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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Apr 2018

    1. To judge by the right-wing freakout over Kevin Williamson you'd think that firing writers over extremist views was unheard of. But in fact Williamson's previous home National Review has repeatedly done that.

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Apr 2018

        2. @MattGertz here usefully cites National Review's firing of John Derbyshire. But that's just the tip of iceberg.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Apr 2018

        3. As the libertarian economist Murray Rothbard (himself an unperson at National Review after late 1950s) observed, National Review has a history of purges & excommunications.

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      4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Apr 2018

        4. Some of the people NR purged were for good reasons (various anti-Semites & conspiracy nuts like Revilo Oliver). Others more dubious: John T. Flynn made unwelcome for criticizing Cold War militarism.

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      5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Apr 2018

        5. Garry Wills was prolific National Review contributor in 1950s/1960s. Then he submitted article making conservative case against Viet Nam war & was excommunicated from magazine for decades.

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      6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Apr 2018

        6. I review some history here and show that there are many Kevin Williamsons in the past who were fired by National Review:https://newrepublic.com/article/147826/national-reviews-struggle-ideological-diversity …

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      7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Apr 2018

        Jeet Heer Retweeted Les Drama, More Depth  🦚

        7. Remember when this happened there as a huge outcry about the death of tolerance and free speech. LOLhttps://twitter.com/LCS__AUTiger/status/982365367841542144 …

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        Les Drama, More Depth  🦚 @LCS__AUTiger
        Replying to @HeerJeet
        Heck, National Review got rid of founder WFB's own son, Christopher Buckley, after he wrote an editorial about his decision to vote for Obama in 2008.
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      8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Apr 2018

        8. Would the people who say "Atlantic shouldn't have fired Williamson" also say "National Review shouldn't have fired Joseph Sobran and John Derbyshire"? If not, why not?

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      9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Apr 2018

        9. The argument for Williamson is he's supposedly a brilliant stylist. De gustibus non est disputandum. But Joseph Sobran was also a very stylish writer, one of the very best National Review has ever had.

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      10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Apr 2018

        10. True, Sobran was an anti-Semite & a racist. But he wasn't fired for that. He was fired for criticizing Buckley. How is that defensible? Where was the movement calling for justice for Sobran?

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      2. Gene Takavic Truther‏ @wovenstrap 6 Apr 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        The difference between an ideological rag and a real magazine, it's as simple as that.

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      3. Ian 'pass AB2053' Monroe  🚰 🏗‏ @eean 6 Apr 2018
        Replying to @wovenstrap @HeerJeet

        magazines having a clear point of view is fine imo, doesn't make them a rag.

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