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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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    4. 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.
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    5. 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 …

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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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      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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        1. 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. Alexandre Denis‏ @lexandre_denis 15 Jun 2020
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          or Kent State...

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        2. pritesh patel‏ @pdog2009 15 Jun 2020
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          The Pentagon was against sending the troops. Only Trump, Cotton and Taibbi liked the idea.

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        1. PeterDavies‏ @PeterMDavies80 15 Jun 2020
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          Hell it isn't the experience with just American police over the last month

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        1. Reginald Glenn  ♨️‏ @Britonomist 15 Jun 2020
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          The argument was that it wasn’t clear they would have been worse than the NYPD.

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        2. Maier Amsden‏ @maier_amsden 15 Jun 2020
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          This completely misses Taibbi's point (as does most of the other criticisms). Taibbi isn't defending Cotton's ideas. Taibbi is defending people who think we should be able to *hear those ideas and *openly debate them.

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        3. Keith Bloomquist‏ @kdb150 15 Jun 2020
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          Oh, so then Taibbi has just set up a strawman to knock over.

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        1. Louise, please  ☮ 🌻‏ @jerseymouse 15 Jun 2020
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          Especially when we saw peaceful protesters being attacked, unprovoked, with our own eyes live on TV

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        1. Nancy N Ogg‏ @Ohdarkthirty1 15 Jun 2020
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          One point the military was FOREVER making in Vietnam was that you couldn't tell civilians from insurgents. Christ, they had "acceptable civilian kill ratios"!

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