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 mean, I'm glad you deleted the tweet. I just think we have different ideas about what Twitter is for.
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I appreciated you saying you're glad I deleted it. I'm just pointing out that, whatever twitter is for, "actually existing" twitter contains few acknowledgments from right to left or left to right of people acknowledging they were unfair to an interlocutor. Seems to me that would
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be a good thing to encourage--just on the grounds of procedural fairness and menschiness--so that we can argue accurately and fairly on the merits but not wrongly stick a knife into each other. Let's *rightly* stick a knife in each other! ("conceding" above, not acknowledging)
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