The question is whether you are sorting by ideology or sorting by tribe. You can't sort one side by ideology and the other by tribe if you are trying to be consistent. If conservatives are "whoever shows up at the meetings," then the other side is, too.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @cjane87
Please take your complaint up with people who “sort by tribe.”
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You...really....expect me to believe you've never treated conservatives as bearing any responsibility for association with people who do not share conservative ideology, but who associate with Republican politicians or infiltrate conservative movement orgs? Really?
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Replying to @baseballcrank @cjane87
I have literally years of writing on God’s green internet so feel free to show me an example of when I attacked conservatives on the basis of “tribal association” versus an actual statement or argument.
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1. I'm legit amazed you lack the self-awareness, or at least the candor, to admit this instead of asking me to play assignment desk on your old tweets, given how many of them you deleted. Having other things to do, I can of course offer a few quick examples of the blunderbuss.pic.twitter.com/m7oupFvrEf
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Replying to @baseballcrank @cjane87
What I like about this response is that I asked "Show me an example of me categorizing conservatives on the basis of tribal affiliation" and what you have shown me are a headline (of a piece that doesn't do that) and some tweets (which don't do that).
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...and now I see why you deleted the Tweet referencing Richard Spencer https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/05/why-richard-spencer-matters.html …pic.twitter.com/I38Cv6cHc7
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Replying to @baseballcrank @cjane87
Serious question, did you even read the piece? Can you read? Because I just reread that column and it doesn't actually do what you're accusing me of doing.
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Replying to @jbouie
It argues specifically that Spencer matters because white supremacist activity says something about the national political climate. (Dropping Jane from this Twitter canoe)pic.twitter.com/4r93V1Wc87
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Replying to @baseballcrank
It argues specifically that Spencer matters because the national political climate contains greater space for him and people like him to act. Are you capable of rendering anything accurately?
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I'm content for the readers to judge for themselves, hence the link. That's the entire point of these sorts of arguments on Twitter. I would never expect to convince you of anything.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @jbouie
I am not getting how this proves your point. I don't think Bouie is saying it is inappropriate to criticize individuals or groups on the left if and when they are too receptive to someone like Farrakhan
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Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Dan McLaughlin
Yet that's exactly what I've been arguing!https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1124018874905767938 …
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Dan McLaughlinVerified account @baseballcrankReal talk: Louis Farrakhan and his movement are fundamentally right-wing in their worldview, BUT ALSO part of the American political Left & not the Right (both as broadly defined), courted & accepted for many years by Democratic politicians, not Republican ones. No spinning that. https://twitter.com/TPM/status/956607214671757313 …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes - Show replies
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