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    1. Jonathan Chait‏Verified account @jonathanchait 21 Jul 2021

      Jonathan Chait Retweeted Chris Hayes

      Alternatively, there are people on both the far left and the far right who don't care about free speech norms.https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1417904417395908608 …

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      Chris HayesVerified account @chrislhayes
      This is…nuts and obviously unconstitutional and obviously (for the millionth time) gives lie to the notion that the crusade against so called “cancel culture” has anything to do with the defense of principles like free speech and freedom of association. https://twitter.com/SenatorLankford/status/1417813412395077632 …
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Jul 2021
      Replying to @jonathanchait

      What about liberals who don't care about free speech norms -- for example the Cold War liberals who enabled McCarthyism, spied on MLK, and used the FBI to attack the Panthers and the anti-war left?

      3 replies 2 retweets 32 likes
    3. Chris Golding‏ @_Chris_Golding_ 21 Jul 2021
      Replying to @HeerJeet @jonathanchait

      I mean, they're mostly dead. So ...

      2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Jul 2021
      Replying to @_Chris_Golding_ @jonathanchait

      Okay, do you think Obama was standing up for free speech when his administration fired Shirley Sherrod?

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    5. Chris Golding‏ @_Chris_Golding_ 21 Jul 2021
      Replying to @HeerJeet @jonathanchait

      I don't think liberals have a perfect track record. Generally speaking, in-power parties struggle with this for somewhat obvious reasons. A whataboutism pointing to 70 years ago is ... not intellectually serious, however. Neoconservatism stems from liberal thought at that time.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Jul 2021
      Replying to @_Chris_Golding_ @jonathanchait

      Chait has repeatedly claimed the patrimony of Cold War liberalism including in a piece today!

      12:24 PM - 21 Jul 2021
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        2. Chris Golding‏ @_Chris_Golding_ 21 Jul 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jonathanchait

          Sure, we all live in that environment. And his piece today was certainly correct about the lingering effects of that era on political discourse (on all sides). Your original point was still a specious counter to his response to Hayes, and the current cancel culture war.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Jul 2021
          Replying to @_Chris_Golding_ @jonathanchait

          Chait's argument is that free speech is threatened by the far left and far right. That's a traditional Cold War liberal framing (dating back to Schlesinger's Vital Center). The blind spot is not seeing that centrist liberalism can also be illiberal (as history shows). Specious?

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