That was a great piece. Any friend of Freddie’s is a friend of mine.
I don’t really know who Alex Jones is (beyond the name and that he’s a bugbear of some sort to the Left) but the two women are the hosts of Red Scare. If you don’t listen to it you should. If you like Freddie deBoer, you’ll like Red Scare.
Freddie is such an awesome writer, that paragraph with the "army of grinning goblins" was just perfect. In all seriousness, from just my personal acquaintances I know several people who are pretending to be much more woke than they really are, or at least have one or two pretty sensible reservations that they are not so eager to talk about.
My Mom used to say: “Don’t worry- they’ll grow out of it,” whenever one of my younger siblings had a tantrum -but that didn’t stop it from being exhausting.
By both inclination and upbringing, I am reluctant to put out too much information.
But with the censors bullying, I have gotten much more vocal.
A couple months ago, I declared on this site that I am to the right of ...(can't remember the exaggeration that I used).
Not because my beliefs are particularly relevant, but because I am tired of enforced correctness.
(Not a brave act, this site is courteous.)
But I take a stand on most every site (again, not brave since in my situation I am safe from everything except offended feelings).
I see a lot of people doing the same thing.
Now, if we could just get all these contrary people to be courteous...
That was a great piece. Any friend of Freddie’s is a friend of mine.
I don’t really know who Alex Jones is (beyond the name and that he’s a bugbear of some sort to the Left) but the two women are the hosts of Red Scare. If you don’t listen to it you should. If you like Freddie deBoer, you’ll like Red Scare.
Fifteen birds in five fir-trees,
their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze!
what funny little birds, they had no wings!
Oh what shall we do with the funny little things?
Freddie is such an awesome writer, that paragraph with the "army of grinning goblins" was just perfect. In all seriousness, from just my personal acquaintances I know several people who are pretending to be much more woke than they really are, or at least have one or two pretty sensible reservations that they are not so eager to talk about.
Freddie turned off comments on that post, so I put it here:
What Freddie describes sounds like the same impulses that Trump harnessed, so I’m not sanguine about the outcome, even if I cannot stand wokeness.
My Mom used to say: “Don’t worry- they’ll grow out of it,” whenever one of my younger siblings had a tantrum -but that didn’t stop it from being exhausting.