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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 May 2016

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Ross Douthat

    I realize rhetoric of reaction requires jeopardy argument, but a few admittedly nasty twitter spats ≠ French Terrorhttps://twitter.com/DouthatNYT/status/734546544888778752 …

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    Ross DouthatVerified account @DouthatNYT
    No, nothing about the current intra-left wars makes me think the ppl involved would be purging each other in Paris in 1793, why do you ask?
    8:56 PM - 22 May 2016
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      1. ryan cooper‏Verified account @ryanlcooper 22 May 2016
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        kind of hard to grasp how brutal life was even 100 years ago

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      1. Citizen_Fur‏ @citizenfur 22 May 2016
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        is this really new either? Surely similar things happened in various spaces in civil rights era?

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      1. Franklin Harris‏ @FranklinH3000 22 May 2016
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        What about a site called Jacobin?

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      1. Eric Kleefeld‏ @EricKleefeld 22 May 2016
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        @DouthatNYT We were all taught in our history books the horrors of French Reign of Terror, when they threw chairs at a convention.

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      1. Carl Lee‏ @CarlLeadUs 22 May 2016
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        honestly, people have so many names for everything. It's impossible to keep track of. There seem to be 2 names per issue

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      2. bias wrecker⁷‏ @outofideas4anam 22 May 2016
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        Which moment in history do the intra-right wars remind him of?

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      3. Canderous Ordoliberal  🕊‏ @butleriano 22 May 2016
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        "the interwar period in central Europe"

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      1. Alon‏ @alon_levy 22 May 2016
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        On the other hand, the primary magazine stoking these spats is named after the faction that did the Reign of Terror...

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      1. Steve Negus‏ @SteveNegusMasr 22 May 2016
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        @RBStalin Go easy on @DouthatNYT. I expect the right is a little tetchy about echoes of European history just now.

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      1. Gender Goblin‏ @dslakter 22 May 2016
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        *resignedly puts away guillotine reserved for just this occasion*

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