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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 25

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Jonathan Chait

    Isn't using the coercive power of the state to limit speech actual censorship as against various norm shifts in civil society (which can be disputed & are a natural part of a pluralist, organically evolving liberal society).https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1486143233541480451 …

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    Jonathan ChaitVerified account @jonathanchait
    McWhorter's column, which I encourage everybody to read, does a good job of balancing the different threats from right-wing illiberalism (which operated through elected office) and left-wing-illiberalism (which operates in non-elected spaces, like media, non-profits and schools.) https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1486127830207500292 …
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      1. Lyndon Hood‏ @lyndonhood Jan 25
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Also, I am from New Zealand and I remember the Dixie Chicks

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      1. Бди!‏ @grapesmoker Jan 25
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        actually censorship is when people make fun of me online

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      2. El Cid poem liker‏ @EnBuenora Jan 25
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        'isn't all censorship really the same when you think about it, whether it's from the government forbidding you from saying something or just people not liking what you're saying'pic.twitter.com/YlOqk3yxkx

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      3. Бди!‏ @grapesmoker Jan 25
        Replying to @EnBuenora @HeerJeet

        posting pigpoopballs.gif at me is actually violence

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      2. Steve Negus‏ @SteveNegusMasr Jan 25
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Right wing illiberalism tends mostly to restrict itself to what can be said in government or publically financed institutions, though. Ie, the voters are regulating the platforms that they finance.

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      3. Steve Negus‏ @SteveNegusMasr Jan 25
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        (Note that I'm referring to "censorship" by legislators here. The issuing of death threats against people for their speech seems to be a lot more prevalent in certain right wing subcultures than in any left-associated ones.)

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      1. Funky Bi Guy‏ @angryblackbiguy Jan 25
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        Gave the game away by mentioning McWhorter.

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      1. 2022 is Making it Hard to be Hopeful  ⚾️ 🍻 🧶 🪡‏ @Bethrich52 Jan 25
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        One would think Chait & McWhorter know this

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      1. dedc79‏ @de79dc Jan 25
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        Says the guy who signed the Harpers letter

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      2. Richard Goldstein‏ @RichardGold68 Jan 25
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        This is true (though some may value tolerance more than you). University administrations are also the state. When they attack speech from the left it holds the same state-based threat to speech you deplore. Unless you have some other principal to apply to that arm of the state.

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      3. CincinnatiFats‏ @CincinnatiFats Jan 25
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        Harvard isn’t the state dog

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