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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"some of the paratroopers believed that the mission was inappropriate for combat troops ... they were being asked to individually decide …. whether … what they were being asked to do was right or wrong"
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Hi, you can read it here:
@HeerJeet: 1. I'm in sympathy with much of what Ross Douthat writes here (particularly on the corporate uses of… https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1271520529548103681.html … Have a good day.
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Taking the Cotton Op-Ed at face value seems naive to me. The whole thing was a pretext for creating a situation where Federal authority is extended to policing cities. That’s a massive power grab that Cotton shouldn’t be let off the hook for.
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