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    1. 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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    2. 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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    3. 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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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Jun 2020

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      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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    5. 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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    6. 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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      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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    7. 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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    8. YimbyAlexandria‏ @YimbyA 15 Jun 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet @jonathanchait

      Is there really a controversy that Mccarthyism was illiberal?

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Jun 2020
      Replying to @YimbyA @jonathanchait

      People like Chait see McCarthyism as purely a Republican thing and don't realize that Truman created the infrastructure that made it possible.

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    10. YimbyAlexandria‏ @YimbyA 15 Jun 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet @jonathanchait

      You can argue over who was responsible for McCarthyism and if Truman should be a hero. That doesn't mean Mccarthyism was not illiberal. FDR bears some blame for internment of Japanese Americans, but that internment is still illiberal.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Jun 2020
      Replying to @YimbyA @jonathanchait

      Okay, if you want to talk in principle, then I'll say that on a philosophical level liberal commitment to free speech has always been circumscribed. Locke believe in no speech for Catholics, JS Mill in no speech for colonized peoples.

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        2. YimbyAlexandria‏ @YimbyA 15 Jun 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jonathanchait

          Again, that's individuals, not principles. Liberalism has to grow. Its good that it has. That does not justify a retreat from liberalism.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Jun 2020
          Replying to @YimbyA @jonathanchait

          If liberalism doesn't mean what either liberal thinkers (Locke, Mill) argue or what liberal politicians (Wilson, FDR, Truman) do, then what is liberalism? I feel like you are creating a decontextualized liberalism that has never existed.

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