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One key takeaway from The Twitter Files is what I call THE MIDWIT MIRE: the time consuming slog of supposed “reasonable” “procedure” & “dialogue” resulting in the supposed “moderation” of “compromise” that inevitably concludes with the victory of radical ideologies. I’ll explain: twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Not as if Twitter simply did whatever the feds wanted. In fact, they did put up some resistance. Many different kinds of people involved, but a lot of typical elite-jobbed people like Yoel Roth, etc. consider themselves objective and moderate, with an eye to organized processes.

This is similar in a certain elite college admin type, many younger c-suite types who come out of those schools, etc., etc.

When conflict arises, they see “both sides”. They will “dialogue” and quickly set up a supposed rational process to find and achieve “shared goals”…

Everyone sees the activist types who are just outright radicals without apology. But I want to emphasize this: that’s *not* who I’m talking about.

You need to realize the elite midwit (either by nature or training) actually believes in their objectivity & process over principle -- excerpt, rest at link above --