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    1. Eric Levitz‏ @EricLevitz 8 Jan 2021
      Replying to @jbouie @DavidAstinWalsh

      I think the Nazis who hung my grandmother's 15-year-old sister in the town square were born innocent. I think the myriad familial, communal and social forces that shaped their selves, and turned them into Nazis, did more harm to their souls than it did to those of their victims.

      2 replies 1 retweet 21 likes
    2. Eric Levitz‏ @EricLevitz 8 Jan 2021
      Replying to @EricLevitz @jbouie @DavidAstinWalsh

      I guess I just don't understand why one needs to affirm the existence of free will, and an agency that stands outside of genetics, early childhood experience, social context, and history to hold people accountable for their actions.

      3 replies 0 retweets 16 likes
    3. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie 8 Jan 2021
      Replying to @EricLevitz @DavidAstinWalsh

      It is precisely because of this narrative of white innocence that stymies efforts to hold people accountable.

      1 reply 3 retweets 58 likes
    4. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie 8 Jan 2021
      Replying to @jbouie @EricLevitz @DavidAstinWalsh

      Not saying you are doing this, but “this white woman who joined a mob to overturn Congress was poisoned by propaganda” obscures the extent to which there is real investment and belief that is not simply the product of Fox News et al.

      4 replies 2 retweets 52 likes
    5. Eric Levitz‏ @EricLevitz 8 Jan 2021
      Replying to @jbouie @DavidAstinWalsh

      Sure. Obviously, Fox News reflects a pre-existing demand for reactionary, anti-black accounts of political reality that derive from social forces that long predate Rupert Murdoch. So I'll concede that my tweet was a bit glib in that respect...

      6 replies 1 retweet 16 likes
    6. Eric Levitz‏ @EricLevitz 8 Jan 2021
      Replying to @EricLevitz @jbouie @DavidAstinWalsh

      I think that people must be held accountable for their actions. I think all Americans have a duty to unmake our nation's racial hierarchy, and pay recompense to its victims...

      2 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
    7. Eric Levitz‏ @EricLevitz 8 Jan 2021
      Replying to @EricLevitz @jbouie @DavidAstinWalsh

      But I don't see how insisting that individual evil derives from social context and experience rather than from some essential feature of the evildoer -- an agency that emanates from within, undetermined by space or time -- forbids accountability...

      2 replies 0 retweets 14 likes
    8. Leo Casey‏ @LeoECasey 8 Jan 2021
      Replying to @EricLevitz @jbouie @DavidAstinWalsh

      I think that you are positing a dichotomy that elides the excluded middle. We do make history and have agency, even if we do not make history as we please or exercise pure individual agency. 1/

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    9. Leo Casey‏ @LeoECasey 8 Jan 2021
      Replying to @LeoECasey @EricLevitz and

      Carried to its logical conclusion, your argument would require us to excuse Trump himself from responsibility for Wednesday's insurrection. 2/

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    10. Leo Casey‏ @LeoECasey 8 Jan 2021
      Replying to @LeoECasey @EricLevitz and

      I think it is one thing to argue that there are others who bear a greater responsibility for what happened Wednesday than the woman who died -- Trump, Hawley, Cruz, McCarthy, Scalise, for starters. 2/

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Jan 2021
      Replying to @LeoECasey @EricLevitz and

      yes, I think the focus on punishment and containment has to be on the generals of white supremacy (Trump & crew) and not on the foot soldiers. Unfortunately USA system is designed to come down foot soldiers & ignore generals.

      8:12 AM - 8 Jan 2021
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        1. Irfantastic 🌹‏ @IrfanHAli79 8 Jan 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @LeoECasey and

          This thread reminds me of @ContraPoints video on Justice. Worth watching if you haven't seen it: https://youtu.be/smQsfNw_7V4 

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