Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

RT @robbysoave: I frequently disagree with my good friend @zackbeauchamp. But the idea that he somehow misrepresented Amy Wax’s views is qu… — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@karlbykarlsmith Not at the National Conservatism conference speech. I was in the room; his argument is that it’s an alliance of big business and egghead liberals that constitutes the “cosmopolitan class” destroying America. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@thauma_idesthai i wish more people agreed with us! — PolitiTweet.org

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Read @cjane87's explanation of what the conservative defenses of Wax say about the right today https://t.co/LfDvBfepzl https://t.co/kAd5Ohsj8X — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@HeerJeet @BostonReview Yeah, I didn't even plan on getting into disagreement *within* philosophy and political theory. But even if we're just strictly talking about those fields, and not the broader world, cosmopolitanism is far from hegemonic. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dhnexon Yep, I thought your case that he's doing something much more nefarious a few days ago was very persuasive — PolitiTweet.org

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Anti-cosmopolitanism is one of the rare things that's actually bipartisan in DC. The fact that Hawley presents it as otherwise suggests one of two things: he doesn't know what he's talking about or he's being dishonest. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

When I was writing about primarily about foreign policy, I noticed that every conversation centered on what was in America's "national interests," not what was good for the world writ large. I wrote about this at one point https://t.co/tF8acBXSgJ — PolitiTweet.org

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Virtually no Democrats or DC policy types believe that there is no moral difference between citizens and non-citizens. It's a tiny minority view, with virtually no power outside a handful of academic disciplines, that Hawley is scapegoating. — PolitiTweet.org

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One thing that struck me about the Josh Hawley controversy is his assumption that most liberals are philosophical cosmopolitans. Speaking as a card-carrying member of both groups, that's just not true. — PolitiTweet.org

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@gelbach @CoreyRYung Ha! What I'd say is that you did a very effective job explaining why her position was so terrible early on in the piece — PolitiTweet.org

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@gelbach @CoreyRYung Thanks Jonah — I looked at your old piece during my reporting process. Really appreciate your support! — PolitiTweet.org

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@gelbach @CoreyRYung it's been fixed! — PolitiTweet.org

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@yhazony This isn't an issue of "censorship," any more than it's "censorship" that I wasn't invited to give a panel talk. It's a question of who you want representing your movement and playing a role in defining its ideas. — PolitiTweet.org

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@yhazony So this is my question for @yhazony: you banned some alt-right figures from the conference, and good for you. But Amy Wax — who cites VDARE as "thoughtful," and quotes John Derbyshire on "magic dirt" and refers to him as "my friend" — gives a panel talk. Why? https://t.co/RCKfWV9IyF — PolitiTweet.org

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@yhazony Her own view is that non-Western immigrants are as a whole not assimilable, and America is better off if it is "dominated" in demographic and political terms by people of Western origin https://t.co/d1h6UkszGN https://t.co/VKkI2ytcWr — PolitiTweet.org

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@yhazony Wax explicitly links her "cultural distance" nationalism to the alt-right. This isn't me smearing her — it's her own words in her published research https://t.co/d1h6UkszGN https://t.co/iVtgpOkynl — PolitiTweet.org

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My response to @yhazony, featuring a number of new quotes from Wax’s research and conference speech https://t.co/s8z8eL1G70 — PolitiTweet.org

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In the running for worst tweet of the year — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JeffreyASachs: If you're like me, you'd rather walk into traffic than read another centrist/NeverTrump column on why Democrats need to… — PolitiTweet.org

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Rorschach — PolitiTweet.org

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This is awful news. I am so sorry for Mark and his family. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ne0liberal @zeithistoriker this sounds like a really fascinating conversation, excited to listen — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ishaantharoor: I finally watched the whole thing. It is excruciating and ghastly and deserves lengthy commentary in its own right. http… — PolitiTweet.org

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@jennyschuessler @RosieGray So on my side are the audio recording, the surrounding paragraphs of context, and the reads of other journalists attending the panel. On the other is Yoram's citation of Wax's published paper — which is significantly different from her talk! — and his cry of "fake news" — PolitiTweet.org

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Oh, and I wasn't the only journalist in attendance to report the comments that way. @jennyschuessler at the Times (https://t.co/tEjqx1UnSy) and @RosieGray at Buzzfeed (https://t.co/ozNocYwgMH) heard the same thing from Wax https://t.co/Gk4kEL6FHX — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

RT @katherinemiller: Live, uh, from the National Conservatism Conference this week https://t.co/k9BkLsWtH7 https://t.co/QxF1vzy2i4 — PolitiTweet.org

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@PeterRNeumann Precisely right, and why the "but it's not an explicitly racial test for immigration" rebuttal is so profoundly disingenuous — PolitiTweet.org

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The speech also began with her saying "Conservatives need a realistic approach to immigration that...preserves the United States as a Western and First World nation.” It concludes with this passage: https://t.co/CuZrArhe88 — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Here is the surrounding context for Wax's comments. It's excruciatingly clear that she is endorsing an immigration system that (in effect) prefers whites over non-whites https://t.co/XYMxuqsz7k — PolitiTweet.org