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29 Oct, 5 tweets, 3 min read
This man has well over 1 million followers. @Twitter does this violate any of your rules at all?
.@jack will give 10 million dollars away to publicly signal that he's an "anti-racist" du jour, yet he'll allow literal justifications of mass murder against one specific nationality to go unchallenged on his platform.
Now three current or former heads of state have essentially incited violence against all of French society on @Twitter. Will @jack even respond to this?
Update: @Twitter has responded and left the tweet up because "it may be in the public good for it to remain accessible":
But @Twitter does acknowledge that the tweet "glorifies violence." This is the same lame have it both ways response they did to one of Trump's tweets several months ago.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams 🌍 🎧 Profile picture
31 Oct
The hard left––not liberals, to be clear––is fundamentally childlike insofar as it fuels itself and its fury on a vision of some future state of purity that can by necessity never be achieved.

The very foundation of adulthood is the acceptance of compromise and imperfection.
In turn, it's true that the far right fuels itself on a childlike nostalgia for the past perfect states that can never be achieved and in fact never existed either.

Liberals are the genuine adults, yet liberalism is being devoured from the left and right flanks at the moment.
Anyway, interacting this evening with the social media account of the far-left journal @curaffairs was a lot like interacting with one of my children. Just pure detachment from real-world constraints and circumstances.
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31 Oct
Earlier today I speculated that the course we’re on will likely see statues of Obama ripped down in the future. The political commentary magazine Current Affairs responds: “lol” obvi. Like it’s not even a question.
Et voila.
Not to mention it’s depressing that a supposedly serious political magazine makes its points by tweeting “lol.”
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29 Oct
What is insane is that, after all is said and done, Donald Trump is going to get more of the black vote than any other Republican in my lifetime. Absolutely bananas.
That picture also just freaks me out
I’m sorry, black *male* vote to be specific
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29 Oct
One thing that gets short shrift in these conversations about the future of journalism is just how, content aside, on the level of craft, a piece at the NYTM, or the New Yorker or Harper’s or Liberties, is made with such a high level of meticulous editing and fact-checking.
Writing a good essay or reported piece requires an extraordinary amount of back and forth with multiple people who try their best to reveal the thing that is trying to be said in its very best form. It requires lots of skeptical pushback, encouragement, polishing, rephrasing...
It’s what makes edited writing so superior to Twitter or what used to be blogging.

It just makes me uneasy when so many people, talented writers, are starting to feel compelled to strike out on their own.
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29 Oct
🎯 @rglucks1 in @lemondefr: "La vérité est que des progressistes chevronnés ont ... trop longtemps toléré les intolérants. Pourquoi ? Par mauvaise conscience sociale et historique. Par crainte de n’être plus que des bourgeois parlant à des bourgeois." lemonde.fr/idees/article/…
"Par impuissance face aux relégations et aux discriminations. Par mémoire des crimes coloniaux. Par confort aussi. Et lâcheté, sans doute."
One of the most powerful pieces I've seen lately: "A left that places anti-racism above all else has underestimated, minimized, veiled the fundamentalist danger. Has agreed to treat French Muslims differently from others, which in itself is a form of compassionate racism."
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24 Sep
Rather than resort to facile sanctimony and ad hominem, why not expand? In what way is it not tragic that a woman trying to better her life was entangled with a man who, among other things, left a dead body in a car he made her rent, and ultimately led the police to her door?
Anyway, a lot of people in the comments today still don't seem to know all of the details. Here is an authoritative account: nytimes.com/2020/08/30/us/…
Also, what does this even mean: "if black lives matter to you ... you must upend your comfortable white life and live it in deference, in prostrated honor, of our existence."

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