Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@XBillups @ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki @DonEMooreJr @irondada17 @CathyYoung63 @JeffBezos I think this is a reasonable position and as long as you hold it I'd only urge you to apply it consistently. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@sivavaid @JamesSurowiecki @ijbailey @VinodSreeharsha @DonEMooreJr @irondada17 @CathyYoung63 @JeffBezos @Jalane_Schmidt @AudreyTruschke I'm a bit confused here. All of us who write publicly--and Rushdie is top of mind--are vulnerable to death threats and violent wackos. That's different from being "powerless" or getting criticized. How do you disentangle those things? — PolitiTweet.org

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@XBillups @DonEMooreJr @ijbailey @irondada17 @CathyYoung63 @JeffBezos I don't disagree in principle. — PolitiTweet.org

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@sivavaid @JamesSurowiecki @ijbailey @VinodSreeharsha @DonEMooreJr @irondada17 @CathyYoung63 @JeffBezos Are you saying "cancel culture" is what's happening here? — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@sivavaid @JamesSurowiecki @ijbailey @VinodSreeharsha @DonEMooreJr @irondada17 @CathyYoung63 @JeffBezos I don't tend to think of tenured professors at prestigious American institutions as "powerless and vulnerable." Do you? Nevertheless, I am here to tell anyone who thinks she should be fired to go away. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is wild and I want to do a whole week long seminar on it — PolitiTweet.org

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@XBillups @DonEMooreJr @ijbailey @irondada17 @CathyYoung63 @JeffBezos So the rule would be "if you donate to an institution don't criticize its employees"? — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@sivavaid @JamesSurowiecki @ijbailey @VinodSreeharsha @DonEMooreJr @irondada17 @CathyYoung63 @JeffBezos I mean, he funds numerous institutions that criticize everyone from right wing leaders to right populist randos. — PolitiTweet.org

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@sivavaid @JamesSurowiecki @ijbailey @VinodSreeharsha @DonEMooreJr @irondada17 @CathyYoung63 @JeffBezos Do you feel the same way when Soros criticizes anyone? — PolitiTweet.org

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No one on the left could ever waste the money of #MAGA aligned Americans more efficiently and completely than Trumpists. https://t.co/K1gkP6vhCW — PolitiTweet.org

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Tbh these seem like Danes spending a summer in Donastia to me. https://t.co/dkRJHhRnnW — PolitiTweet.org

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More. https://t.co/49VqQHmXdh — PolitiTweet.org

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Basque fashion Twxxt. https://t.co/3LjHyU1JkM — PolitiTweet.org

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@jessesingal Standard capitalization? Check. Standard punctuation? Check. Yep, definitely fake. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @CathyYoung63 @JeffBezos What does it say? — PolitiTweet.org

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@PETEKEELEY @ijbailey @DonEMooreJr @irondada17 @CathyYoung63 @JeffBezos One algorithm to rule them all. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki @DonEMooreJr @irondada17 @CathyYoung63 @JeffBezos Because I am curious about the general standard you would have rich people on Twitter abide by. I have repeatedly tried to ask you what that standard is and I am still curious. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki @DonEMooreJr @irondada17 @CathyYoung63 @JeffBezos What on earth?! What are my obscure reply tweets to you "protecting" the richest man on earth from lol? I'm trying to figure out the general standard you would like to see and failing because you won't articulate it. — PolitiTweet.org

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Cut to dog heaven where the first wolf to argue for domestication barks to the first wolf who opposed it, "I told you so." — PolitiTweet.org

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@rinanpakkala @ijbailey @DonEMooreJr @irondada17 @CathyYoung63 @JeffBezos Even when I focus on students I try to include passages like this and to invite them to engage in followups to articulate their perspective more fully. I think charitable explanations are often correct. https://t.co/RT1lAzEQhc — PolitiTweet.org

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@rinanpakkala @ijbailey @DonEMooreJr @irondada17 @CathyYoung63 @JeffBezos My knowledge here is nil, I honestly have no idea. Just seems to me like he talked about the thing everyone was talking about, with no particular consequence — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @DonEMooreJr @irondada17 @CathyYoung63 @JeffBezos I have no idea what he does or doesn't Tweet ever. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rinanpakkala @ijbailey @DonEMooreJr @irondada17 @CathyYoung63 @JeffBezos I have often seen the benefit of the doubt given to them and often give it myself. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rinanpakkala @ijbailey @DonEMooreJr @irondada17 @CathyYoung63 @JeffBezos *Bond — PolitiTweet.org

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@rinanpakkala @ijbailey @DonEMooreJr @irondada17 @CathyYoung63 @JeffBezos Maybe? But maybe he just tweets like we all do sometimes not as a Bind villain mastermind. Again, I feel like a billionaire who wants to duck someone over follows the Thiel/Gawker playbook, not this. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @DonEMooreJr @irondada17 @CathyYoung63 @JeffBezos I keep saying that it isn't clear to me he did *single her out*. We don't know what motivated him. When you quite tweet are you always in the mindset *I shall single this person out*? — PolitiTweet.org

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@rinanpakkala @ijbailey @DonEMooreJr @irondada17 @CathyYoung63 @JeffBezos But she isn't losing her job at CM (thankfully) so it seems like either they could say no or he wasn't calling for a termination — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@ijbailey @DonEMooreJr @irondada17 @CathyYoung63 @JeffBezos I think many of us would love it if, after making a statement one order of logic out, you would address second order points too, as we are concerned with those too. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@ijbailey @DonEMooreJr @irondada17 @CathyYoung63 @JeffBezos It's interesting to see you objecting to criticism because it is cancel culture. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@ijbailey @DonEMooreJr @irondada17 @CathyYoung63 @JeffBezos It isn't obvious to me what he expected to happen. What is obvious to me is that her institution responded badly and I think that's where our ire ought to be aimed. But I am open to hearing the general principle you're gesturing toward if you can articulate it. — PolitiTweet.org