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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Jun 2020

      1. The newsroom uprising against James Bennet at the New York Times, along with media controversies about racism, has led the the usual handwringing from the usual suspects about PC, SJWs, safe spaces, blah blah blah. A new entry into this discourse is @mtaibbi.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Jun 2020

      2. In a lengthy blog post, Taibbi argues that Tom Cotton's "Send in the Troops" op ed is being unfairly misrepresented (Cotton only meant using Troops against looters and criminals, not against peaceful protestors). This is an idea that deserves to be debated.pic.twitter.com/aBsRY6KmqY

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Jun 2020

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Tom Cotton

      3. Strangely, people who say "Cotton's ideas deserve to be debated" are unwilling to actually Cotton's ideas are. None of them, as far as I can tell, comment on this tweet, posted before the op ed:https://twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/1267448171636174848 …

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      Tom CottonVerified account @TomCottonAR
      Anarchy, rioting, and looting needs to end tonight. If local law enforcement is overwhelmed and needs backup, let's see how tough these Antifa terrorists are when they're facing off with the 101st Airborne Division. We need to have zero tolerance for this destruction.
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Jun 2020

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Tom Cotton

      4. "No quarter" means "kill them all." Insurrectionists means "this is a civil war." The Times op ed was a whitewashed version of Cotton's idea, one that allowed himself to present a respectable face to polite company.https://twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/1267448171636174848 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      Tom CottonVerified account @TomCottonAR
      Anarchy, rioting, and looting needs to end tonight. If local law enforcement is overwhelmed and needs backup, let's see how tough these Antifa terrorists are when they're facing off with the 101st Airborne Division. We need to have zero tolerance for this destruction.
      10:03 AM - 15 Jun 2020
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Jun 2020

          Jeet Heer Retweeted Tom Cotton

          5. Of course Cotton walked back the tweet & said "no quarter" just means being hardline. But was was using the eliminationist language commonly used to egg on a massacre, i.e. "Jakarta is coming"https://twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/1267459561675468800 …

          Jeet Heer added,

          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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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Jun 2020

          6. Also it's amazing that Taibbi accepts at face value the idea that the army would only go after criminals, not protestors. Is the American military really skilled at distinguishing between civilians & military targets? Is that the experience of Vietnam, Iraq & Afghanistan?

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Jun 2020

          7. More thoughts here on pundits who would rather focus on their culture war fetish than on an American Senator using eliminationist rhetoric against American civilians.https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/taibbi-cotton-free-speech/ …

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        1. sam‏ @theokmullins 15 Jun 2020
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          this fundamentally invalidates taibbi’s point that he wasn’t calling for violence and therefore the op-ed wasn’t out of line.

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        1. Michael Bolton‏ @michaelbolton 15 Jun 2020
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          I don't understand why my liberal friends seem more interested in making sure that James Bennett loses his job, and less interested in making sure that Tom Cotton never works again.

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        1. Nicholas Copeland‏ @nick_copel 15 Jun 2020
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          yes. and people who study counterinsurgency will tell you that when you designate certain categories of people as killable, those categories invariably expand to include everyone in the subordinated populations out of which protests and social movements emerge

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