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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Hey, Jeet -- does this mean you're against blacklists? Because with all of your tweeting about bed-wetting centrists worried about losing their phony-balloney jobs, I kind of thought you maybe were okay with them, provided the left made and enforced the lists.
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If there were blacklists I'd be against them. But in fact there is nothing comparable to the large scale state-sponsored ideological purge of the 1940s and 1950s. Just a few squabbles about elite jobs.
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This was specifically about govt employees though? Not academics, journalists etc. Purging of political adversaries from govt jobs was standard pre civil service. It seems to be in a grey area of illiberalism. A bad thing on many grounds. But not quite the same as the
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cleansing of academia and the press and other parts of civil society? I don't think Chait liking Truman, despite this, invalidates his concern about illiberalism.
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