Are we getting a Harpers letter about this?
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The NYTimes' @rmac18 has been suspended from Twitter. He's been on the Elon Musk beat.
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HARPERS: Letter from Niger: Over the Horizon - The next frontier in the war on terror harpers.org/archive/2022/1 #photojournalism #photography #journalism
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This is quite literally the future the Harpers letter writers were asking for. So congrats on that.
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There was a *1,300% INCREASE* in the use of the N-word on Twitter in the hours after the Musk takeover happened, a Bloomberg analysis found.
The word peaked at 170 mentions every five minutes on the afternoon of Oct. 28.
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Every single person who signed that Harpers letter had better loudly decry this bill, which is written by the powerful to silence the weak.
Every single one.
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<Cough cough> That’s what we said about the Harpers letter.
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What they always meant by "free speech" was: "We and our friends get to say what we please. You have to listen."
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Squint and you’re reading the Harpers letter
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Really looking forward to hearing the people who signed the letter speak out against the persecution & prosecution of #julianassange
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It sure would show some intellectual consistency if the high profile signatories of the Harpers letter took the driver’s seat in defending their very junior colleagues like when they are attacked by “expected” right wing mobs & the Univ admins that respond to them.
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Loss of perspective. That is really endemic to the free speech debate. Harpers letter claimed “daily the flow of info becomes more restricted”, an unsupported claim right from the jump.
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8) Of course, many critics of Twitter’s policies understand this point; they appreciate the platform’s potential to democratize speech and wish to protect it. And that’s totally legitimate. But I think some folks lose all sense of proportion on this...
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Congratulations again to everyone who signed the Harpers letter
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Putin slams “cancel culture” and trans rights, calling teaching gender fluidity “crime against humanity” wapo.st/3vAYLLZ
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Thank you again to the people who signed the Harpers letter for helping to get us here. Couldn't have done it without you.
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THE BLUEST EYE, along with acclaimed memoirs by @KieseLaymon, @AlisonBechdel, and @IamGMJohnson, have been banned by the school board in Wentzville, Missouri. bit.ly/3nXcE4A @WSDinfo #BannedBooks
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Not Matt Taibbi signing onto a genocidal moral panic. Yeah, Matt we know that’s why you signed the Harpers letter. Go touch grass.
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I hope the Harpers letter folks will sign another letter about the suppression of media rights in this country. But I'm not holding my breath.
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MAN are the Harpers letter writers going to be pissed about this!
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A new bill in Oklahoma (also prefiled last week) explicitly *requires* teachers and university professors to lie to their students about American history. I'm not making this up!
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And not a word from the free speech warriors and Harpers Letter people
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This is the children's section in Patmos Library in Jamestown, Michigan.
Local citizens voted to defund it in Nov, after it refused to ban all LGBTQ+ books.
Now a local politician has suggested shutting down the library "by force." bridgemi.com/michigan-gover…
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Has weighed in on this yet? The Harpers letter folks? This is happening at Chicago, the place everyone is supposed to emulate on academic freedom and free expression. But if conservatives don’t like or even distort your course offering, it must be snuffed out.
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UPDATE: @UChicago has just CANCELLED “The Problem of Whiteness” class.
Thank you to everyone who shared my thread. We are obviously fighting an uphill battle, but this is a huge victory. Students need to call out anti-white hatred whenever they see it.
Just the beginning. twitter.com/RealDSchmidt/s…
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By the Transitive Property of Whatever, the Harpers Letter signatories - Noam Chomsky, Salman Rushdie, etc. - are equated with Trumpism.
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I know the point here is to be dishonest, but the obvious answer is that the thing distinguishing the two is the explicit criticism of the Trump administration within the Harper’s letter text.
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This story is great, and adds to a ton of pre-election reporting on Trump using the levers of government to hand out goodies. Much easier explanation than “Latinos in the Rio Grande Valley were OUTRAGED at the backlash to the Harpers letter.”
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Strikes me as a political problem going forward that the Democrats have decided they underperformed in 2020 because of wokeness run amok rather than, as suggested in this article, Donald Trump gave everybody a $1,200 check with his name on it. wsj.com/articles/how-d
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This is abject nonsense & I'm disturbed to see otherwise smart leftists RT-ing it.
Read Jon Ronson's public shaming book or Mark Fisher's Vampire Castle essay or the Harpers Letter. Agree or disagree that they're describing a real problem *this* characterization is dumb as shit.
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Cancel culture is when a person accustomed to speaking over others gets talked back to.
That's it. That's the whole phenomenon.
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