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    1. corey robin‏Verified account @CoreyRobin Mar 12

      When liberals and leftists debate the question of cancel culture, they take the position that @jbouie does here. I think they're right. Yet many of those people also claim we live at a moment of unprecedented authoritarian/ fascist peril. Seems hard to square those two positions.pic.twitter.com/Cpsyp4CPrP

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Mar 12
      Replying to @CoreyRobin @jbouie

      ??? Seems perfectly possible to believe in, say, Weimar Germany in 1930 that you lived in a society of unprecedented freedom and also that it was under peril from a rising authoritarian movement. There's no inconsistency.

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        2. Andrew Young‏ @SpartanVTyranny Mar 12
          Replying to @HeerJeet @CoreyRobin @jbouie

          Probably easier to bite the bullet and just say Bouie is wrong. We have a lot of ground where we're free, but talk in a way that actually threatens capital and you'd best prepare for the worst.

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        3. Andre AZ‏ @arnetzargarian Mar 13
          Replying to @SpartanVTyranny @HeerJeet and

          I wonder if capital doesn't feel threatened by discourse anymore. Maybe capital sees how difficult it is for people to actually organize and take action, and realizes that these forums are far more likely to reinforce the status quo than lead to change

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        2. David Rafferty‏ @portusprince Mar 12
          Replying to @HeerJeet @CoreyRobin @jbouie

          Also that while authoritarianism often goes along with repressing free expression, it doesn’t have to. It just has to control the levers of power. And despite what many on here seem to think, talking and power are not the same thing.

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        3. Dr Ruth Marshall is Kicking Against the Pricks‏ @wtfis2bdone Mar 13
          Replying to @portusprince @HeerJeet and

          Lol.

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        1. Rick McAlexander, PhD‏ @The_RickMc Mar 13
          Replying to @HeerJeet @CoreyRobin @jbouie

          Yes and this seems like, pretty obvious? Like I didn't have to think that hard about it?

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        1. Rhys Needham‏ @Rhys_Needham Mar 13
          Replying to @HeerJeet @CoreyRobin @jbouie

          It was a major part of the ethos of the time, really.

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        1. Rhys Needham‏ @Rhys_Needham Mar 13
          Replying to @HeerJeet @CoreyRobin @jbouie

          There was a weaker, odder, more paranoid version in the 1960s and 1970s, too, wasn't there?

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        2. chroot gaoler‏ @flyoverelitist Mar 13
          Replying to @HeerJeet @CoreyRobin @jbouie

          I think a lot of confusion arises from (deliberate?) tone deafness to subtext. The cancel culture panic isn’t about “I can’t express a controversial opinion.”, it’s “People shouldn’t be allowed to dissent this particular view.” It’s totalitarian thinking.

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        3. chroot gaoler‏ @flyoverelitist Mar 13
          Replying to @flyoverelitist @HeerJeet and

          Speech has never been freer and that’s the problem.

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        1. Discorso Inferno‏ @ilpomodoro2 Mar 13
          Replying to @HeerJeet @CoreyRobin @jbouie

          The main difference is trump didn’t target white people who write for the Atlantic!

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