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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Oct 2021

    Jeet Heer Retweeted David 2022-RELATED PUN Walsh

    Good thread. One thing that occurs to me is that arguments for nuanced contextual understanding of Jefferson are important but they rest on a kind of moral relativism that conservatives otherwise resist.https://twitter.com/DavidAstinWalsh/status/1453857028053643301 …

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    David 2022-RELATED PUN Walsh @DavidAstinWalsh
    I’m (temporarily) back to live-tweet a YAF “Defending Thomas Jefferson” event here at UVA featuring this university’s, uh, illustrious alum and NATIONAL REVIEW editor Rich Lowry and some Texas congressman I’ve never heard of.
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      1. Habsburger no mayo extra cheese‏ @Over9000ft 28 Oct 2021
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        National Review? not resisting too much.pic.twitter.com/UzRXdMdcTh

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      1. Falstaff’s Sorrowful Refrain‏ @courage_my_word 28 Oct 2021
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        Also, Rich Lowry really epitomizes the way unremarkable, dim mediocrities can surf the wingnut welfare wave to positions of national intellectual prominence.

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      1. Will Thomas, MLS‏ @caribouwireless 28 Oct 2021
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        There are few things more fascinating than people attempting to give nuanced contextual understanding of a man who enslaved his own children born of his wife's enslaved half-sister, whom he also held in slavery. And who was contemporaneously condemned for it.

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      2. nothings monstered‏ @nothingsmonstrd 28 Oct 2021
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        "Cultural relativism for me, but not for thee" is the kind of cultural relativism that conservatives can get behind.

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      3. Matthew‏ @Roland00Address 28 Oct 2021
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        EXACTLY!

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      1. David 2022-RELATED PUN Walsh‏ @DavidAstinWalsh 28 Oct 2021
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        Excellent point.

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      1. Matthew‏ @Roland00Address 28 Oct 2021
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        I argue it is precisely what Conservatives want, they want a Moral Relativism so they do not have to examine history, myths, and sacred heroes. Do not think too hard for suffering is the sole origin of consciousness per Dostoevsky, thinking may lead to negation!

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      1. Bryan M. Santin‏ @BMSantin 28 Oct 2021
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        True because post45 conservatives have tended to use ready-to-hand intellectual tools not to win academic debates, but to win cultural arguments. Either strategic moral essentialism or strategic moral relativism depending on the context & which audience they are signaling.

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