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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Jun 2020

      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Jun 2020

      2. Here's the crucial context @DouthatNYT misses: the idea of sending in the military to quell the uprising didn't just scare the liberal & post-liberal reporters at the New York Times, it also freaked out the non-liberals in the Pentagon.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Jun 2020

      3. The crucial context is that the president is Trump (a race-baiting know-nothing) rather than, say, Eisenhower or George H.W. Bush or Obama. That's why the Pentagon resisted having troops sent in and that's why many civilians reacted with revulsion.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Jun 2020

      4. You could, if you wanted to, make an argument that in the abstract "sending in the troops" might in some circumstances make sense. But guess what? Life is not a debating club. Our choices take place in a specific moment: sending in the troops would mean Trump with in charge.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Jun 2020

      5. It's not an accident the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff got enormous pushback for participating in Trump's St. John's photo op: the next day he issued a statement reaffirming military's commitment to constitution & later apologized for photo op. https://twitter.com/AYATOMM_COM/status/1271522360600887296/photo/1pic.twitter.com/sJM4Jf686C 

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Jun 2020

      6. @DouthatNYT says Cotton distinguishes between looters & protestors. But, again, this isn't an abstract debate. Cotton isn't the commander-in-chief, Trump is. And Trump, as he did today, uses looters and protesters interchangeably. He'd be in charge if troops sent in.pic.twitter.com/08X1v5vBB8

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Jun 2020

      7. The problem with James Bennet's op-ed page (a problem that Douthat's current column replicates) is that it treated ideas as entertainments: playful exercises for the mind. Thought experiments. Now I think ideas can be playful but not always, not during a mass uprising!

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Jun 2020

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Tom Cotton

      8. Also, @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 …

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      Tom CottonVerified account @TomCottonAR
      And, if necessary, the 10th Mountain, 82nd Airborne, 1st Cav, 3rd Infantry—whatever it takes to restore order. No quarter for insurrectionists, anarchists, rioters, and looters. https://twitter.com/jamiedupree/status/1267456995017318401 …
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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Jun 2020

          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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        1. Funky Bi Guy‏ @angryblackbiguy 12 Jun 2020
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          And, as we know, Trump pardons war criminals

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        1. RealCivicEquality‏ @b9n10nt 12 Jun 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @DouthatNYT

          non-conservatives patiently explain things to conservatives. conservatives strategically remove enough jenga pieces of the argument and then present the toppling structure as evidence of their wiser view. part infinity.

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        1. Jack on a Mac  🔛  📱 💻 🖥 ⌚️ 🇺🇦‏ @jeber 12 Jun 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @DouthatNYT

          So looting is a capital offense in Cotton’s Amerika? Smells like fascism to me.pic.twitter.com/B6PBfCLwGv

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        1. Mary Sadler‏ @Maryc1850Sadler 12 Jun 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @DouthatNYT

          What conservatives don’t understand is average, every day citizens are extremely afraid of the reactionary right wing of the present day. We saw what Bill Barr did at Lafayette Square. Tom Cotton represents a continuation of dangerous Trumpism. We fear these radicals.

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        2. Jon Lasagna-from-a-Peach-Tree-Dish‏ @jblumenfeld100 13 Jun 2020
          Replying to @BillWilde8 @HeerJeet @DouthatNYT

          Cotton is a veteran who knows perfectly well what the phrase means. He claimed he was using it figuratively.

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