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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Sep 2018

    1. So this @weeklystandard profile of Dinesh D'Souza (by @aliceblloyd is very good & really illuminates his trajectory:https://www.weeklystandard.com/alice-b-lloyd/american-politics-has-caught-up-with-right-wing-populist-dinesh-dsouza …

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Sep 2018

        2. The key thing @aliceblloyd gets right is that D'Souza's real formation came as an undergraduate editor of the Dartmouth Review, when he pioneered a kind of right-wing prank culture.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Sep 2018

        3. It's important to underscore how terrible D'Souza was as an undergraduate: outing gay students, publishing articles in minstrel show dialect to mock Black students, etc.pic.twitter.com/y8bobOlFNw

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      4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Sep 2018

        4. It's tempting to say D'Souza started as a buffoon and was always a buffoon. But it's a little more complicated. He had period in the late 1980s and early 1990s where he pretended to be an intellectual.

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      5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Sep 2018

        5. Now I think @aliceblloyd probably has a higher opinion of D'Souza's anti-PC book Illiberal Education than I do. It's his best book but it's still suffers the same problems of all anti-PC literature (anecdotal, one-sided, disregarding full spectrum of academic life etc.)

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      6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Sep 2018

        6. Still! With Illiberal Education got some centrist and center-right publications to take him seriously: the Atlantic, the American Scholar, TNR (alas!). He was still a simulacrum-intellectual but gained surprising respectability.

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      7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Sep 2018

        7. But D'Souza couldn't keep up the act long. You can take the boy out of Dartmouth Review but not Dartmouth Review out of the book. He quickly reverted to form, as I note here: https://newrepublic.com/minutes/151305/dinesh-dsouza-right-wing-troll-since-college …

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      8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Sep 2018

        8. But any study of how trolling came to be the dominant lingo of the American right has to give pride of place to undergraduate newspapers like The Dartmouth Review (and their predecessor The American Spectator). That's the true incubation ward.

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      1. weisacre‏ @weisacre 19 Sep 2018
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        Mental illness is a trajectory?

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      1. Jon Ehrens‏ @jwehrens 19 Sep 2018
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        whut??pic.twitter.com/IlkwXG3BZn

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      1. int%rmitt]nt sig^al. ...~!...))ACK.n34|&m4c(*.NAK.‏ @Auld_Mac 19 Sep 2018
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        Puerile - the most salient word used in describing the profoundly misguided products of the [very long comma delineated string of very foul descriptors] and delusional @DineshDSouza.

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