“Contrarianism” is just a slur against people who, annoyingly, simply refuse to fall in line.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1372381103525298176 …
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If you can demonstrate that Hitchens ever said anything he didn’t believe, I’ll concede he was being contrarian.
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Hitchens was a “contrarian” because he disagreed with certain consensus issues on the Left. That’s why I call it a slur.
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But Matt very much has a persona as a contrarian.
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But the contrarianism of Kinsley's TNR and Slate was fundamentally a policy contrarianism.
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Maybe the useful definition here is contrarianism as surprise establishmentarianism; I suspect many people are aware of the “even the liberal New Republic” formulation.
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