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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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      5. And Hitchens pointedly calls attention to stuff sentimental centrist media avoids: Teresa's anti-contraceptive stance & sqalid politics

      3 replies 9 retweets 47 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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      6. Where the Missionary Position falls apart is that to decisively make case Hitchens has to show Teresa's hospitals were no good.

      3 replies 12 retweets 26 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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      7. Hitchens makes a few gestures in that direction with second hand reports but as so often doesn't do reporting to seal his case.

      2 replies 11 retweets 27 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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      8. Allied with lack of reporting is general absence of Indian voices. Teresa lived most of her life in India & was polarizing figure.

      3 replies 12 retweets 47 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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      9. Reason I could never fully accept Hitchens was I knew that although she was controversial, Teresa had many non-Catholic admirers in India

      5 replies 10 retweets 45 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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      10. When Teresa died, the government of India declared a week of mourning -- indicating a level of respect in India Hitchens didn't address

      7 replies 13 retweets 50 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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      11. Of course Hitchens himself can now be debunked as thoroughly as he debunked Mother Teresa: https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/772600859180077057 …

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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      12. Now, it's easy enough to find many, many examples of Hitchens being wrong. Via @MaxBlumenthal Hitchens on Saddam http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2007/07/iraq-arab-saddam-iran-hitchens …

      3 replies 5 retweets 53 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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      13. Hichens went from placing his hopes in Saddam to being Paul Wolfowitz's mouthpiece -- surely a case of two bad extremes.

      1 reply 11 retweets 64 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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      14. And for the prosecution I'd also add that while Hitchens was an often delightful writer to read he was a dangerous model to imitate.

      5 replies 9 retweets 63 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016

      15. By dangerous model to imitate I mean Hitchens was (like Hemingway, Kerouac, Hunter Thompson) too admired by men as a great rogue male.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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          16. The downside of being a rogue male are all to evident in Hitchens's Why Women Aren't Funny essay.

          1 reply 11 retweets 77 likes
        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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          17. And yet, and yet, despite all his flaws, I'm not ready to dismiss Hitchens to the ash-heap of the over-rated.

          5 replies 4 retweets 38 likes
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        1. Julie Goldberg‏ @juliegoldberg 4 Sep 2016
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          All true, but my God, what a stylist he was!

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        2. Mark Dery‏ @markdery 4 Sep 2016
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          I smell misandry on the wind. Is every Hitch fan a rogue bro?

          3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
          Replying to @markdery

          If they use the word misandry, yes.

          2 replies 0 retweets 35 likes
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