8. Goldberg's account (which Williamson neither addresses nor refutes) makes clear that the cause for firing was wrong impression created that tweet was merely "an impulsive, decontextualized, heat-of-the-moment post, as Kevin had explained it." I.e. lying.
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9. Williamson is also very mad that people wrote articles criticizing him without interviewing him. I find this a baffling objection.pic.twitter.com/795TWc1V1U
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10. Williamson is a public writer, so people can reasonable judge him by his wriitng. It's normal to judge writers, even controversial ones (say Ta-Nehisi Coates or Noam Chomsky) based on their writing without interviewing them.
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11. Even a lesser light like myself gets criticized (as it happens in the pages of Williamson's old magazine National Review) without anyone bothering to interview me. Which is ok. It's fair to judge me by my words. Williamson as well.
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12. But, as it happens, after Williamson was fired from Atlantic (and hence newsworthy) I wrote to him and asked for a Q&A in New Republic to discuss his view. He rejected me in vehement terms, insulting both me & TNR.
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13. My favorite part of the exchange where I politely offered a Q&A where Williamson could explain his views at length in TNR is when he called me and the magazine "mosquitos"
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14. As it happens, the stout-hearted
@ed_kilgore was able to interview Williamson for New York, but not with fruitful results:http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/williamson-wont-answer-questions-about-abortion-punishment.html …3 replies 40 retweets 360 likesShow this thread -
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16. To recap. Williamson: women who have abortions should be hanged. Sane people: WTF dude. W: It was just a provocation. SP. Um, ok. W on friendly podcast: Yeah, hanging is just logical but I don't like capital punishment SP: What should punishment be? W: I won't say.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Whenever you're not gloating in anti-Americanism everything you write makes so much sense. You're one of the few people who called out Williamson over his lying as much as he needed to be! I read his tweets and his podcast and he clearly actually believes they should be hanged.
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I don't think of myself as anti-American in any sense. I do want America to have a more restrained foreign policy but that's motivated by my conception (possibly wrong!) of what is good for America.
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You know what, this is actually a good way to phrase it: You have a Trollish Three-step relationship with anti-Americanism. You say something anti-American, then when challenged on it, you talk your way out of it, and then you later say something anti-American again.
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Jason Catlin Retweeted Jeet Heer
Look at this: I know, I know you were just joking. :-Phttps://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/897307716049186818 …
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