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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
The effect of World War II mythology on America's future willingness to wage bad wars is also dramatically overstated. Sure, foreign villains are often compared to Hitler, but that's rhetoric — not actually the reason America invaded Vietnam or Iraq or Afghanistan — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
The way we talk about World War II and the Civil War as moral causes speaks to our contemporary values, working to strengthen public values against bigotry and indifference to far-away suffering. That does really important normative work for the American project. — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
I think an analogy to the Civil War is useful. The war was about slavery, but the North wasn't initially fighting for abolition and its leadership were, by contemporary standards, white supremacists. We still remember it as a righteous cause. And we should! — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@janecoaston It's also weird to single out Spielberg as someone who whitewashed the war's brutality, as if the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan didn't exist — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
These arguments always take the same form: the fighting was brutal, Allied troops committed atrocities, the US leadership didn't really care about the Holocaust. Concede all of that, and the fact remains: absent US intervention, the Nazis would have completed their genocide. — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
I should probably read the book, but I find arguments like this repellant. US involvement in World War II is the only reason I'm alive, my grandparents not brutally murdered by the most evil government in history. We *should* mythologize that victory https://t.co/u08VCBNXXT — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@lionel_trolling It's even worse because when people criticize "1619," mostly what they mean is the editor's framing and that one line about the Revolution in the lead essay — not the vast bulk of the essays. Whereas the body of Rufo/Lindsay's work is complete garbage — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
Yep, it was about something terrible https://t.co/f4HCTNnzr4 — PolitiTweet.org
Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy
Fox host Lara Logan says that people tell her that Dr. Fauci doesn't represent science, but represents Josef Mengel… https://t.co/neXEAnCXuL
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
Yep, it was about something predictably terrible https://t.co/sX3g8UVyXh — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
Well that's never good https://t.co/U011IMMcRT — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@Tsavkko @ggreenwald Yeah, if you're a restrictionist you really don't want to get into numbers on this. The *overwhelming finding* in the literature is that immigration doesn't meaningfully depress native-born wages https://t.co/w7Nz1BkVhP https://t.co/HoRqBfFhrq — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@ggreenwald That's a good resolution! I'll check out the video. — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@sunraysunray I can see that being frustrating! As you know, I'm a longstanding left-liberal open borders person. So for me, personally, it was one of his "worst" moments — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@ggreenwald There are differences between restrictionisms. There's the wages argument, and then there's Tucker Carlson saying that immigrants are dirty and Democrats are orchestrating "the replacement of legacy Americans with more obedient people from far away countries" — white nationalism. — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@sunraysunray It's selfish in that he was arguing that opening borders to immigrants was bad because it hurt native born Americans without any consideration (in the response itself) for the welfare of foreigners. He's subsequently taken a much better line on the issue! — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@ggreenwald I phrased it that way because I know moral equality is a value you and I share in common from foreign policy (and animal rights) debates, which is why I'm curious as to why you're defending immigration restrictionism — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@ggreenwald It is *a* strain of thinking on the labor left, which as you say had become marginal by 2015. I also happen to think it's entirely inconsistent with a belief in moral equality of all people and a concern for the welfare of non-Americans. — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
I do remember this! It was also one of the very worst moments of his campaign and widely criticized as a selfish, economically incorrect gaffe out of step with a long history of left-liberal organizing for global justice and migrant rights — PolitiTweet.org
Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald
Bernie Sanders, in 2015, responded with palpable disgust when @EzraKlein suggested the US had a moral obligation to… https://t.co/9PHg9wbIcj
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
Happy Hanukkah to everyone but especially my daughter Ellie, who is old enough to try latkes for the first time 🕎🥔🕎🥔 https://t.co/ouvoUlSq6W — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@JoshforGeorgia Well conditionality is good — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@JoshforGeorgia Amusingly my dad hates poststructal theory — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
My father is a retired philosophy professor who specialized in, among other things, the history of early modern philosophy. I can’t wait to show him this article and see how genuinely angry he gets — PolitiTweet.org
Discourse Magazine @Discourse_Mag
"[W]okism is just one part of a long intellectual shadow cast by Immanuel Kant that still threatens to smother the… https://t.co/jS6CmMXmr1
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@normative The most irritating part of the piece is the implication that anyone with a philosophy education would agree with it, when the precise opposite is true — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
RT @normative: Oof. Apparently they found someone to double down on the Randian misunderstanding of Kant everyone was having a good laugh… — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
Remember when Mike McCarthy was following fourth down analytics — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
Verdict in the Charlottesville case. Guess it doesn’t pay to be a Nazi — PolitiTweet.org
Christopher Miller @ChristopherJM
In total: Jury has awarded more than $25.3 million for the plaintiffs.
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
RT @EJDionne: This is a crucial point from @zackbeauchamp. The old Radical Right and the current Radical Right are very similar. The differ… — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
RT @reportbywilson: Kyle Rittenhouse and the scary future of the American right https://t.co/wWb452g4VY by @zackbeauchamp — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
Exhibit B: the founder of the John Birch Society, Robert Welch, calling anti-Nazism a kind of liberal authoritarianism https://t.co/vgjWLx4sXm https://t.co/cvdIDmfGm8 — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
My considered view from reading literature like this is that the US Constitution: 1) was a brilliant innovation in 1787 2) is outdated but still would work fine if the US weren't so deeply divided 3) cannot deal with highly ideological parties, especially one radical faction — PolitiTweet.org
