Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@mercifulgorn @jasonintrator @MattLabor And notice as you struggle to find one single MSM article that checks all the boxes that Jason claimed there are "years and years of articles". Lol. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@mercifulgorn @jasonintrator @MattLabor Let me explain this very clearky: you need an example where "leftist college students" are dubbed "the main threat to democracy." The NYT editorial does not claim that and the NYT editorial board obviously doesn't believe that. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@mercifulgorn @jasonintrator @MattLabor Steve, you're really failing this reading comprehension test. That piece does not declare that leftist students on college campuses are the main threat to US democracy. I'd be curious for you to screenshot the passage that you think says that? — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@mercifulgorn @jasonintrator @MattLabor That is not an MSM article, and it does not single out leftists on college campuses or call them the main threat to democracy, so it's puzzling that you think it is an example of Stanley's claim. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@stuartlandsberg @PretentiousDick @jasonintrator @MattLabor Indeed this is from the same article https://t.co/BXJFRDnV2p — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@stuartlandsberg @PretentiousDick @jasonintrator @MattLabor This is the only example I've seen that gets close, in that it quotes one Times reader as worrying about speech on campus. Still no "main threat to democracy" claim though — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@stuartlandsberg @PretentiousDick @jasonintrator @MattLabor Claim: years of articles in the mainstream media. Your evidence: a conservative think tank event in Britain. Sorry. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

The failure to take more steps to prevent future lab leaks is one of the most glaring failures of the pandemic — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@panorphaeon I decline to cede as straightforward a term as that to a faction with an understanding of it that isn't even shared by most people — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

RT @TheAtlantic: “A child born today will turn 18 in 2040. What attitudes and actions toward race and ethnicity would we adopt today if we… — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@Midnight_Miles @wtfis2bdone @uplandeconomist @jasonintrator @MattLabor I have. It does not resemble your characterizations. And you could engage me on any article but refuse. So goodbye — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@Midnight_Miles @wtfis2bdone @uplandeconomist @jasonintrator @MattLabor Miles, I engage with strangers to avoid being in an epistemic bubble. I ask for evidence of claims as a hedge against the possibility I am mistaken. When a critic dodges all such requests while making extravagant claims that strike me as blatantly false what would you have me do? — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@Midnight_Miles @wtfis2bdone @uplandeconomist @jasonintrator @MattLabor Yes, you are. You are mischaracterizing my work egregiously and hiding behind the "busy life" dodge when asked to provide *any examples at all* that validate your smears. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@Midnight_Miles @wtfis2bdone @uplandeconomist @jasonintrator @MattLabor Miles, your claims cannot be backed up with citations to my articles or my Tweets. You should take some time to consider that an impression you can't back up when asked for evidence is a misimpression. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@Midnight_Miles @wtfis2bdone @uplandeconomist @jasonintrator @MattLabor Still waiting for even a single example — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@Midnight_Miles @wtfis2bdone @uplandeconomist @jasonintrator @MattLabor And look, we can all have false impressions. What gets me is the not giving a damn about the falsehoods even after clear evidence is presented to you showing you were wrong. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@Midnight_Miles @wtfis2bdone @uplandeconomist @jasonintrator @MattLabor I've probably written five or six articles just on her work. So again, how do I square that body of work with your characterizations? On what basis do you make them? Clearly not as one who bothered to check your impressions against what I have actually published. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@Midnight_Miles @wtfis2bdone @uplandeconomist @jasonintrator @MattLabor I have repeatedly popularized the work of a leading scholar of authoritarianism, Karen Stenner https://t.co/uro3vefiHN — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@Midnight_Miles @wtfis2bdone @uplandeconomist @jasonintrator @MattLabor For example, you say I am "hand-waving the effects of the authoritarians and racists." And yet, I have written much more than most journalists about the authoritarian dynamic plaguing the GOP https://t.co/p3ZGjr46a4 — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@Midnight_Miles @wtfis2bdone @uplandeconomist @jasonintrator @MattLabor Again, Miles, I don't think that accurately characterizes *any* article I have written, let alone my main body of work, but if you indeed have a basis for these claims, then let's see the article that resembles your characterizations. I'll happily engage on any you cite. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@Midnight_Miles @wtfis2bdone @uplandeconomist @jasonintrator @MattLabor All my articles are online, Miles. Where are the examples? — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

When antiracism is defined as expansively as the diverse views of Americans who are interested in fighting racism, it is a big tent movement indeed, something one can miss when debate is framed by any one faction's narrow approach. https://t.co/JETTP9dUVH — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@PretentiousDick @jasonintrator @MattLabor (And no, vast majority is not accurate either. You make these confident claims without even doing the work of checking into their correctness. Why?) — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@PretentiousDick @jasonintrator @MattLabor Public colleges violating First Amendment rights *is* government banning speech. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@ColWillBurg @jasonintrator @MattLabor Those articles do not claim students are the main threat, or even a threat, to democracy. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@PretentiousDick @jasonintrator @MattLabor You claimed that I "nigh exclusively" attack left wing students. I provided four counterexamples that were the first four to pop into my head. Do four counterexamples not falsify your claim? How many would? — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@MarcBodnick @jasonintrator @CathyYoung63 @MattLabor Marc, you should understand that *the Tweets you see and consciously notice* and *what someone Tweets* are very different and adjust your assessment of everyone on this platform accordingly. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@Midnight_Miles @wtfis2bdone @uplandeconomist @jasonintrator @MattLabor Miles, please give an example of "fascist cover" I have provided — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@PretentiousDick @jasonintrator @MattLabor See the rest of the thread. Your characterization is demonstrably false. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@PretentiousDick @jasonintrator @MattLabor This is not exhaustive. So I have to ask, what am I to make of your claim that I "nigh exclusively attack left wing students and administrative actions"? It's demonstrably false. What led you to make it? — PolitiTweet.org