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 …
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@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 …Show this thread -
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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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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Look at this guy, acting like he doesn't min-max the composition of his friends for maximum DPS
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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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Wait. Why would that be so? (This is a serious question.)
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conservatives can be family, no problem, but friends?? they'd better be some charming ass conservatives
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