So your standard is now “prove to me that you were forced out of your website/newspaper for ideological error, but my starting place is those concerned are [insert series of insults]?”
It doesn’t concern you that big time names like @mattyglesias @sullydish @bariweiss @ggreenwald all departing just since JULY are saying pretty much the same thing? (@JBennet & MANY others not included because they didn’t say anything or much)
I understand you are much more concerned about other aspects of the culture war. That’s fine. I am too. But you have a lot of friends & followers who have spent countless hours reporting on problems relating to unusually intense conformist norms coming from campus, like...
Many of us have written on this, from a serious social science perspective (including my own work): @CassSunstein @jean_twenge @CampbellSocProf @sapinker @charlesmurray @JonHaidt @DavidAFrench @jon_rauch
And I know you’re fully capable of dismissing every single person I mention, every single book I mention, every single example I mention, which makes me hesitant to even put more examples. I put plenty in our debate @reason & it doesn’t budge anything
And now we’re just sort of laughable & dismissible despite the fact that the trends several of us saw coming have gotten so much more intense than frankly I ever would’ve imagined when I started in this business in 2001
So it’s probably as good a time as any to tell you something I’ve been chicken to tell you… People are scared of you. I’’M scared of you. That’s why I haven’t said this previously more forcefully. You are fast, funny, prolific, dogged, tenacious, with a hard-core following
& I know I will regret saying any of this. Your followers will make me regret it. I may lose you as a friend, which would be tremendously sad, but I should’ve told you earlier. You have A LOT of power now Ken. Even more then your average famous Harvard law/law firm partner.
I wish I didn’t have to spend so much energy fighting cynicism both about people who argue for #freespeech & now anybody who thinks that there’s some thing pernicious about the ideological conformism of both higher education & many extremely influential journalistic outfits
But I have to fight it from someone who I KNOW *is* genuinely great on free-speech, JUST LIKE practically every other professional I know who actually does free speech as they’re calling, breaks my heart.

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13 Nov
Click the link below to learn about how speech codes disproportionately harm the #neurodiverse & students on the autism spectrum. #freespeech

Or keep reading for a message to student journalists! 0/7

I had the pleasure of sending a letter (arriving next week) to 602 campus news rooms.

If you know me, you’ve almost certainly heard me talk about my time as a college journalist. It “radicalized” me toward #FreeSpeech & the #FirstAmendment. 1/7

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Whenever we (@TheEagleOnline) printed something controversial, someone would come into my office demanding I fire a reporter or columnist. Sometimes over something tiny, other times something understandably controversial. 2/7
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Option 1: Click the link below & read about an administrator who gravely misunderstands the “heckler’s veto”

Option 2: Continue reading for a story about an autistic student banned from class for saying she’s not a “snowflake.” 0/7
.@Portland_State graduate student Lindy Treece said “I’m going to accept the results of the election no matter what because I’m not a snowflake” in a social work class. When she finished these words, she was muted, her camera shut off, AND THEN... 1/7
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...the prof told her she could only return to class if she agreed not to use “derogatory” language.

Lindy replied that she could NOT & argued that what’s “derogatory'' is subjective & as an autistic person, she’s often unaware how people will be impacted before she speaks. 2/7
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It’s a week about choices! Either click the link below to read my response to a bizarre claim that I/@TheFIREorg only care about the speech of my “wealthy friends,” OR continue reading to learn about the oft-misunderstood heckler’s veto! 0/5

Today, the inimitable @AdGo writes for my blog on one of the worst misunderstandings of a #freespeech concept (in this case, the heckler’s veto) I’ve ever seen from a university administrator — which is REALLY saying something. 1/5

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The heckler’s veto is when an individual or group attempts to silence a speaker through noise, intimidation, or violence. The First Amendment requires government actors to avoid empowering the veto against protected speech. 2/5
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4 Oct
THREAD about time travel: A common misconception is that time travel is either impossible or the technology is so far in the future as is to be irrelevant. This is actually not the case. 1/8
Leaving aside the theoretical possibility of traveling backwards in time, traveling forward in time at an accelerated rate has been understood for well over a century now. 2/8
It was even confirmed in a 1971 experiment where two atomic clocks were synchronized, and one was flown twice around the world in a jet. It ended up behind its twin on the ground, meaning it had "traveled" to the future! 3/8
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I know, I know, hear me out... 1/4

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Next is @seanhowe's fantastic Marvel Comics: The Untold Story.

It covers everything from Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's strained relationship, the moral panic over comics of the '50s, to the tragic untimely death of the great John Verpooten. 3/4

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I haven’t written the review yet, but this month’s Prestigious Ashurbanipal Award goes to @DavidAFrench's Divided We Fall! 1/5

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I was surprised & choked up by the shout out to me & @TheFIREorg!

"One of my favorite people in all of the [US] is my liberal civil libertarian friend Greg Lukianoff. Greg is the president of [FIRE], one of the last truly non-partisan civil liberties [orgs] in the [US]." 2/5
David is indeed one of my favorite people as well & I learned so much from working with him. FIRE tries to model genuine viewpoint diversity internally & I have learned endless lessons from working with smart, thoughtful folks on the other side of the political spectrum. 3/5
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