Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@dmarusic i wish everybody were as honest as you, my friend — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@JeffreyASachs I get that this is a hard thing to compile data on, but I saw this linked by someone as proof that cancel culture is a real problem and...well...it kind of suggests the opposite — PolitiTweet.org

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@OsitaNwanevu As @AlexNowrasteh pointed out, this is probably the most absurd one https://t.co/mSfiktIzUm — PolitiTweet.org

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@AlexNowrasteh I didn't even see that one, ludicrous — PolitiTweet.org

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Obviously it's a non-systematic likely undercount based on subjective criteria, etc etc. But it points to the degree to which intellectual discourse in the US right now centers a handful of high-profile examples rather than a systematic analysis of trends. — PolitiTweet.org

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@beingbrina oh yeah, group texts and slack are for dunking — PolitiTweet.org

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This database on "cancellations" is really telling. It goes back until 2006, spanning 6 countries with a combined population a little under 1 billion people. It lists a total of 183 examples https://t.co/uPUpCoVwYz — PolitiTweet.org

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I think so, reasons being that it doesn't send horrible replies in people's direction or incentivize cruelty as a method for acquiring more followers — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

I'm trying to dunk on people less because it's bad intellectual practice and just plain mean, but there's a truly terrible tweet out there about intellectual history. I mean, really bad. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lionel_trolling @mattyglesias Matt’s original tweet is really just a very specific subtweet — PolitiTweet.org

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One detail I didn’t know: after the Indian Army intervened to stop the mass slaughter of civilians and establish Bangladeshi independence, the US moved a carrier into the area to try and deter them. We threatened to attack a democracy to enable an ongoing genocide. https://t.co/RFZ59Gr4Hp — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

I blame autocorrect for the obviously unintentional double negative. Wish I could also blame it for America’s reprehensible Cold War policies in South Asia — PolitiTweet.org

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@gadyepstein The book that convinced me both Nixon and Kissinger are irredeemable — PolitiTweet.org

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Hard not to read about the 1971 Bangladesh war as an American and not think “are we the baddies?” — PolitiTweet.org

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@ThePlumLineGS @jonathanchait spoiler alert you two — PolitiTweet.org

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@dylanmatt aw fellini — PolitiTweet.org

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@PranavDixit hey man, i get the feeling you describe in the piece — my beat is the decline of democracy in the us and globally — all too well — PolitiTweet.org

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Phenomenal piece on techno-authoritarianism in India by @PranavDixit https://t.co/ebCWdVpB0Z — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ThePlumLineGS: Here's the thing: This is what reactionary nationalists believe. They think their conception of "the nation" and "the pe… — PolitiTweet.org

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Who had “weirdly specific anti-Semitism” on their Andrew Cuomo scandal bingo card — PolitiTweet.org

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Nice piece by @ThePlumLineGS quoting someone you may know https://t.co/3u2xX7kovc — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/tnmztiX534 — PolitiTweet.org

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It is I, the Fearless (Taylor’s Version) listener — PolitiTweet.org

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@Max_Fisher 💗 — PolitiTweet.org

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@Max_Fisher pretty smart dissenter in that piece tho — PolitiTweet.org

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@RhetoricPJ @lionel_trolling the case against (((neoconservatism))) — PolitiTweet.org

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@lionel_trolling good lord this person has a phd in philosophy — PolitiTweet.org

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@lionel_trolling what is that quote from — PolitiTweet.org

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@cam_joseph @MrMikeVasquez absolutely, it just comes with its own costs in terms of muddled and potentially confusing messaging. my only solid view is that this stuff is hard — PolitiTweet.org

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@nkulw https://t.co/pX6FcVw5b4 — PolitiTweet.org