Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@imyourmoderator If you ever want to have a conversation that involves comparing evidentiary claims rather than evading that discipline you know where to find me. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@imyourmoderator It's very telling that you thought (erroneously) that I was using big words to try to intimidate you. Your ability to discern the motivations of others isn't very good if our interactions are representative. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@imyourmoderator Before asking that question, you Tweeted, "You learn in a censored environment. One you helped create." But when pressed to substantiate your claim, you had no evidence for it. And when pressed to substantiate other claims you refuse to engage. And I should just trust them? — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@imyourmoderator No, I have written skeptically about Big Disinformation. In other words, you made an erroneous claim about me and censorship based on incorrect priors you assumed to be true without bothering to look up evidence. This is why I don't trust claims like yours. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@imyourmoderator How did I help to create a censored environment? — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@imyourmoderator You raise censorship here but you haven't been censored in this conversation (and could email me any link that substantiated the claim I pressed you on regardless). Perhaps rather than the reasons you cite people aren't persuaded by you because you offer no persuasive evidence. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

One wonders: is the L.A. city council really holding its next meeting remotely because of Covid or using Covid as an excuse to avoid the protesters who'd show up if they met in person https://t.co/AnZygwWYB5 — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@imyourmoderator Why do you feel that offering substantiation for claims that you make would "reduce" you in any way? I don't get your psychology at all. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@imyourmoderator It is incredible to me that you are claiming that I am too credulous *because I am pressing an anonymous person on Twitter to cite evidence for their claims rather than reflexively trusting them.* Ponder that for a moment. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@imyourmoderator I did not *trust the television.* I sought out multiple independent sources in different countries, spoke to close friends in the field of medicine, and tracked incoming data from around the world. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@imyourmoderator It seems to me that what you regard as common sense is exactly wrong, and that when asked for evidence to back up your claims you refuse to cite any. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@imyourmoderator If you provide a link to whatever you think the best evidence is for "skyrocketing cancer" I will read whatever it is with an open mind. Perhaps others seeing this thread will too. Absent that we will strongly suspect there is no strong evidence to cite. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@imyourmoderator I have never even heard the claim that "cancers are skyrocketing." If there is evidence for it, cite it, don't pivot to this weak "if you cared" nonsense. I'm here to engage with people who have different views than me and see their evidence, not to indulge in their histrionics — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@imyourmoderator Please cite the evidence for "cancers are skyrocketing." — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@imyourmoderator Again, forget about America. Seek out sources in Israel, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, and Japan. Your conceit that this is rooted in American politics cannot survive the actual global reality. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@imyourmoderator How would one measure *effectiveness at preventing death* other than by comparing the death rates for vaxxed and unvaxxed and coming up with a rough estimate of deaths prevented? Seems like a perfectly sensible thing to study. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@imyourmoderator Who is "they"? What are "the tests"? — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@imyourmoderator I don't understand this Tweet. I am vaccinated. Did I suffer a crime against humanity? What was it? As for previously infected, the case for getting vaccinated or boosted weakens for people with natural immunity from previous infection. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@imyourmoderator Go look at the data in Israel. Or any of the Scandinavian countries. You needn't trust the American medical establishment or media at all to conclude that the vaccine offered good protection against death. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@SarahGrynpas This is a call to focus on them less — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@imyourmoderator https://t.co/kWtBlCICSx — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@imyourmoderator There is overwhelming evidence that it is effective at reducing the odds of death. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

On important issues like climate change, antiracism, and affordable housing, it's vital that liberals refuse to be alienated or scared off or dominated by progressive activists, because *their solutions don't work but we still need to solve the problems* — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@SarahTheHaider Is the piece in question up somewhere? (Love the new podcast with @meghan_daum btw) — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@timjacobwise I don't really understand what you're point is? Trump didn't mobilize a response in a way that was of course wildly inappropriate. That doesn't mean a good response would have been mass slaughter. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

"The premise of foreign reporting is that you don’t have to be Jewish to understand the Holocaust, black to understand civil rights, or dispossessed to understand ethnic cleansing; being human is sufficient." — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@FJohnIV Appears real — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

Another strike against the idea that raising awareness is always helpful to a cause--an oil company hoping to discredit climate activism could hardly devise a better stunt than this. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@cmkourtu Well in the LA recordings disparaging things are said about Oaxacans and Armenians, and I've heard bigotry directed at Koreans from Latinos and Black people in Los Angeles. And I think it is often rooted in the same psychology as xenophobia, whatever you would like to call it — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@GoMikeJGo @cmkourtu I mean, some of them are xenophobic in their psychology and living near Black people for the first time, depending on what village or rural area they are coming from. Others are ideologically anti-black. There are many possibilities — PolitiTweet.org