jasonintrator @MattLabor Let's take a quick tour of some Atlantic articles. https://t.co/XzheSzyPjz — PolitiTweet.org

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@mercifulgorn @jasonintrator @MattLabor No, it didn't match a reality we all recognize, because contra Jason, zero MSM publications treated leftist students as the main threat to US democracy. The NYT, The WaPost, The Atlantic and more all treated Trump that way, *including in editorials*! — PolitiTweet.org