The transition from Soviet dissent crushing to "Twitter has been used as a platform..." is lovely in its context collapsing. Also we had an analogous 1950s period where civil society, employment conditional on loyalty oaths, etc. destroyed political disagreement: McCarthyism.
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Replying to @rortybomb @lionel_trolling and
THAT. you seriously have to be trying rreaaaaallllyyyy hard to paint this as a "soviet" problem.
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Replying to @sarahljaffe @rortybomb and
right? “cancel culture” is practically an american tradtion, from the alien and sedition acts to the slavery gag rule to the espionage act. to the extent that it’s worth writing about, it should be placed in its proper context as a homegrown phenomenon
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Replying to @jbouie @rortybomb and
so much more fun to point the finger outward and have zero power analysis that way you can make cool faux-Soviet Realist graphics
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Replying to @sarahljaffe @rortybomb and
maybe i should write this column. “Canceling: An American Tradition (tied to anxieties about power, influence, and democratic accountability)”
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Replying to @jbouie @sarahljaffe and
Yes, do it! Probably all the scholarship about paranoia and conspiracy theories and the American revolution would be relevant
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Replying to @lionel_trolling @sarahljaffe and
wait, i know some of this scholarship as it relates to the french revolution but i am unfamiliar with it as it relates to the early american republic
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Replying to @jbouie @sarahljaffe and
ah theres very cool stuff by Woods and the other guy, I will dig it up now
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Replying to @lionel_trolling @jbouie and
Yeah, Bailyn and Wood have the goods but also worth looking at
@notjessewalker's book on conspiracy theories (which emphasizes, contra Hofstadter, how they have been pervasive on elite levels including centrist elites).1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet @lionel_trolling and
Wood's stuff on this is worth reading (and sure, read mine too), but Bailyn is the man here. THE IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION has the best discussion of Revolution-era conspiracy theorizing.
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I actually think Bailyn goes too far in this direction by making the American revolutionaries seem slightly unhinged, but yes, definitely the key work.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @lionel_trolling and
We all get a little unhinged in revolutionary times, comrade.
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Replying to @notjessewalker @lionel_trolling and
True. But Bailyn also has an odd Tory streak in him. His bio of Thomas Hutchinson is very covertly sympathetic to loyalism.
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