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Musa al-Gharbi
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Sociologist @Columbia. Other cool stuff.
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100%. I’m working on something now on just this point.
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No one said they can’t be compared. Hitler comparisons are just boring, lazy and overused across the board. So I take them as a sign that the conversation I’m engaged in is not worth continuing. And I take my leave. Ditto with Stalin and Mao comparisons.
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But she is also right that she is far from alone in her experience l. I also had many others beside her voice similar concerns during and after, in person and online. And I think it’s worth surfacing as I did.
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I would not have published this essay if I it didn’t ring true, if I hadn’t personally observed the behaviors she’s describing. It’s not the only perspective on the conference to be had. Again, most including most conservatives I talked do during and after had a different exp.
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Last thing I’ll say on this stuff (4th of July— have other fish to fry... literally!) is that I’m not out there looking to bash HxA or anything for its own sake. I have a strong interest in portraying the conference in a positive light (I helped put it together)!
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Although we only have the plenary sessions online. There were also a number of breakout sessions etc. that were not recorded. And in which I also observed this behavior among panelists
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There is, 100%, a lot of symmetry here in terms of hyperbole and lack of charity. I have drawn attention to this in a lot of my essays as well. These tendencies must be resisted wherever they show their heads.
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We have made him the locus around which much of our society revolves in a way that goes far beyond his role as POTUS. And we don't actually have to do this. I think we would all be a lot better off if we didn't let Trump dominate our minds and discourse in this way.
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It is of orders of magnitude different, as I'm showing in a forthcoming essay looking at how he is evoked in the NYTimes. I did a thread on it earlier: twitter.com/Musa_alGharbi/…
We've made him the center of our lives in a way that is categorically different than other presidents
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Many of the evocations of Trump were not substantive critiques of policy. They were often just expressions of displeasure about him. I think we all need to learn how to not make Trump the center of everything, actually. How we talk about him is not the same as other presidents.
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He is actually one of the founders. But of course, it must be asserted his tweets do not represent official positions of Heterodox Academy. Nor do mine for that matter!
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We'll do the same next year based on feedback from this cycle. I'll add, most of the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. But we do take concerns/ criticisms seriously.
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We can't control what people say, nor how they react. So a lot of that was outside of our control. But we did make some changes based on criticisms from last year, as I explore here: twitter.com/Musa_alGharbi/…
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Criticizing, I'm all for. I do a lot of it myself! But the performative stuff just kills me.
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Aaand we're at Hitler comparisons. Cool. That didn't take long. This is generally the point of conversations where I get bored and check out. And I'll do so here too. But I will say, this was not a charitable description of her argument.
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Obama, Clinton and Trump are *comparable* because they are both of the same genre (i.e. presidents/ presidential contenders). But to make a comparison between them on this basis is not to declare them 'virtually the same.' Comparable and equivalent are different things.
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One need not say Trump and Obama are the same in terms of policy or anything else to ask whether Obama supporters would feel welcome in an environment where people were ritualistically evoking and bashing Obama.
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No, it does not. To compare two things is not to draw an equivalency between them.
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It is one thing to reject Trump. It is another thing to make a performance out of it, inserting him into conversations about other topics for the purpose of ritualistically expressing your disgust, and allowing others to do the same.
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I do not think the author was drawing an equivalency. She was merely asking whether someone who supported Obama or Hillary would feel their views were welcome or respected in an environment where people were constantly and needlessly evoking and bashing them.
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