1. in terms of these "should they be fired for their tweets & bad opinions" controversies, the one I remain most conflicted about -- I mean genuinely torn -- is Quinn Norton.
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7. The question then becomes (if we accept the most charitable possible view of Norton) whether being super-naive is firing offense. When you're job includes writing on politics (as she was going to) I think it is.
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Ok but doesn’t naïveté connote a level of privileged insulation that is dangerous to magnify
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i do NOT think you should use their language and ideas but not sure engagement wouldn't result in someone changing their mind.
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Let me just say her success in de-Nazification was on par with the CIA after World War II.
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Let me just suggest that Norton's engagement with Weev didn't follow the more successful pattern of de-radicalization we see in other cases involving less naive interlocutors.
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Have you done much reading about the strategies employed by the people in Life After Hate?
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Tweet #7 addresses that point
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7. Since people have raised the issue, I think there's a distinction between serious attempts at re-radicalization through rigorous engagement and Norton's more (let's say) casual, ad hoc, & dilettante approach.https://twitter.com/agranato42/status/1025164524075315201 …
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8. I want to re-iterate that I'm genuinely torn on Norton case. I can see arguments for both sides on this. I thought one solution was Times hire her but as a reporter, not editorial voice.
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