This @stevensonseth takedown of knee-jerk leftists caricaturing @tnr and dancing on its grave is quite excellent: http://slate.me/1A3BJt1
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Replying to @saletan
@saletan@jonathanchait Per@HeerJeet, you can't claim TNR as a vital institution AND dismiss its history on race: https://storify.com/JeetHeer1/reckoning-with-the-new-republic-s-racial-history …1 reply 2 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @EricLevitz
@saletan@jonathanchait@HeerJeet Which is to say, its legacy can't be what makes it indispensable but also irrelevant to its present worth1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @EricLevitz
@saletan Why should left liberalism venerate the institution that your own site champions for defeating it: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/12/the_new_republic_s_demise_the_magazine_s_heterodox_liberalism_is_what_made.html …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @EricLevitz
@EricLevitz TNR didn't defeat liberalism. It defended liberalism and criticized leftism. A leftist is someone who can't tell the difference.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @saletan
@saletan@EricLevitz Does liberalism require institutions that are nearly 100% white male? I don't think so myself.1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@EricLevitz Past a certain point, that kind of racial fixation ceases to be awareness and becomes blindness to all else.3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
@saletan @EricLevitz Let me suggest that magazine publisher that pushed Stephen Glass's racist fabulation is one with racial fixation.
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