I'm not providing any new evidence of the actual pattern here, and if @jonathanchait hasn't been persuaded by the evidence people like @JeffreyASachs have offered in the past, he's not going to be persuaded by me.
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But if he has views on the "why such passionate intensity?" question that I meant to be asking before the RTs blew up, I'd definitely be curious.
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I've replied to these arguments repeatedly. 1. For my original piece, I spoke with several (liberal) academics and journalists who described a sharp atmospheric change around 2014:http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/01/not-a-very-pc-thing-to-say.html …
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2. Again, there is no free speech crisis on campus, or anywhere in America, because we have a robust First Amendment. "Free speech" misdefines the phenomenon. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/the-right-is-worse-than-the-left-on-free-speech-so-what.html …pic.twitter.com/K3p6Km6GYj
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It is partly a good thread. But still, as a lefty, I have great fun telling rightwingers that their children will be brainwashed leftwards on the campus - come home w/ Che Guevara t shirts - and nothing will stop our evil plans! It riles em up. It is clean fun.
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