If you find the prospect of a centrist opinion writer and editor visiting a liberal democracy to be “frankly terrifying,” I do not trust you to cogently differentiate between that which you disagree with and that which is actually dangerous.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1026691991441002498 …
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Replying to @conor64
I have to say, Conor, I find this disappointing given all you've written about needing to engage with people of differing points of view. It seems you only want to extend hermeneutical charity to the likes of Williamson & Peterson.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
You weren’t “engaging”—I took your words as earnest and you said I was wrong, you were “joking.” In other words, you were being a snarky bully. I’m against that. It’s a mode that has already driven a lot of good people off this godforsaken website.
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And if you reread my Kevin Williamson piece you will see that I objected to when he behaved that way on Twitter. As I objected for years to talk radio hosts who operated in that mode.
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Replying to @conor64
Fair enough! I hold to the opposite idea (that in the present moment, mockery of the powerful, including powerful journalists, is a good thing). We'll have to agree to disagree.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
And yet it’s only powerful women *who aren’t leftists* that journalist Twitter feels justified in treating this way—that is, extended, constant mocking and bullying of which you are only a tiny part (though well aware of its existence and capable of groking the cumulative burden)
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Again, fair enough. I agree that we should be cautious given the special abuse women receive (although would dispute that leftist women don't receive abuse, based on experience of some friends).
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