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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Jan 2021

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Adam Serwer  🍝

    1. We talk a lot about how the GOP has been cowed by the Trumpists. But an almost equally important dynamic is that many centrist and right-wing institutions have also been cowed by the Trumpists.https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1352985397173903362 …

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    This week alone, people were fired from the New York Times, the Niskanen Center, and Fox News for making conservatives mad https://twitter.com/pwafork/status/1352869308230057984 …
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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Jan 2021

        2. The lazy term "cancel culture" doesn't quite get at the dynamic. This isn't a case of large mobs getting people erased but rather a longstanding pattern where in the name of a notional balance, centrist institutions appease the far right. Goes back to at least McCarthyism.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Jan 2021

        3. The partial silencing of Trump and QAnon is making this dynamic worse. To prove "balance," social media & centrist institutions are now silencing left and liberal speech, including stuff that is completely innocuous.

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      4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Jan 2021

        4. Centrist institutions are congenitally incapable of seeing asymmetrical polarization, so they respond to right-wing outrage with a reflexive swat on "both sides" -- as if there was equality of sides. More here:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-censorship-times-wolfe/ …

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      2. American Sophist‏ @SophistAmerican 25 Jan 2021
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        It's not actually clear that Wolfe was fired because she was singled out by a pro Trump online mob, read Jesse Singal on this, there is likely something we don't know. But other examples you cited are decent evidence for your argument.

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      3. Wharrgarble‏ @Wharrgarble1 25 Jan 2021
        Replying to @SophistAmerican @HeerJeet

        "read Jesse Singal" no

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      2. Marshall Auerback‏ @Mauerback 25 Jan 2021
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        So Will Wilkinson was fired from the Niskanen Center because of the Trumpists?pic.twitter.com/wJKXsGQKnb

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      3. SteelIsReal‏ @Bradorado1 25 Jan 2021
        Replying to @Mauerback @HeerJeet

        The right-wing went all ❄️ over a tweet about VP Pence.

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      1. gs‏ @greggscott 25 Jan 2021
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        Authoritarian/fascist implementation has already occurred to every level of government and nearly every government organization. And media. NYT has been co-opted. This effort is highly organized, well funded and being played for the long game.

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      1. Sam‏ @eutrophy121 25 Jan 2021
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        Americans on right wing media: “Call people names and you shall feel strong.”

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      1. Steve‏ @steve_kid63 25 Jan 2021
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        They aren't cowed. They are racist hateful people.

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