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Jun 2 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
I am becoming slowly radicalized by this

I have lefty friends who have said without qualification that Elon Musk is an anti-Semite and a Nazi but then their response to the actual racially targeted murder of Jews is "hey guys, this isn't helping"
They're not vocally pro-Jew-murder. They just kind of shuffle uncomfortably in their seats b/c they're smart enough to know that this violence is being fed by their rhetoric but they don't think they should be held responsible for it.
Which, to be fair, I don't think they should be held responsible for it either

At least I didn't. But you cannot have it both ways. You can't say that Team A engages in dog whistles and Nazi salutes but Team B deserves the benefit of the doubt

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Nov 16
Here is Roger Ebert's first paragraph of his review for "The Mummy" and it is why he was the greatest film critic to ever live Image
Ebert was a gem and I will never hear a word against him. He loved movies. He loved stupid movies and brilliant movies. He loved trash and genius. He loved watching directors pour their heart out onto the screen, even if they failed.
"Ebert was a woke lib" I don't give a shit

Ebert is the guy who pointed me to @MarkSteynOnline b/c he saw that Steyn was a good movie critic. Ebert recognized that in Steyn b/c Ebert wasn't a hack. He was a hard-core liberal but he knew movies and he respected them.
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Oct 1
Ta-Nehisi Coates and I agree that there is a line. When people cross the line, conversation between the two sides is no longer possible. That line for both of us is the dehumanization of others.

For me, that means celebrating their death, believing that the world is a better place without them

For Coates, that means "hurling epitaphs" at people

youtu.be/UaeoDlLNnok?si…
This is *extremely* instructive

My hard line is you have to believe that the world is better if I am alive

Coates' hard line is that you have to use the proper pronouns. Coates' hard line is "my team has to win or you are beyond saving"
In the Ezra Klein interview, Coates plainly says that the vast majority of the right is on "the other side of the line"

I say it is only those who celebrate murder (which all my favorite liberals tell me that is a tiny fraction of the left)

This is good to know
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Sep 18
OK @CatoInstitute , we need to have a talk

I'm looking into the data source for this chart, which was used by @Time magazine.

Time links to this Cato article on politically motivated violence

cato.org/blog/political…
I read through it, scan down to a table where I'd like to investigate the source. I click "Get the data" and I get... the same table, but in Excel format

Give me a break. That's just sloppy.
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Sep 18
This account looks like it's run by an unstable schizophrenic but that's just because I'm constantly trying to talk both about what *should* happen and also what *is* happening

Both those things are important but they are very different
There are tons of things that should happen but that won't happen because we've spent years dissolving the preconditions that make the "should" possible
How do we get the "should" back? I don't know.

But I've watched a lot of people over the last 15 years try to get the "should" back and their main strategy is "give something to my opponent to show I'm operating in good faith and then we can barter"
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Aug 16
This is disingenuous. Have you been to the Smithsonian museums recently? Almost every exhibit is left-coded and makes constant reference to left-wing politics

They want the GOP to leave all their cultural victories inn place and not complain. No dice.
The Museum of American History has a costume from Storm in "X-Men: Days of Future Past" & the caption is (I'm not making this up)

"As #BlackLivesMatter went viral in the summer of 2014, one of the first Black woman superheroes was fighting discrimination on the big screen"
They have the egg from Alien and the blurb says the Alien series "pointed to the burden carried by working mothers - then and now - to do it all" Image
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Jul 28
The "Nazi bar" problem can be easily re-purposed to become the "gay church" problem Image
There is something I don't like about people who can't see the obvious next steps of their own metaphors

Do you really want to set up a world the way you're suggesting? Because other people will follow suit and they will do so with the rationalizations you gave them
All I'm asking is for people to take 30 seconds to think through the implications of their goofy little story

Fake smart people are *terrible* at this. They see the story and think "oh wow, this is powerful and can have only one possible application"

Real smart people see that the principle encased in the metaphor applies to other situations
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