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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 May 2018

      1. So the whole discussion of "intellectual dark web," conservatives in liberal media etc. confuses two issues: should non-conservatives read right-wing authors (yes) & should liberal magazines publish right-wing authors (it depends).

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 May 2018

      2. People should read right-wing authors, definitely. Why? Because there are a lot of right-wingers out there (Trump is president, duh) and it's important to understand what they think (to understand the world & to fight against him).

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 May 2018

      3. But in terms of reading the right, it's often most valuable to read the worst & least persuasive writers. Since 1980s, most valuable writers for understanding right have been Pat Buchanan & Sam T. Francis.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 May 2018

      4. Buchanan & Francis are & were (Francis died in 2005) undeniably bigots but they also had a finger on pulse of where the American right was going.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 May 2018

      5. Should liberal (or mainstream/centrist) publications give space to writers like Buchanan & Francis? Hard to how, since even right found them unpalatable (Buckley denounced Buchanan's anti-Semitism, Washington Times fired Francis).

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 May 2018

      6. Traditionally liberal (or mainstream/centrist) publications prefer to hire conservatives who are less rabid, saner, more palatable to wider audience (Will, Brooks, Douthat). Writers who most worth reading for ideas but not necessarily representative of the right.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 May 2018

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Ross Douthat

      7. Contra Douthat, these institutions are not ideological capacious. They range from center right to center left.https://twitter.com/DouthatNYT/status/994964671752032256 …

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      Ross DouthatVerified account @DouthatNYT
      Replying to @HeerJeet
      Nobody in this debate is arguing that *liberal* magazines need to publish right-wing authors. The whole issue revolves around institutions -- universities, my newspaper, the "of no party and clique" Atlantic -- that explicitly aspire to be ideologically capacious.
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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 May 2018

      8. The problem all along is how do you represent the ideological divisions of polarizing & fraying America in institutions that really have a hard time processing ideas outside narrow center left & center right spectrum.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 May 2018

      9. Unpopular opinion but I think @DouthatNYT has emerged as particularly valuable writer in Trump era because he can translate (so to speak) paleo-conservative impulses into language non-conservatives can understand.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 May 2018

          10. Bari Weiss, viewed charitably, is trying to something similar to what @DouthatNYT does: act as translator/mediator between right-wing subcultures and NYT centrist/liberal subculture. But these translation/mediations are always fraught.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 May 2018

          11. Douthat's notorious robot sex column can be seen as case where translation/mediation failed because readers took him as sympathizing with incels & trying to mainstream their concerns. That's usual danger of liminal figure; to be seen as representing other side.

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        1. Theodore Ross‏Verified account @theodoreross 11 May 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @DouthatNYT

          No disrespect, but I prefer that from you.

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        1. Octavo‏ @DeadGodsBook 11 May 2018
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          I think the reason that's unpopular is that conservative impulses are pervasive and easy to understand.

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        1. bdodgy‏ @bdodgy3 11 May 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @DouthatNYT

          Dude he had to post like a twelve tweet thread about his "redistribute sex to the incels" column because it was "being misinterpreted" - which sort of rebuts the point you're making.

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        1. Basileus ton Khryson‏ @MetroidThief 11 May 2018
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          Like their impulse to empathize with misogyny-motivated terrorists?

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        1. Bill Smith‏ @sonimfan 11 May 2018
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          Bill Smith Retweeted Jeet Heer

          Actually, you already explained conservative impulses in one tweethttps://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/993642746094157824 …

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          Jeet HeerVerified account @HeerJeet
          Replying to @jonathanchait
          “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” -- Frank Wilhoit.
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