6. Is it true that signatories like Bari Weiss and Cary Nelson manifestly don't believe in free speech for those who express solidarity with Palestinians or are actually Palestinian? Yep. Is it true Yascha Mounk cheerled an anti-democratic coup in Bolivia? Yep.
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7. Is it true that the person who writes those wizard books is an anti-trans bigot who is using free speech as a shield & diversion from criticisms of her horrible views? Yep.
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8. Principles are more important than people. The slave-owing Jefferson writing "all men are created equal" doesn't invalidate the words, rather the words are a useful tool for calling attention to Jefferson's hypocrisy and fighting the social system that he stood on top of.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Maybe "all men are created equal" isn't the same as "It's wrong to cancel an editor who incompetently let a controversial high-stakes editorial go published w/o reading it, and past snafus like an anti-Semitic cartoon and an editorial that has the NYT facing Sarah Palin in court"
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– or did you have someone else in mind when writing this? Would've been pretty easy to link to examples!"pic.twitter.com/ShQBzzUTBk
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I didn't write that and it's specifically stated that the examples are disputed (I in fact thought and said using blind examples was a mistake).
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Editors get fired all the time. In my article I cited other cases involving Harper's. Go to the last link in the thread.
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As I said, I thought the blind examples were a mistake and as it happens the wording is such that they require assent to a specific interpretation of any specific cases. I've argued before in my own name that Cotton op-ed was wrong:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/taibbi-cotton-free-speech/ …
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It’s, uh, pretty hard to get around this fact Jeet. You spoke openly about
@JBennet getting caught in the crossfire at the time. Also you could have just not signed the letter if you didn’t agree with it’s content and references?0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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