Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@keithubermensch What do you imagine the margins are on a four story apartment building? — PolitiTweet.org

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Inspired by this much discussed Tweet, Atlantic readers converse about their experience pre-dating-app, post-dating app, and which is better. https://t.co/l3JyNHur2h I did not know about the LDS dating app. — PolitiTweet.org

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You need a house. Pick your ally: Developers: *We would like to take this land, build more housing on it, and sell a unit of it to you at a small profit.* YIMBYS: Ok. NIMBYS: *Build nothing.* Leftists: *People power will allow you to dictate how you are housed.* — PolitiTweet.org

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This is incorrect, but the motives of YIMBYs don't actually matter. What matters is that they are pushing for the correct policy: allowing the construction of more housing. We *don't* have power to "dictate how we are housed" when the construction of more housing is forbidden. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ayagruber: Here's what I think every college/university should say abt controversial tweets: "Faculty members have a right to public e… — PolitiTweet.org

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@pranesh Taken in Europe. — PolitiTweet.org

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Okay bird Twitter, what do we have here? https://t.co/7cCX0zGugw — PolitiTweet.org

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@internetrebecca Especially the petri net part. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NAChristakis: This thread has several examples of British citizens being arrested for opposing the monarchy! This is absurd. And it’s s… — PolitiTweet.org

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Surely someone at @FDRLST should be willing to take this bet? — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeffreyASachs Is there any university today that in your estimation is erring in the direction of being over inclusive of arguments rather than underinclusive? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @perdricof: what i wish more leftists understood is that people like being cruel and they like feeling powerful and they like it best wh… — PolitiTweet.org

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@gmukunda @gcaw @JimPethokoukis This is too much praise but I hope to have more on police reform soon, and I hope that it lives up to your words. — PolitiTweet.org

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@trizzlor I'm interested in criticism of the substance of the piece, and uninterested in criticism of the writing chops of one of the best writers I know. — PolitiTweet.org

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@gmukunda @gcaw @JimPethokoukis I'm going to ponder how I think *magazine publishing something* and *college allowing someone to speak on campus* are alike and different and better articulate my view before I go farther with this. — PolitiTweet.org

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@AioliChowder @kiswanson @gcaw I think you should have to write a book on ISIS first, then we can talk about it, but only if your book is better than his. — PolitiTweet.org

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@gmukunda @gcaw @JimPethokoukis I'm grateful for it––and happy for your questions or dissents anytime. — PolitiTweet.org

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@gmukunda @gcaw @JimPethokoukis Yes, I agree with all of that. https://t.co/pVhVfhxJiA — PolitiTweet.org

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@ASFleischman @gmukunda @gcaw @JimPethokoukis I'd say it's probably more likely. Then again, I've seen some monologues that left me thinking how weak and ridiculous the speaker's ideas were. Harvard students are a pretty discerning group! — PolitiTweet.org

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@gmukunda @gcaw @JimPethokoukis So is it your position that the standards you articulated only apply when space is limited? I had taken you to mean that even if there was a lecture hall available, some people shouldn't be platformed at Harvard. — PolitiTweet.org

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@gmukunda @gcaw @JimPethokoukis I don't know. I suppose that would depend on how broadly you construe "election denier." But if a college student wanted to (say) organize a debate between a Trump attorney and a sharp critic I would not want their college to stop them. — PolitiTweet.org

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@gmukunda @gcaw @JimPethokoukis it seems to me that in the latter, any faculty member or student ought to be able to invite someone to campus to talk about ideas; whereas publications must by necessity be more selective, and might also have a narrower mission (as with The Nation or National Review, say) — PolitiTweet.org

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@gmukunda @gcaw @JimPethokoukis I personally write for but don't commission pieces for The Atlantic. Who editors invite to write, like who professors or students invite to speak, is a judgment call––and it seems to me there is a big difference in how they should be made at magazines versus in higher ed: — PolitiTweet.org

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@gmukunda @gcaw @JimPethokoukis If I were doing the inviting, I'd be most interested in whether the event would advance any of the several missions of the institution––truth-seeking, education, civic acculturation, etc. — PolitiTweet.org

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@gmukunda @gcaw @JimPethokoukis And even if a college were going to go with your standard, I would urge them to ask not whether the college president thinks it is met, but whether any faculty member or student thinks it is met, because I think the power to invite ought to be very democratic — PolitiTweet.org

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@gmukunda @gcaw @JimPethokoukis My own view is different. For example, I think Lee Bollinger was correct and his critics incorrect when he defended the invitation of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who would certainly fail your test. I expect some students and faculty learned from that event. — PolitiTweet.org

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@gmukunda @gcaw @JimPethokoukis What general rule do you use to determine if Harvard should or shouldn't give a platform to a speaker with a given viewpoint? — PolitiTweet.org

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@sivavaid @gcaw Yes, this is a medium with limits, but nothing about them prevents you from citing a specific passage in an article and offering a critique of it that could conceivably lead to a substantive exchange. Instead you made claims that cannot be substantiated. — PolitiTweet.org

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@sivavaid @gcaw This Tweet is just a bunch of pejorative assertions without evidence for them, so it seems like you don't in fact hold yourself to the standards you erroneously claim the piece lacks. — PolitiTweet.org

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@trizzlor I stopped at the "unreadable" Tweet and responded to it, as it was a preposterous claim. I am always happy to engage on the substance of any speech view, and am more likely to see them when not preceded by needlessly hostile nonsense. — PolitiTweet.org