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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 May 2021

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Jennifer Doleac

      Historical McCarthyism actually had a huge impact on economics: purging of many left economists & (more subtly) move of discipline away from concrete political economy towards (supposedly apolitical) mathematical modelling. It was more than just people being snarky on twitter.https://twitter.com/jenniferdoleac/status/1398684912610390016 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac
      Replying to @jenniferdoleac @kearney_melissa @tylercowen
      I was just talking w a friend who went so far as to call current Twitter conversations about econ policy akin to McCarthyism -- many people are afraid to share their decidedly-centrist views publicly for fear of being "cancelled."
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 May 2021

      "People are being mean on social media" is increasingly the preferred centrist way of delegitimizing people for expressing anodyne sentiments like "full employment is good" or "bombing children to smithereens is not good."

      1:37 PM - 29 May 2021
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        2. Nope nuh uh‏ @nope_nuh_uh 30 May 2021
          Replying to @puro_gringo @HeerJeet

          That’s cute that you believe that...and not a little naive, too.

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        1. Eλf Sternberg‏ @elfsternberg 29 May 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          "What you said is probably true, but you say it in such a harsh way that it turns me off, therefore it turns everyone off, therefore I will not put any effort into influencing policy in this area." Every centrist ever.

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        2. Ric Caric‏ @riccaric 29 May 2021
          Replying to @jeffmcnamee @HeerJeet

          Like the Bernie left, "Centrists" (i.e., moderate Dems sympathetic to conservatives) were nearly wiped out in 2020. The center-left of Biden, Pelosi, Harris, and Warren is dominant even if hard to locate in political space.

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        1. talking to computer‏ @AlTag 29 May 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Lying isn’t good either

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        2. Leroy Jenkem‏ @MST3KNKOTB 29 May 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          worked against bernie

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        3. *WASH YOUR HANDS* locally sourced (((wheatjerm)))‏ @MrJeremyM 29 May 2021
          Replying to @MST3KNKOTB @HeerJeet

          if we had full employment soon enough there'd be a bootstrap shortage then what

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