Conor Friedersdorf

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Question: Why doesn't Gannett sell a bundled subscription that gets you logged into any Gannett paper? — PolitiTweet.org

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I would love to assign this *at the Kennedy school*. — PolitiTweet.org

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Essay question: Compare and contrast this thread w/ the efforts of David Horowitz to map academics he regards as "the most dangerous in America." What are their tactical similarities & differences? How do their values align & differ? How should academics regard their projects? — PolitiTweet.org

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I hope when they declassify the alien folder there's a @mollyesque cover in there, too. — PolitiTweet.org

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@WallOfMoms So if you ran a state school, and believed roughly half of your students to be fascist, what *would* you do as a result? — PolitiTweet.org

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What should I ask in Up for Debate's "Question of the Week"? — PolitiTweet.org

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@WallOfMoms Do you think they should expel the Trump voting students to rid the colleges of fascists? — PolitiTweet.org

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@AuntoV @ijbailey It *is* something we are trying. I agree there are other things we can try--but that is no reason to eschew probing what the president is doing. And I'm not sure what "willy billy" means here but the scholarship is about size of police forces vs how many murders / police killings — PolitiTweet.org

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@neofriedmanite Why? That seems like exactly how a Polish intellectual of that era would understand liberalism — PolitiTweet.org

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@AuntoV @ijbailey Why? — PolitiTweet.org

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@neofriedmanite I thought that at first too but I think it's distinguishing between negative and positive liberty and saying liberals believe in the former, not the latter — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @AuntoV That's how hypotheticals work: you assume a thing to gain clarity in how you think about a subject; in this case, whether reducing murders and police killings would be worth an increase in police budgets and low-level arrests, if that's how this works out, which it may not. — PolitiTweet.org

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Interesting thread — PolitiTweet.org

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@AuntoV @ijbailey No one wants to answer my question. — PolitiTweet.org

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@WallOfMoms Do you think every 18-year-old who voted Trump in 2020 is a fascist? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey I am not sure how this will work out, but there is some scholarship to suggest it will reduce both murders and police killings. If that's how it turns out will you support it or still oppose it? — PolitiTweet.org

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@MSalkindPearl The question did not imply what you read into it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@cpdanforth You seem to have misinterpreted the question, answering as if it implies something it does not. — PolitiTweet.org

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@M_BobRyan @JaredKlemp @seanhecht @glukianoff So would you be okay with hiring and tenure review including a mandatory statement on how you've advanced ideological diversity? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @christianbrits: AB 2097, which would generally eliminate parking minimums near transit stops, has cleared the California Legislature.… — PolitiTweet.org

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@M_BobRyan @JaredKlemp @seanhecht @glukianoff Although I value *diversity/virtue/anti-starvation philanthropy* highly, it seems imprudent to me to force jobseekers to write statements describing how they have and will continue to advance *diversity/virtue/anti-starvation philanthropy*. — PolitiTweet.org

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*And* — PolitiTweet.org

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@M_BobRyan @JaredKlemp @seanhecht @glukianoff Would you disqualify someone from being hired if they disagreed that "ideological diversity is necessary for intellectual inquiry"? — PolitiTweet.org

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@M_BobRyan @JaredKlemp @seanhecht @glukianoff What attributes make something a loyalty oath as you define them? — PolitiTweet.org

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@M_BobRyan @JaredKlemp @seanhecht @glukianoff I would oppose adding them at any school and believe they can undermine truth-seeking at religious schools, though I haven't studied the variety and wording of different religious schools in the same way I have probed secular education. — PolitiTweet.org

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@M_BobRyan @JaredKlemp @seanhecht @glukianoff Are you okay with some ideological loyalty oaths and not others depending on attributes you haven't fully fleshed out, or are you against all ideological loyalty oaths? — PolitiTweet.org

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@M_BobRyan @JaredKlemp @seanhecht @glukianoff I find that some people argue in a way that attempts to settle discrete points to move things forward and other people resist that approach. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattbilinsky: WHOA — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @techdirt: Arizona’s New ‘No Recording Cops Within 8 Feet’ Law Challenged In Court https://t.co/ngioMJz3YE — PolitiTweet.org

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@M_BobRyan @JaredKlemp @seanhecht @glukianoff Setting those claims aside, do you see how it is both true that *no one is for the murder of police* AND that requiring an essay describing one's loyalty to that idea could very easily come to function as an ideological litmus test? — PolitiTweet.org