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Kelsey Piper
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If not for the Brenden Eich and James Damore cases and not for Lina Khan's FTC I think the tech swing right never happens. (the crypto people maybe. I think the crypto people think they got treated poorly because of Warrenites and really it's because of SBF.)
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Jacob Bloom
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I had forgotten about this guy. With the gift of hindsight I think this was probably one of those key points where the woke left over played its hand. x.com/KelseyTuoc/sta…
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Kelsey Piper
@KelseyTuoc
I also want to say - I don't know anyone who got the Eich and Damore cases right because they correctly anticipated the left would provoke a destructive backlash. Everyone I know who got them right did it through a principled commitment to old-fashioned liberalism.
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Kelsey Piper
@KelseyTuoc
There is a consequentialist case for not overreaching yourself. But people are pretty bad at calculating this stuff. In practice, the advice I'd give someone isn't 'carefully calculate what will trigger backlash'. It's -
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Kelsey Piper
@KelseyTuoc
Have something in your heart that sings of pluralism, of small-l liberalism, of live and let live, of the social technologies that did as much as the plow to build the modern world. And when you know something is wrong, speak up.
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