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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Jun 2020

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Shadi Hamid

      I have friends who are monarchists (in fact, Jacobites -- supporting the Stuarts over the fake-ass House of Windsor), and other friends who are anarcho-capitalists, Trotskyites, etc. So I say with some confidence that what Hamid is advocating is narrow & silly.https://twitter.com/shadihamid/status/1277966905391759367 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      Shadi HamidVerified account @shadihamid
      If you don't have a single conservative (or even a vaguely right-leaning person) among your friends and friends of friends, you're doing something wrong. Or, if you think it's right, then you should at least be straight up about it: It means you're not as open minded as you think
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Jun 2020

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Shadi Hamid

      One problem with Hamid's tweet is the model of friendship that underlies. I'm friends with Jacobites, anarcho-capitalists & Trots not for the sake of some ideal intellectual diversity but because I liked them & usually found out about their politics laterhttps://twitter.com/shadihamid/status/1277966905391759367 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      Shadi HamidVerified account @shadihamid
      If you don't have a single conservative (or even a vaguely right-leaning person) among your friends and friends of friends, you're doing something wrong. Or, if you think it's right, then you should at least be straight up about it: It means you're not as open minded as you think
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Jun 2020

          Jeet Heer Retweeted Shadi Hamid

          But also, as @zachdcarter said: the "intellectual diversity" advocated here is incredibly narrow: center left & centrists befriending center-right (all working for think tanks and mainstream publications). The actual political spectrum is much largerhttps://twitter.com/shadihamid/status/1277966905391759367 …

          Jeet Heer added,

          Shadi HamidVerified account @shadihamid
          If you don't have a single conservative (or even a vaguely right-leaning person) among your friends and friends of friends, you're doing something wrong. Or, if you think it's right, then you should at least be straight up about it: It means you're not as open minded as you think
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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Jun 2020

          Leaving Hamid out of this (because his politics are different) but a lot of chatter about intellectual diversity is about creating an elite united front of liberals & conservatives to fend off supposed extremists. This is the Hofstadter project from late 1940s & it's still bad

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        1. Jonathan Assink‏ @jonassink 30 Jun 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          It's all a matter of degrees, right? I have friends to my right politically, but Hamid's point only has as much meaning as the line you won't cross. Not being friends with Nazis doesn't make me closed minded, and if that's how we're defining open mindedness, it's pretty worthless

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        1. The Specter of Socialism‏ @canuckerrant 30 Jun 2020
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          Look at this guy, acting like he doesn't min-max the composition of his friends for maximum DPS

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        2. Shadi Hamid‏Verified account @shadihamid 30 Jun 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Yes, I agree with the causal arrow here. You become friends with people naturally, but then if it turns out that there isn't much, if any, ideological diversity among said friends, it probably says something about you

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        3. Julian Davis Mortenson‏ @jdmortenson 30 Jun 2020
          Replying to @shadihamid @HeerJeet

          Wait. Why would that be so? (This is a serious question.)

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        1. Just Dustin Harbin‏ @dustinharbin 30 Jun 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          conservatives can be family, no problem, but friends?? they'd better be some charming ass conservatives

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