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🇺🇸 | Biology, BS 🧬 | Law Student ⚖️
Jun 2, 2020 71 tweets 28 min read
What is immoral is believing it's just to violate the rights of the innocent in some perverse pursuit of "social justice". It is deeply saddening that this illiberalism has risen to such prominence in contemporary political discourse

#TuesdayThoughts
#BlackLivesMatter
#riots2020 Truly abhorrent.

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Feb 15, 2019 73 tweets 68 min read
@Cameron_Gray On account of potential deletions, here are a few screenshots of tweets from politicians: @Cameron_Gray
Jan 13, 2019 22 tweets 6 min read
@AOC's obsession w/ identity politics is sickening. Her focus on the racial composition of journalists assigned to the 2020 election by @CBSNews and suggestion that journalist's race is to be taken into account is abhorrent.

#SaturdayThoughts
#IdentityPolitics
#OcasioCortez When you judge people by individual merit (competency, experience, qualifications), it is impossible to ensure that racial quotas ("diversity") are satisfied. The only way to ensure that each identity group is given proper "representation" is to discriminate against people on...
Dec 11, 2018 21 tweets 17 min read
@JeffreyASachs @jasonintrator @bariweiss To address the assertions presented in the article, it is important to establish what is violence. Violence is the utilization of physical force to inflict harm or injury. This is something words can never do. The article itself is predicated on the idea that long-term... @JeffreyASachs @jasonintrator @bariweiss ...exposure to stress can lead to harm, therefore words that cause said stress could be considered violence. However, for this idea to hold, there must be a definitive criteria of terminology that can be utilized to categorize words that cause harm. The author of the article...
Nov 30, 2018 10 tweets 3 min read
The problem that these authoritarian ideologues do not seem to understand is that prohibitions on speech are arbitrary by nature. If suppression of particular viewpoints is deemed acceptable, then discourse will no longer be possible.

#FridayThoughts
#FreeSpeech
#Politics This absurd desire for censorship appears to be predicated on the idea that the dissemination of extremist ideas shall inevitably result in violence or radicalization. Of course, this is simply not the case. Those who utilize said ideas as a justification to perpetrate crimes...