Elizabeth Bruenig

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

post through it my dude — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

i was 24. it was a lot of — "you're living in somebody's basement, how are you gonna raise a child like that? what if you need to travel for work? do you have any idea how expensive kids are?" etc. with baby #2, concern was: "but you barely have any time for the one you have!" — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@maco_nix right we're talking specifically about the revenge porn as a minor case, that is what grim and greenwald have been accused of 'defending,' and what they've been labeled misogynists over — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@maco_nix but we're not talking about allegations of him being mean, we're talking specifically about the revenge porn case in isolation. — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@rogerbellin absolutely — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

RT @rogerbellin: @ebruenig might be worth pointing out that, all the same, there are indeed some morally defective arguments being advanced… — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@mattyglesias right, this same tendency accounts for the death of taste: having to pretend SNL is still funny because they're making fun of trump, and being accused of rightwingery if you point out the show is objectively unfunny — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@qunzhong_luxian read the thread, i'm not talking about coleman, i'm talking about people who "defended" him, aka, who felt stuff done at 12 shouldn't be held against a person in perpetuity. i personally disagree with them, but i don't think they're necessarily evil — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

but i don't think anyone who was persuaded that he ought to be forgiven based either on a principle regarding juvenile crimes or on the basis of his apologies is necessarily dishonest or morally defective. in complicated cases, reasonable people can and do disagree. — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

the fact that the response to this tweet will be 'hurr hurr okay i see so revenge porn is a """"complex"""" issue' is unfortunately proof positive. this case, involving a 12-year-old perpetrator who has since apologized, is complicated. i still ruled against the kid. — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

it's sad that the defining theme we've decided to go with in our era is 'cancel culture', because the overarching theme is actually 'anti-intellectualism.' the total rejection of complexity, ambiguity, and nuance -- on the right and the left -- is full-tilt anti-intellectualism. — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

i mean it depends on the defense, right? the 'defense' here was: "this person was 12 years old at the time of wrongdoing and has expressed remorse." whether the age factor is exculpatory and whether the remorse is genuine is a judgment call. (i called it no/not really!) — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

i was and am firmly in the 'coleman should hit the bench' camp, but i don't think people who made a different judgment call are evil misogynists — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@BenBlippenstein LMAO fkl;kfl;dskf;lsd — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@JeremyMcLellan its about percentiles, — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

örb in 98th percentile on head circumference...shes going to develop telekinesis — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@JeremyMcLellan ŒRB UNDEFEATED https://t.co/J3VYr9QpCU — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

whenst you're trying to work from home https://t.co/yQqgN7UHmP — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

should i frame the girls' christening gown — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

part 2 https://t.co/BzVXHePnb8 — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@saltopus_rex @kittypurrzog no, lol, she is joking — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@LizardRumsfeld @twiter_human you could say the same thing about this coleman saga — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@jbouie @lionel_trolling the era of algorithmic morality. people #onhere tend to want general axioms they can turn into a judgment machine. you just crank the situation through the machine, and out pops a judgment based strictly on this handful of broad rules. fairness replaces rightness — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

RT @AnnaRowlands1: Rowan Williams being helpful on Covid and confronting our own mortality https://t.co/IQvH4QiUpm — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@evanbernick @AdHaque110 a little kantianism, as a treat, is generally ok — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@pizza_nomics haha i don't live in new york! and never have — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

people too kantian on here. not every moral judgment constitutes case law. when you draw a moral conclusion about a situation, it's fine for it to be limited and contingent. it doesn't have to be universally applicable — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

hm well, not for nothing, but: I did actually know Matt when he was a teenager (we met in high school, on the debate team) and whatever mischief he was up to, it did not include extorting pornographic images out of girls...I don't think that's a particularly proletarian pathology — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

eating fresh strawberry cake https://t.co/AV90nEj0X7 — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@dmsolano9 Yeah, that explains him desiring pornographic images of girls he had a connection to, but doesn’t account for the repeated use (and execution) of threats to obtain them — PolitiTweet.org