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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Jan 2020

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Andrew Sullivan

      If people pass along a piece of folklore the factual basis of which is "pretty much unknowable" then it is fair to describe that folklore as a myth. If it is about racial differences, then it is a racist myth. Sullivan can't get that through his putatively superior skull.https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1214265385987563520 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      Andrew Sullivan @sullydish
      Replying to @nhannahjones @conor64 @AdamSerwer
      She never responded. So I have to assume she just made that up. Since when is it "racist" to privately ask a New York Times writer for evidence for a factual assertion? It's called "fact-checking." And I was curious, since it seems to me that this is pretty much unknowable./3
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Jan 2020

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Andrew Sullivan

      "Why is it 'racist' of me to ask the black journalist lady how she's sure black men don't have giant donkey dongs? I'm just asking questions and checking facts!"https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1214265385987563520 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      Andrew Sullivan @sullydish
      Replying to @nhannahjones @conor64 @AdamSerwer
      She never responded. So I have to assume she just made that up. Since when is it "racist" to privately ask a New York Times writer for evidence for a factual assertion? It's called "fact-checking." And I was curious, since it seems to me that this is pretty much unknowable./3
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        1. Shelton Bumgarner‏ @sheltgarner 6 Jan 2020
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        1. Matthew‏ @Roland00Address 6 Jan 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Why is Sullivan so bad at Epistemology?

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        1. Matt Wisnefske - a fungible token.‏ @mwisnefske 6 Jan 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Let's recall that Mr Sullivan was CONVINCED that Sarah Palin was not, in fact, her youngest child's mother... a complete non-story he obsessed over for months.

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        1. Darrel “#BlackHistoryMonth is every month” Plant‏ @darrelplant 6 Jan 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9lXDIBLluM …

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Jan 2020

          pic.twitter.com/pC5vzVTWit

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        1. Big Poppy‏ @M_DiPaola 6 Jan 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          "She never responded. So I have to assume she just made that up." that's not how fact-checking works

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        1. WORLD PREMIERE JUNE 3!‏ @garrt 6 Jan 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          This reminds me of two meaningful passages from Eric Lott's book "Love And Theft" (1993) about blackface minstrelsy (the second image is from p.9):pic.twitter.com/diYhOa41ed

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        1. Fishy Catfish‏ @CatfishFishy 6 Jan 2020
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          Anthropologist Vincent Sarich used world cross-country championships to calculate that Kenyan runners outperformed all other nations by 1,700-fold...every single one of those athletes was from the minority Kalenjin tribe—source population: five million."pic.twitter.com/gqd06yVVho

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        1. Joel Pelletier‏ @joel_pelletier 6 Jan 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Surely he knows the answer to this question himself, at the least anecdotally. #notracist

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