the really chilling thing for me was seeing 1. @ itsbirdemic 's timeline where he is basically doing nothing but tweet for Hsu to be fired 2. a leak of the 500 economists who signed a petition to take down Uhlig. I /knew/ some of those people
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Replying to @eigenrobot @liminal_warmth
we're far less prominent than those people (even bowser no offense) but the scale of the willingness to take heads seems breathtaking
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Replying to @liminal_warmth
I think the concern is not that people have the energy to do this in one-offs, but rather that it's institutionalized and mechanized. If you take some heads and establish a precedent, you have a new norm, and punishing future deviants is nearly automatic.
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twenty years ago wearing blackface at a party was safe (cf Northam, Trudeau); now it's an easy shitcanning. I say this not to endorse blackface as worthy of special defense, but just to illustrate the operation A mob is no longer necessary
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