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    1. replier‏ @red_boxer0 16 Feb 2018
      Replying to @janecoaston @cjane87 @jessesingal

      that's true, because I said it's happening now, not that it was happening...what, 15 years ago Jane? ish?

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    2. Jesse Singal‏Verified account @jessesingal 16 Feb 2018
      Replying to @red_boxer0 @cjane87

      Jane's younger than me! I graduated 2006 and back then, I had a weird addiction to psychotic far-right radio personalities who were making the exact same claims about the sort of university I was then-presently attending. This is a constant trope and it's exaggerated.

      5 replies 1 retweet 12 likes
    3. Jesse Walker‏ @notjessewalker 16 Feb 2018
      Replying to @jessesingal @red_boxer0 @cjane87

      I was at Michigan when the first big wave of PC media stories hit in 1990, and I had the distinct impression that "political correctness" was getting less prevalent even as press coverage of it increased.

      1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
    4. Jesse Walker‏ @notjessewalker 16 Feb 2018
      Replying to @notjessewalker @jessesingal and

      I also didn't think PC had much to do with the professoriate; but parts of the right found it convenient to tack it onto their preexisting "tenured radicals" narrative.

      4 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    5. Jonathan Chait‏Verified account @jonathanchait 16 Feb 2018
      Replying to @notjessewalker @jessesingal and

      Agree, it was a student-driven phenomenon and probably peaked in Ann Arbor around '88-'89. Extant but in decline by the time the national media tuned in.

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Feb 2018
      Replying to @jonathanchait @notjessewalker and

      It's almost as if PC is a small phenomenon involving a small number of students who quickly grow out of it but is hugely magnified by elite journalists!

      5 replies 4 retweets 40 likes
    7. Cathy Young  🇺🇦‏Verified account @CathyYoung63 16 Feb 2018
      Replying to @HeerJeet @jonathanchait and

      Meanwhile elite media have staffers who think that saying "immigrants get the job done" in reference to a daughter of immigrants is just like the Japanese internment

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    8. Jane Coaston‏Verified account @janecoaston 16 Feb 2018
      Replying to @CathyYoung63 @HeerJeet and

      And those elite media think that being criticized for saying so is a sign of “civilization’s end."

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    9. Cathy Young  🇺🇦‏Verified account @CathyYoung63 16 Feb 2018
      Replying to @janecoaston @cjane87 and

      Being called a racist and a ghoul is not "criticism."

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    10. Jane Coaston‏Verified account @janecoaston 16 Feb 2018
      Replying to @CathyYoung63 @HeerJeet and

      Yes, yes it is. A lot of criticism is mean-spirited, especially online. Something you yourself have written about extensively. But it is not a signpost for the end of civilization.

      2 replies 0 retweets 11 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Feb 2018
      Replying to @janecoaston @cjane87 and

      Yep. Nor is it "fascist" (as Bret Stephens complained about criticism of another New York Times tweeter).

      1:53 PM - 16 Feb 2018
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        1. That Fuzzy Bastard‏ @thefuzzybastard 16 Feb 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @cjane87 and

          Calling people "garbage" is not that different from calling them "vermin".

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