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What used to be is gone and what ought to be ought not to be so hard. Tweets speak for myself only.

Apr 17, 2021, 7 tweets

Dear Bari: I never thought this would happen to me, but if Jesse Helms had been president we never would have had any of these problems lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/04/dear-b…

If not for Bari's finance bro, where else would we be able to read about Martin Luther King, the uncontroversial figure whose entire career consisted of one speech that contained one sentence, except for every conservative publication that has ever existed?

It's the Chris Rock "you're not racist if you didn't literally shoot Medgar Evers" routine, but unironically:

Finance bro who has already dropped more than 200 large on his daughter's elementary school education wants you to know that he is not *especially* deep-pocketed, and wishes that Upper East Side private schools could return to their roots as engines for social equity:

Bari's correspondent is not merely an anti-vaxx troofer, he's an Alex Berenson reply guy, the only thing in the world more pathetic than being a Bari Weiss reply guy:

I wish I could tell you that this wasn't about to become Republican orthodoxy but

Was racism completely ended by the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1965, views differ

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