1/ my tardy, obligatory take on kindergarten Thermidor – this is about updating the criteria for counter-revolutionaries, not free speech

— Jonathan Zhou (@Zhou___) May 23, 2016

2/ I see some on the centre-right express sympathy for our petit Robespierre – he would guillotine you in an instant, why bother

— Jonathan Zhou (@Zhou___) May 23, 2016

3/ the reigning purge-manuals specify that you can only harass and defame people for being sexist or racist, not classist

— Jonathan Zhou (@Zhou___) May 23, 2016

4/ they simply want to add "classist" to that list, perhaps even on top of it https://t.co/MINBO8Vb6z

— Jonathan Zhou (@Zhou___) May 23, 2016

5/ the further you drift from the political center, the more you see violence as a necessity – almost no exceptions pic.twitter.com/a6UY0qyiTf

— Jonathan Zhou (@Zhou___) May 23, 2016

6/ I know this because I can relate to it personally – I'll be deliberately vague out of deference to my new followers –

— Jonathan Zhou (@Zhou___) May 23, 2016

7/ the closest intelligible analogue to Marxist bloodlust I can think of is the neoliberal relish for layoffs and offshoring

— Jonathan Zhou (@Zhou___) May 23, 2016

8/ side-suppliers see job-loss as an index of efficiency, jacobins see the heads rolling as a speedometer for the expedition of "history"

— Jonathan Zhou (@Zhou___) May 23, 2016

9/ "economic adjustment" can be horrifying for the losers – divorce, drug addiction, suicide, depression are all universal aftereffects

— Jonathan Zhou (@Zhou___) May 23, 2016

10/ the tankies see their political enemies as Objectivists see public school teachers

— Jonathan Zhou (@Zhou___) May 23, 2016

11/ if our petite Robespierre "wins," it won't be a victory for free speech, but for "class" as an axis of oppression

— Jonathan Zhou (@Zhou___) May 23, 2016

12/ which would only add a new dimension to the hypertrophic scholasticism that is contemporary identity politics discourse

— Jonathan Zhou (@Zhou___) May 23, 2016

13/ it's enticing for the right in the short term – you can use "working class" creds to stick it to the AEI crowd – but it's very dangerous

— Jonathan Zhou (@Zhou___) May 23, 2016

14/ poor whites are far from being the poorest in the world – "class" as a value could easily be twisted to support open borders

— Jonathan Zhou (@Zhou___) May 23, 2016

15/ the white working class could easily be redefined as bourgeois, for instance – only third worlders constitutes the "real" proletariat

— Jonathan Zhou (@Zhou___) May 23, 2016

16/ "white feminist," meet "first-world proletariat"

— Jonathan Zhou (@Zhou___) May 23, 2016

17/ but the main point I want to make is that civility and tolerance doesn't necessarily beget civility and tolerance

— Jonathan Zhou (@Zhou___) May 23, 2016

18/ @MattBruenig would jail his erstwhile capitalist-roader, pro-free speech defenders without a second thought, and I get that

— Jonathan Zhou (@Zhou___) May 23, 2016

19/ I'm not sentimental about the effete https://t.co/rkbdhVnbha libertarians shielding the right – on judgment day, I wouldn't hesitate–

— Jonathan Zhou (@Zhou___) May 23, 2016

20/ tl;dr whether or not "class" becomes a sacred value, free speech won't benefit; radicals feel zero gratitude toward classical liberals

— Jonathan Zhou (@Zhou___) May 23, 2016