Samuel Johnson in 1776: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" Close reader Eric Alterman: "Samuel Johnson is expressing contempt for liberty by criticizing hypocrisy of slave-owning American revolutionaries." https://twitter.com/Eric_Alterman/status/1405128990243840000 …
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I thought calling out the hypocrisy was the only context that made sense for Jeet's tweet. Maybe Jeet could've added a few "supposedly"s to make it 100% clear that many free speechers don't actually hew to their stated principles, but come on, it's a medium built on terse wit.
End of conversation
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As a long-time watcher of Fox News, Eric may have witnessed this type in action once or twice?
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