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Check out part of his conclusion here: https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/894768062682980353 https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/894768062682980353

by abnry 9y ago

throwanem 9y ago
I fear I may have done the man a disservice.
- abnry 9y ago
  Unfortunately, as long as you have a bit of an open mind, it's not your fault. The media deliberately misrepresented what he wrote.
  - throwanem 9y ago
    Yeah, but the point I'm making is that on the one hand, I know to account for that, and on the other, I expected better of deBoer. That by me is the really galling part - despite that he's still deeply committed to the progressive ideology, he's struck me as a generally accurate observer and honest reporter until now. I'm both surprised and disappointed to discover he is not reliably so, and that I'll henceforth have to source and backcheck him with the same care I'm accustomed to using everywhere else. Which is fine, but...I don't know. I suppose I have a hope or two pinned on the guy possibly being open to the kind of good-faith-on-both-sides reconciliation that's going to have to start somewhere if there's to be a chance of resolving the current political polarization in a marginally civilized way. In particular, his recent comments on the subject of academic ostracism of political dissent, and how that's a terrible idea both ethically and pragmatically, have given me a strongly favorable impression - and since he's a lecturer at CUNY, that he should say such things seems to me to count for a considerable deal more than when a mouthy unlettered redneck such as myself, for example, does so. I don't know. Maybe he just slipped, too - he's on vacation this week, so perhaps he just didn't look into the matter as closely as he should've, same as I didn't. But it's a little discouraging all the same.

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Check out part of his conclusion here: https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/894768062682980353 https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/894768062682980353

by abnry 9y ago

Check out part of his conclusion here: https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/894768062682980353 https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/894768062682980353

throwanem 9y ago
I fear I may have done the man a disservice.
- abnry 9y ago
  Unfortunately, as long as you have a bit of an open mind, it's not your fault. The media deliberately misrepresented what he wrote.
  - throwanem 9y ago
    Yeah, but the point I'm making is that on the one hand, I know to account for that, and on the other, I expected better of deBoer. That by me is the really galling part - despite that he's still deeply committed to the progressive ideology, he's struck me as a generally accurate observer and honest reporter until now. I'm both surprised and disappointed to discover he is not reliably so, and that I'll henceforth have to source and backcheck him with the same care I'm accustomed to using everywhere else. Which is fine, but...I don't know. I suppose I have a hope or two pinned on the guy possibly being open to the kind of good-faith-on-both-sides reconciliation that's going to have to start somewhere if there's to be a chance of resolving the current political polarization in a marginally civilized way. In particular, his recent comments on the subject of academic ostracism of political dissent, and how that's a terrible idea both ethically and pragmatically, have given me a strongly favorable impression - and since he's a lecturer at CUNY, that he should say such things seems to me to count for a considerable deal more than when a mouthy unlettered redneck such as myself, for example, does so. I don't know. Maybe he just slipped, too - he's on vacation this week, so perhaps he just didn't look into the matter as closely as he should've, same as I didn't. But it's a little discouraging all the same.