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Re:The cancel culture Twitter mob comes to economics by dsun179 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @05:14AM (#23537240)
Just delete twitter, than you do not have to read this garbage. Same for other social media.
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Re:The cancel culture Twitter mob comes to economics by andybak on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @05:16AM (#23537254)
This is about somebody's career being seriously affected by something they wrote that at any other time would have been a fairly reasonable opinion to hold.
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Re:The cancel culture Twitter mob comes to economics by Tomte on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @05:16AM (#23537253)
Sure, Uhlig didn't have to read that stuff on Twitter. How would that have saved his editorship of the journal? Twitter feuds have real-life consequences.
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