I love how the new anti-anti-free speech position that college students are "teens"* who can't have any relevance to political debate. Because never in American history has student activism had any importance! *the students are mostly seniors and juniorshttps://twitter.com/ashleyfeinberg/status/963590927477600256 …
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Replying to @jonathanchait
I think if you wanted to cover the left, then some attention to DSA (32,000 members) & unions more important than these campus incidences.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
The rise of illiberalism on the left in recent years is not just a campus phenomenon.
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Replying to @jonathanchait @HeerJeet
There are a small number of genuinely anti-liberal leftists and there are far more leftists who don't like to describe themselves as liberal because of what it connotes. You don't have to agree with either but I wish you better distinguished marginal left from "mainstream"
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Replying to @PatrickIber @jonathanchait
I'd also add that the biggest sources of illiberalism in American society aren't from the left.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @PatrickIber
I agree, which is why I spend about 2000% more of my time criticizing the illiberal right than the illiberal left.
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Replying to @jonathanchait @HeerJeet
I guess, but the fixation of leftist politics at elite private universities, as if it represented some broader problem on the "left" in general, always seems superficial compared to your other work. Even on campus right-wing illiberalism is far more potent
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There's also the problem (oft-ignored but real) of centrist illiberalism.
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