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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Feb 2018

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Jonathan Merritt

      Milton & Locke thought Catholics didn't deserve free speech. Mill thought "immature" (i.e. non whites & working class) didn't deserve free speech. So this is completely wrong on classical liberal position.https://twitter.com/JonathanMerritt/status/962446842062663681 …

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      Jonathan MerrittVerified account @JonathanMerritt
      Classical liberalism values free speech as a great good. It never seeks to shame, shun, or silence another. It works to enable a marketplace of free thought where, it believes, the best ideas will prevail. If you refuse to hear or dialogue with a conservative, you aren’t liberal.
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Feb 2018

      People who call themselves "classical liberals" often seem not to have read any works in the classical liberal tradition.

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    3. Franklin Harris‏ @FranklinH3000 10 Feb 2018
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      It's a bit disingenuous to say X particular classical liberal wasn't consistent about Y therefore the the classical liberal position on Y is illiberal.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Feb 2018
      Replying to @FranklinH3000

      No, my position is people are concocting a fake tradition based on what they think classical liberals should have believed, rather than what they in fact did believe.

      9:47 PM - 10 Feb 2018
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        2. Seth B. Johnson‏ @SBoundsJohnson 10 Feb 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @FranklinH3000

          Isn't it possible many self-described classical liberals have read the texts, seen and recognized the contradictions or blind spots, and simply extend the concepts to cover groups and situations the original authors didn't, rather than throwing out the whole tradition?

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        3. Seth B. Johnson‏ @SBoundsJohnson 10 Feb 2018
          Replying to @SBoundsJohnson @HeerJeet @FranklinH3000

          And isn't that what those who identify with any political tradition end up doing? Any single theorist is going to have contradictions or blind spots, which is only compounded when multiple theorists are grouped together in a "tradition."

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        1. Shaunistan‏ @sholt87 10 Feb 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @FranklinH3000

          People make mistakes. They're not infallible. My boy Jefferson owned slaves and had relations with one, which would still be rape. My other boy Hugo Black was in the KKK and supported the internment of Japanese-Americans. And my other boy Andy Johnson set civil rights back 100yrs

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        1. Shaunistan‏ @sholt87 10 Feb 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @FranklinH3000

          I won't even get into Ayn Rand. Point is even our idols have prolly done some twisted shit. Everyone has skeletons. Liking someone's position on Y doesn't mean we agree with them A-Z or think them a saint.

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