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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Jan 2016
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      3. According to Gopnik, Mill was "a servant of British imperialism, but a benevolent kind."

      2 replies 3 retweets 8 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Jan 2016
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      4. We can appreciate the exact nature of Mill's "benevolent" imperialism by reading him on the Irish potato famine: http://crookedtimber.org/2016/01/28/millian-liberalism-and-the-irish-famine/ …

      4 replies 12 retweets 26 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Jan 2016
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      5. As @henryfarrell notes, Mill's response to famine was "to contemn in the harshest terms efforts to help" people starving to death

      1 reply 6 retweets 17 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Jan 2016
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      6. The key fact to remember is that famine was man-made and relief (feeding the starving) was very feasible if government wanted to do it.

      4 replies 8 retweets 17 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Jan 2016
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      7. C. O’Grada: Although potato crop failed, [Ireland] was still producing and exporting more than enough grain crops to feed the population.

      3 replies 3 retweets 9 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Jan 2016
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      8. Fact that Mill had a more cogent & enlightened critique than most of causes of famine (in landlord system) makes his stance even worse.

      3 replies 0 retweets 12 likes
    7. Brad DeLong  🖖‏ @delong 30 Jan 2016
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      .@HeerJeet (1) Hold it: standard British line: “The Irish are losers and should die”. Million line: “The Irish R trapped in a dysfunctional

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    8. Brad DeLong  🖖‏ @delong 30 Jan 2016
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      .@HeerJeet (2) neofeudal system and efforts to relieve the famine have massive unfortunate blowback in perpetuating bad system. We need to

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    9. Brad DeLong  🖖‏ @delong 30 Jan 2016
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      .@HeerJeet (3) cauterize, and then reform. That’s our best shot.” How is that worse than: “the Irish are losers and should die”?

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    10. Brad DeLong  🖖‏ @delong 30 Jan 2016
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      .@HeerJeet (4) Mill was wrong. Mill was not worse thn, say, Senior—or, in our century, Ehrlich, who in 1970s was “Bengalis losers & shd die”

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Jan 2016
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      @delong Mill's institutional critique (as opposed to "Irish are losers") should have made him more receptive to food relief.

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        2. Brad DeLong  🖖‏ @delong 30 Jan 2016
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          .@HeerJeet (1) I read your argument as “Mill should have been Beveridge”. & he should have! But Mill’s neoliberal “we can’t save those

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        3. Brad DeLong  🖖‏ @delong 30 Jan 2016
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          .@HeerJeet (2) trapped behind the structural 8-ball” still much better than racist-conservative “loser races need to serve or die”

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