Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@travisbcurtice @cdcrabtree @ConradCourtenay That's so wild!!! — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@ChristineEmba I mean, that's kinda the plot of the actual Bring It On — PolitiTweet.org

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@ChristineEmba does this man know where i can purchase a cheerleader outfit with a union flag on it, because i would absolutely wear that — PolitiTweet.org

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@arthurrizer @stonewall5151 @RSI @voxdotcom our dude has a stonewall jackson avi, I think it's pretty clear where he's coming from — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BarackObama: As communities around the country try to reimagine how law enforcement can operate in a just, effective and non-discrimina… — PolitiTweet.org

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Worth reading this entire thread from @willwilkinson but I wanted to spotlight these two tweets as especially astute points https://t.co/MEXIXYz7WA — PolitiTweet.org

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Characteristically thoughtful take from Eric here. Come for the sharp takeaway, but do pay attention to the sharp and nuanced discussion of what's wrong with Twitter and political discourse on social media. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

RT @IChotiner: I realize things are complicated and circumstances are different blah blah, but fundamentally we know why this is and everyo… — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin fascinating, just absolutely fascinating — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@MattZeitlin no i legitimately know very little about peter thiel's worldview beyond that he's buddies with mencius moldbug — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @laurenwilliams: Proof that Twitter is not real life: In real life, I'm the EIC of Vox and the fucking boss. I don't tweet, so folks who… — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin does thiel love girard??? — PolitiTweet.org

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(There's been a recent uptick in essays citing Girard as the foundations for their analysis. I can only assume this is because my reading group did a session on his essay about plague as a literary device) — PolitiTweet.org

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Rene Girard is an example of somebody who's done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Me: I'm writing an explainer about the Harper's letter, I need to spend days making sure I've captured all the complex, swirling arguments accurately Also me: There's a growing pandemic and a rolling economic meltdown, is this just a huge waste of journalistic resources? — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

"I am mostly motivated by personal animosities and vague aesthetic commitments. I suspect most “political” writers and tweeters are like me." https://t.co/GJwIV3fO78 — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@dougthomps Are there any scholarly works making that connection? It's a fascinating thought. — PolitiTweet.org

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Everything about this particular political moment is awful, but I think the flareup of anti-Semitism in the NFL is the straw that broke this particular camel's back — PolitiTweet.org

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@jasonintrator @HectorPefo Dammit, I fact-checked that tweet! The SEP entry seemed to support what I remembered from my long-ago 20th century analytic course, but I could be misremembering and misreading https://t.co/bSgfhbgsEJ https://t.co/HEj3sN9BqA — PolitiTweet.org

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@nadinebh_ when i told a prominent jewish voice that i went to a reform shul, he said "oh, so not a *real* shul" — PolitiTweet.org

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@inthesedeserts i lol'd — PolitiTweet.org

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@robbysoave Agree with this too. Though I feel like the targeting of non-prominent people is a related, but in fundamental ways different, type of problem than the one highlighted in the letter (which is pretty much exclusively about elite discourse) — PolitiTweet.org

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@CharlesFLehman so you're saying you liked the neocons' early work, but their more mainstream stuff is kind of a drag — PolitiTweet.org

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@eschensam @grouchybagels You are, in fact, speaking for me! That's a much better way of putting the reply I was drafting to Hannah. — PolitiTweet.org

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@grouchybagels Oh totally. I think the debate here is where Cotton's op-ed fell on the spectrum; the people on that letter would say it's very different from publishing Duke. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

What is actually a conversation about where to draw some particularly difficult and blurry lines is being turned into a kind of intra-left culture war, making a challenging task even more challenging. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

This conversation is quickly polarizing into "cancel culture is a threat to liberal democracy" versus "anti-cancel culture people are doing violence to marginalized communities." But the cancelers are operating within liberalism; many of the pro-speech voices care about injustice — PolitiTweet.org

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However, it's also more than possible to take this too far. The shameful treatment of David Shor is a very good example, the most commonly cited in this debate on the "free speech" side for good reason. — PolitiTweet.org

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Similarly, I don't think anyone of good faith and good intentions thinks that National Review was wrong to fire John Derbyshire for being a huge racist. Derb was "cancelled," but generally speaking it was seen as a positive step. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Everyone agrees that certain speech deserves to be excluded from prominent outlets. It's uncontroversial to say that, for example, the New York Times shouldn't publish an op-ed by David Duke on "the Jewish question." — PolitiTweet.org