And I just noticed: the identical distortion of primary sources that prompted an editorial note to be attached to Flight 93 election guy Michael Anton’s op-ed! The same one that insurrection architect John Eastman has deployed for years! Cotter does it at 34:14 in this debate. A bit more below. - ThreadSky

evanbernick.bsky.social • 12 days ago

And I just noticed: the identical distortion of primary sources that prompted an editorial note to be attached to Flight 93 election guy Michael Anton’s op-ed! The same one that insurrection architect John Eastman has deployed for years! Cotter does it at 34:14 in this debate. A bit more below.

Reposted from Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a resolute floof

This debate happened at Georgetown yesterday. I was invited. I couldn't make it under any circumstance. I did ask why I'd be debating someone other than the obvious.

@ilyasomin.bsky.social did a great job. But there is no serious argument on the other side. www.youtube.com/live/cdAa8Gv...

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jerryedwards.bsky.social•12 days ago

You're telling me that I can't add one teensy little word that changes the meaning of the quote when I'm pretending to do history? Evan, be reasonable! 🙃

dankeevy.bsky.social•12 days ago

Wait I can't make up facts? What is this? Stalinist Russia?

jasonc99.bsky.social•12 days ago

I went to YouTube to watch the part you mentioned, and right below this video was another video of a fed soc debate about birthright citizenship in Arizona. Looks like they are going all over the place to try to normalize the idea that there is a "legitimate" debate about what this concept means

evanbernick.bsky.social•12 days ago

Here’s Eastman in NRO, characterizing a piece of evidence. Notice the “or.”

evanbernick.bsky.social•12 days ago

Here’s the full quote from Howard. See the “or”?

Of course you don’t, because it’s not fucking there, because Eastman is a liar. Howard is talking about one category of people, children of foreign administrators and diplomats. Everyone else, excepting Indians? They’re born here, they’re citizens.

evanbernick.bsky.social•12 days ago

Now here’s Anton getting called out for the same thing

evanbernick.bsky.social•12 days ago

Just read the record. Howard is talking about one category of people. He’s not creating a list.

evanbernick.bsky.social•12 days ago

Literally the only way you can convince people that this quote supports excluding undocumented folks from citizenship is by running through it so quickly that people don’t notice what you’re doing

evanbernick.bsky.social•12 days ago

If I ever do a debate on this I am going to insist that the actual quote be displayed on a large screen

namdoan.bsky.social•12 days ago

Wow, had never seen this. It feels insidious, but then again it's Eastman

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