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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Apropos of the Harper's letter thing, I am baffled by many exchanges I see in my Twitter feed about it. Would appreciate any links to pieces that do a good job of explaining what each side thinks.

I think it's more a tribal thing than a what people think thing. The letter is very vague, and most of the Harpers' signatories are just kind of distraught that anyone would question them and don't explain themselves further, so there's a lovely free speech debate where everyone thinks everyone else should be more reasonable and also should stop saying reasonable things they don't mean because really there is something implicit in every post that is very sinister. It's sort of like a debate between Sebby and Kramer.

But check Popehat's thread on it for a good summary of the way the "issues" are being raised and response to it. Also, check out the threads of various Vox writers like Ezra Klein, Matty Yglesias and Emily VanDerWorff if you want to see just how insane it has gotten.