Conor Friedersdorf

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@lumpthought Einstein hardest hit — PolitiTweet.org

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Lol. Trump says Florida was doing well long before DeSantis due to people fleeing rising crime to go there, crime he then blames on President Biden. Before DeSantis took office in 2019, Donald Trump was the president. — PolitiTweet.org

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I think the state can go too far regulating medical procedures too, and I suspect David would go farther than me in that area, but the core insight about concept creep and harm is dead on, and the ascendant efforts to take people's kids away are an abomination — PolitiTweet.org

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I recommend this thread paired with a 2016 piece I wrote https://t.co/IIy9iPCVNx — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DavidAFrench: One reason why I’m becoming more libertarian: in reflecting on my life, I realize there were things I was once adamant ab… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jawillick: The misinformation scare of the past seven years is driven by a pessimistic view of ordinary people’s democratic faculties —… — PolitiTweet.org

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@dan_jeezy 2 great albums. — PolitiTweet.org

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@imillhiser @MichaelMcGough3 So... The ends justify the means is your standard? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ProfDBernstein Fair, he really went wrong in the 60s — PolitiTweet.org

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Block Island Sound, the Vineyards, Nantucket, Montauk — no wait something went wrong — PolitiTweet.org

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Red China, Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, North Korea, Rosenberg's, H-Bomb, Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Communist Bloc, Roy Cohn, Juan Perón, Dien Bien Phu falls... — PolitiTweet.org

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Seems like a failure of inclusion––and of someone whose views added diversity to campus. I wonder if anyone in charge of those goods at the school will be questioned. — PolitiTweet.org

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@bendreyfuss @jbarro @CathyYoung63 "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world Ben Dreyfuss." — Ghandi — PolitiTweet.org

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@oldlife I hope so, I haven't watched much since Kobe retired — PolitiTweet.org

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@roddreher The first Trump administration helped give those people more power, just as their behavior in this video makes you more tolerant of Trump. The illiberal right and left fuel one another. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JeffreyASachs: It's very, very difficult to design an anti-DEI bill that doesn't encroach upon academic freedom, common sense, or both.… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @EdWhelanEPPC: With the acquiescence of @StanfordLaw administrators, Stanford law students yesterday shouted down Fifth Circuit judge St… — PolitiTweet.org

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@UnhWut @JamesSurowiecki @thomaschattwill Sorry for a link but this is complicated and I have written about it carefully and in depth https://t.co/0D2pZbKUzh — PolitiTweet.org

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@UnhWut @JamesSurowiecki @thomaschattwill Or they might be authoritarian personality types who become more bigoted when the salience of racial identity is increased. Or they may be selfish such that they care about pollution less when they understand it to harm "them" rather than "us" — PolitiTweet.org

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@UnhWut @JamesSurowiecki @thomaschattwill Your very premise that people being soothed is the issue shows how little you understand that the readers I'm worried about *aren't reacting to that framing with any guilt at all* — PolitiTweet.org

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@UnhWut @JamesSurowiecki @thomaschattwill No I am asking them to take care to avoid eliding disproportionate outcomes with "x race is doing y to z" as they appropriately do on all manner of subjects because humans are bad at not jumping to erroneously us/them conclusions — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki @UnhWut @thomaschattwill And that's partly because my impression of how people respond to headlines is not exclusively informed by extrapolating from how rich upper class diversity-preferring liberals respond to them — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki @UnhWut @thomaschattwill The Perils of Living by the Freeway as a headline on an article that notes both racial and class disparities and that people of all races or classes live close to and far from freeways seems like the best way to me — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki @UnhWut @thomaschattwill And the effect of that reductionist gloss is not to cause anyone to say *ah now I grasp the vestiges of racism*--rather, it makes most people roll their eyes at the reductionism and reinforces other races as "other" for another group — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki @UnhWut @thomaschattwill Sure, but Angelenos of all colors and classes live near freeways--and far from them--in a way that the reductionist and inflammatory "white drivers are polluting the air breathed by L.A.’s people of color" doesn't capture — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @davidfrum: This by @JonHaidt is indeed as powerful and important as promised. Below quotes @glukianoff https://t.co/jRviBZ3a9T https://… — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki @UnhWut @thomaschattwill I'd prefer a Tweet that wasn't reductionist in a way that created a misleading us/them dynamic, but if we must, better along class than racial lines in America — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki @UnhWut @thomaschattwill (I didn't say a 3 day conference for nothing--2 days isn't enough time to cover it!) — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki @UnhWut @thomaschattwill And the people engaged in the clickbait don't even grasp the downside consequences of their framing because they misunderstand how mass communication and the psychology of people not in their tribe works. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki @UnhWut @thomaschattwill I wasn't remarking on the article, I was remarking on the social media sell/framing of the article. I am sympathetic to lots of *downstream effects of bygone racism* analysis. I also think it is often frames in ways that increase clicks but hurt antiracism — PolitiTweet.org