Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@ijbailey I agree that it's a vague term. I think there are things that clearly qualify and things that clearly don't and a big gray zone. I think this is in the gray zone and that I dislike it because I am an individualist who dislikes most boycotts and group guilt logic. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: I think there’s a strand in our culture that teaches people it’s a good idea to cultivate grievance and to rationalize pi… — PolitiTweet.org

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You have voted to confirm a Yale Law graduate to the Supreme Court. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @emmacollinsfile: I really enjoyed this piece in @reason by @sladesr https://t.co/ZahUl0d79m https://t.co/lwpGk9TpLC — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey For those who don't believe in it do you never have any objection to things like this? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ggreenwald: This is the face of authoritarianism - even though it looks different than you were taught to expect. And it's the mindset… — PolitiTweet.org

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The @ACLU_NorCal should go all-in on liberty and support the right of San Francisco property owners to build more housing units on their land, which will create more affordable housing even if the city refuses to invest in it. Don't underrate economic liberty. — PolitiTweet.org

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Thread. — PolitiTweet.org

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You really can't think of anyone, Princeton and Harvard Law educated Senator married to Goldman Sachs managing director? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jon_rauch: Scariest thing about this, @JonHaidt, is that your SPSP colleagues have no inkling why it might be wrong to require an ideol… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @meghan_daum: So glad to see @powellnyt cover this controversy. I caught a screening of the film this summer and have been scratching my… — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @CathyYoung63 What criteria would have to be met for you to conclude that there is a "cancel culture"? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @katrosenfield: This piece also makes abundantly clear how much the campaigns to cancel this or that film/ book/ painting/whatever are f… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @katrosenfield: I’ve retweeted a bunch of other people’s tweets about this but really cannot say enough how infuriating it is; every tim… — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey I wasn't assuming that; I was arguing that, having embraced both truth and the premise that truth and social justice don't conflict, I think you should have no problem aligning with Haidt's counsel on truth, regardless of whether he is right or wrong that there can be conflict. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey I don't think they get to decide. I do think that if you think there is no conflict between truth and social justice, you should be comfortable aligning with those, like Haidt, who argue for an uncompromising embrace of truth. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey Not in the way the ascendant invokers of social justice define it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@roddreher @GiorgiaMeloni Rod, do you think she is correct that purveyors of the identitarian turns she is complaining about are motivated by a desire to make... consumer slaves? Because it seems to me that those ideologies are themselves all anticapitalist. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @thomaschattwill: Absolutely shameful: “More than 230 filmmakers signed a letter denouncing the documentary. A majority had not seen it… — PolitiTweet.org

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Never forget: https://t.co/kLPFf1e9HF — PolitiTweet.org

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@fredbartels It seems like you can't defend your initial Tweet, Fred. Perhaps it warrants deletion? — PolitiTweet.org

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@fredbartels I read the original reporting in Reason. https://t.co/DiEhX86L9d Which of these examples strikes you as "pathetic"? https://t.co/kre63ebBCH — PolitiTweet.org

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@fredbartels How are the plagiarism attacks baseless? Did you actually review the passages in question? — PolitiTweet.org

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The result of traditionalist nationalism in Russia: Russians fleeing their own country to avoid being conscripted to murder Ukrainians in an immoral invasion. — PolitiTweet.org

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Donald Trump failed for four years to end the war in Afghanistan yet now brags that he would have done it better. We'll never know for sure since he lost big to Biden but I suspect we'd still be there if he were still president. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ErnestScribblr A Coruña — PolitiTweet.org

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I feel like I should sell this to a 1990s dentist's office but I'm 30 years too late. https://t.co/dI690740aI — PolitiTweet.org

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Credit where due: — PolitiTweet.org

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@Terraphant @DanFriedman81 The American Office could be a good story... — PolitiTweet.org

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@DanFriedman81 @ThomasHoufek I mean, most movies fail. But Kill Bill was awesome. It's not like *adapt a genre for a female lead* is impossible to execute — PolitiTweet.org