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March-eh-teach. Writer @Jacobinmag, co-host @1of200podcast. Faves =/= agree. Author of Yesterday's Man: the Case Against Joe Biden

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    1. Branko Marcetic‏ @BMarchetich 22 Aug 2020

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      On a related note, we need to move away from viewing politics as primarily a realm of individual moral litigation. Just as liberals & leftists would agree it'd be absurd to let Trump win despite Biden's personal moral failings (sexual assault at 50 years of age among them)...https://twitter.com/BMarchetich/status/1297272697919901697 …

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      It's one of those paradoxes of history that a movement against over-policing and mass incarceration has coincided with a hardening of punitive, unforgiving views on the liberal-left. Extra confusing for your kids will be learning those in the 2nd camp backed the goals of the 1st.
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    2. Branko Marcetic‏ @BMarchetich 22 Aug 2020

      ....Stan Frownfelter's use of power, as one eg, to limit abortion rights is, I'd argue, more relevant to this context than any of Aaron Coleman's failings as as an individual. And that's before we get to the fact that he was a child, and that he (unlike Biden) apologised

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    3. Branko Marcetic‏ @BMarchetich 22 Aug 2020

      Even if we decide to make politics purely a contest of who is more personally virtuous (which, I'd argue, would be a nightmare world), we can't weigh things like the Coleman/Frownfelter race without evaluating both parties....

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    4. Branko Marcetic‏ @BMarchetich 22 Aug 2020

      ....Does Frownfelter have a spotless behavioural record as a teen and pre-teen? What about things he might've personally done as a 20-something? Or 30-something? Are we sure he was a saint as recently as his late 50s? Shouldn't those condemning Coleman be curious?

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    5. Branko Marcetic‏ @BMarchetich 22 Aug 2020

      I hope people see the problems with this kind of approach. This would quickly turn politics into a substance-less contest of individual virtue, where we are poring through each other's personal lives from age 10 to last week to find something proving the other person's more awful

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      Branko Marcetic‏ @BMarchetich 22 Aug 2020

      In conclusion, personal conduct is of course an important metric for deciding who to politically support, but it is one metric of many, as the Biden-Trump race reminds us. Treating it as the be-all and end-all is counter-productive, and will be weaponised by the powerful.

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        1. Branko Marcetic‏ @BMarchetich 22 Aug 2020

          Also, again, we are talking about the actions of a child, a child who had a shitty upbringing at that, and he's apologised for those actions. If we dismiss any of this, it undercuts many, many arguments we commonly use to persuade people on, say, mass incarceration.

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