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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Jun 2020

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Jonathan Chait

      The reporting in this story about Shor is important and what happened to him is a travesty. Almost all narratives about PC are hysterical centrist bed-wetting, but in this case there is a genuine wrong.https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1271076001615929346 …

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      Jonathan ChaitVerified account @jonathanchait
      The still-vital case for liberalism in a radical age https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/case-for-liberalism-tom-cotton-new-york-times-james-bennet.html …
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Jun 2020

      I'll add that one problem with PC debates is that the people who write about them (on both sides) want to construct grand narratives, when in fact to do justice you have to get into the weeds of each case (which is time-consuming and tedious).

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Jun 2020

      Heterogenous stories get lumped together, which doesn't really help understanding. In the current spate of stories, Shor, Fang & the James Bennet defenestration are very different stories that are being treated as if they were the same.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Jun 2020

      With Shor, a clear travesty. With Fung you have an excellent reporter who has a tendency to sometimes be shallow & knee-jerk on twitter about sensitive topics. The actual end result (an apology & promise to do better) doesn't seem out of line.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Jun 2020

      Jeet Heer Retweeted

      I agree with Yglesias here that the use of HR is less than ideal. In general the co-option of anti-racism by HR & management consultants (i.e. "White Fragility") is deeply problematic. But it's a consequence of worker weakness more than anything. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1272634054479839234 …

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Jun 2020

      I understand why people find the rhetoric of safetyism in these cases troubling. But this is rooted in labor law -- complaints about safety are one of the few areas where workers have a little bit of leverage over bosses.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Jun 2020

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Osita Nwanevu

      Absolutely the case that there is tremendous over-reaction & bed-wetting (all the talk of "cultural revolution" & "twitter Robbespierres" etc.). a function of people afraid of losing their phoney baloney jobs & status that comes with it.https://twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/status/1272636212696801288 …

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      Osita Nwanevu @OsitaNwanevu
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      I mean, the response has still been disproportionate unless you believe controversies involving half a handful of people within elite and liberal political media say something meaningful about the survivability of liberalism in American society.
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Jun 2020

          My larger argument with @jonathanchait is that it's not true that ideological firings over non-conformity are antithetical to liberalism. The biggest ideological purge in USA history took place under Chait's hero Harry Truman. We need to do better than liberalism.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Jun 2020

          Anyways, more on this here:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/taibbi-cotton-free-speech/ …

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        2. Михайло Ska Tov‏ @m_s_ska_tov 15 Jun 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Yeah - I think the status point is vitally important in this, because *that* is what the stakes really are. The interests at play are public ones around the legacy of the New York Times, and its peers, which the readership weighs in on. Not a handful of jobs.

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        3. Михайло Ska Tov‏ @m_s_ska_tov 15 Jun 2020
          Replying to @m_s_ska_tov @HeerJeet

          The institutions want to preserve their status, which makes them exceptionally sensitive to public pressure, particularly from sources that represent the values that they hold in high esteem.

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        1. Scottynx‏ @Scottynx3 15 Jun 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          An average white woman filmed calling police on a black person for shaky reasons is liable to be fired from her job after social media firestorm. Even if they work at McDonalds. Do you agree this purely race-based punishment is just? It is not just a elites in danger.

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        1. YimbyAlexandria‏ @YimbyA 15 Jun 2020
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          Someone losing a job is not the same as being guillotined, thank goodness. It's still pretty serious. Even if it happens to an academic or journalist. Its also serious when Jewish orgs have to create lists of campuses where an 18 yo won't be harassed.

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        1. Belief respecter‏ @Bugs_Meany 15 Jun 2020
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          Belief respecter Retweeted Jeet Heer

          "losing their phoney baloney jobs and status" Yes, those phoney baloney jobs and status which people like yourself openly covet.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1271222365473538048 …

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          Jeet HeerVerified account @HeerJeet
          The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced the New York Times should let me run their opinion page. I can consolidate the genuinely positive achievements of the Bennet era but avoid the reflexive contrarianism that did him in.
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        1. Sweet Child‏ @sweetchildopine 15 Jun 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Seems to me like the people who consistently hold that all this is overreaction also happen to be those least likely to have any heterodox opinions relative to preferences of whatever we’re calling this online consensus (successor ideology I guess?)

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