A good rule of thumb for writers on Twitter, which I try (with mixed success) to follow: When you're laughing, Tweet. When you're angry, write a column. Angry is good for writing, but angry writing needs more editing.
I think you and I have different ideas about what courtesy requires in that situation. If I clarify or correct something I said before, I'm doing so primarily for my credibility and for my readers' information. I assume the same of any writer.
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Let’s understand what “that situation” was and in what context. I didn’t withdraw my rt of you because I made a factual error—that’s easy. I did it because I *misread you and to your detriment in the vicious political context of twitter.* And moreover, I misread somebody—you—
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whose politics I find dangerous and cruel. *Nobody* on twitter whose politics is as different as mine is from yours, *nevertheless* apologizes to them when they’ve misread them and thus sent online hostility their way. That you don’t wish to grasp this is astonishingly graceless.
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