David Bernstein ✓

@ProfDBernstein · Arlington, VA · joined 03 Dec 2013

My views are my own and do not reflect the views of my university or the state of Virginia.

36 727Followers

732Following

41 831Posts total

36.5KViews on collected posts

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David Bernstein ✓@ProfDBernstein4 Sep

As I pointed out in my book, "You Can't Say That!," the ACLU supported the Bob Jones revocation at the time, despite the obvious civil liberties problems it raised. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, I expect the ACLU will take the opposite position. https://t.co/1HWjpClm51 708 views · 9 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

David Bernstein ✓@ProfDBernstein4 Sep

It's worse than explicitly antisemitic, it's explicitly wanting Jewish institutions to be subject to intimidation and violence from DSA types, by singling out a nonprofit that protects Jewish institutions. They figure they can politically intimidate the authorities into not 2.4K views · 62 likes · 12 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

David Bernstein ✓@ProfDBernstein4 Sep

Ever time Jones tries to present the far left humanist case for “antizionism” his hardcore followers speak us and insist, no “we support genocidal islamists and extremist nationalists you would consider hardcore fascists in any other context.” https://t.co/1eHQgLZmh1 1.1K views · 49 likes · 8 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

David Bernstein ✓@ProfDBernstein4 Sep

If a commercial boycott is free speech, every civil rights law that bans private discrimination violates the first amendment. There is no viable distinction between “boycott” and “refuse to contract with.” 3.3K views · 72 likes · 10 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

David Bernstein ✓@ProfDBernstein4 Sep

Yes. 1.3K views · 12 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

David Bernstein ✓@ProfDBernstein3 Sep

I hadn't noticed this before, but the @dsa_losangeles platform is explicitly antisemitic. It singles out only one nonprofit security organization, Magen Am, a Jewish community group that protects synagogues and schools (and has nothing to do with Israel). https://t.co/glyq8R5ezj 27.6K views · 485 likes · 128 reposts · 19 replies Open on X →

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6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views1 876this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %5.11%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.45%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 876	924	2.03×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	5.11%	3.62%	1.41×
Engagement rate	2.45%	1.52%	1.61×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

27.6K3 Sep

1.3K4 Sep

3.3K

1.1K

2.4K

708

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.32%3 Sep

0.98%4 Sep

2.57%

5.64%

3.09%

1.98%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes75.9%689 in total

Reposts18.0%163 in total

Replies3.1%28 in total

Quotes1.2%11 in total

Bookmarks1.9%17 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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