1. I'm in sympathy with much of what Ross Douthat writes here (particularly on the corporate uses of diversity) but I think his discussion of the Cotton op-ed suffers from a fatal abstraction from context.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/nyt-tom-cotton-oped-liberalism.html …
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@DouthatNYT needs to address the fact that Cotton called for rules of engagement to be "no quarters" given -- i.e. no prisoners, only killing. That's a war crime.https://twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/1267459561675468800 …Show this thread -
9. The 82nd Airborne was almost deployed. "There was some very deep philosophical discussions about the Constitution." Like I said, life is not a debating club.https://connectingvets.radio.com/articles/new-details-about-the-82nd-military-deployment-to-dc …
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It took me a very long time to grow out of the thought-experiment/idle-speculation/theoretical exercise mindset, and I am very sympathetic to it among young people, but Douthat is not some college kid with delusions of philosopher-king grandeur, he should have learned by now
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I feel like it's also used as a marketing tool to quell critics who say the paper is biased against conservatives. "Look, we publish Tom Cotton!" They do publish them, but not bc they think these views are valid arguments, but bc they provide the NYT cover.
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Empathy = bias. Sounds right.
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This. This is what I have been saying for a while now. For far too many people in punditry and journalism, ideas are treated as if they essentially have no actual real world consequences. It's abstracted and intellectualized to the extreme.
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One of the most unrecognized divides in intellectual public discourse is this one between people for whom ideas have no consequences and those who believe they do.
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It’s the problem with their whole project: it’s all just a game to them - they think they have what they want. A function of perceived privilege...?
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