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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Jul 2020

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Yascha Mounk

    Bold thread where Yascha Mounk argues that the era of McCarthyism, Jim Crow & the outlawing of homosexuality had more freedom of expression than the present.https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1289333770370203650 …

    Jeet Heer added,

    Yascha MounkVerified account @Yascha_Mounk
    Are Americans more afraid to express their political views than in the past? A lot of people debated that question in the past weeks. A new article @JoinPersuasion has the answer: Americans are three times as likely to self-censor now than in the 1950s. https://www.persuasion.community/p/americans-are-self-censoring-at-record …
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    67 replies 363 retweets 2,397 likes
      1. Nut Bunnies Xtreme Beach Volleyball‏ @nut_bunnies 31 Jul 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Oh so this is what happens to the teens that listen to Sinatra and wistfully say they "were born too late"

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      1. Big Pizza  🍕‏ @EZaketz 31 Jul 2020
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        Is he aware of the 1A litigation of the era..?

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      1. Alex Yablon‏Verified account @AlexYablon 31 Jul 2020
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        Well in fairness, at the time people felt pretty comfortable spewing reactionary hate and suffered no consequences for it

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      2. Unbreakable Peter‏ @Loki1001 31 Jul 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Jeet, my main man, don't you know that Mounk immediately followed it up by claiming anyone who points out just how absurdly wrong his claim is is arguing in bad faith? It's totally bad faith to bring up the Communist Control Act of 1954!

        1 reply 0 retweets 65 likes
      3. Zak Whose Topical Reference Has Expired‏ @zsitter 31 Jul 2020
        Replying to @Loki1001 @HeerJeet

        No need to self-censor when the government does it for you!

        0 replies 0 retweets 24 likes
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      2. Dan Houston‏ @DanDhoust24 31 Jul 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I am not sure what he is trying to do but that letter you signed is a part of it

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      3. AnitaWrites‏ @WritesAnita 1 Aug 2020
        Replying to @DanDhoust24 @HeerJeet

        Yup.pic.twitter.com/o2hhoeS2vV

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      1. JoHo‏ @JHowardBrainMD 31 Jul 2020
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        JoHo Retweeted Best of the Left

        You might enjoy this podcast that is kind of about him.https://twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft/status/1286039976778641413 …

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        Best of the Left @BestOfTheLeft
        @EastSideGadfly It must have been surreal for the council meeting to go viral and now here I am, another stranger with an opinion. Apologies! It's a great case study in the resilience of racism and, spoiler alert, you're not the villain in my telling. https://www.bestoftheleft.com/_1358_how_a_system_of_power_defends_itself_a_case_study …
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      1. Office of the Former President & Massage Parlor‏ @StillNotPHarris 31 Jul 2020
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        Yascha Mounk needs to talk to somewhere who was there.

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      1. Rachel Eastwood 🧡 🖤‏ @RachelIEastwood 31 Jul 2020
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        Are people more afraid to express their shitty bigotry than in the past? YEAH I HOPE SO

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