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Here's something I've wanted to say for a long time: the leftist taboo against engaging with the problematic world beyond the cloister is a form of collectively enforced wing-clipping.
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This is called journalism. If you're going to cover a topic, you have to get well acquainted with that topic. This involves getting your hands dirty. And the result in Laurie Penny's case was the most sparkling, devastating piece on Milo ever produced.
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But many people on feminist/leftist Twitter were ready disown her in an instant over this. They were ready to excommunicate one of their best writers simply because she ventured too far into enemy territory.
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This is so much worse than useless. You're sitting atop your cloister tower, lobbing rocks at your own best advocates, people on the front lines doing the difficult work of studying and engaging with society at large.
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I'm not saying my work is as important as Laurie Penny's, or that I am the most important person involved in this conversation by any means. My work is mostly limited to the weird little world of YouTube—or at least it was until I got some mainstream press coverage yesterday.
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But if you're someone who's going to disown me over engaging with problematic people or debating with "the enemy," I do not need you around. Please unfollow me now. I solemnly swear I will never stop disappointing you.
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Much of what I saw was specifically critical of her framing them as "lost boys," which is a common, infantilization that reduces their culpability.
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the "lost boys" title was a reference to his teenage entourage, who were literally boys taken in by him. I don't think the title included or excused Milo.
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I don't think it's the lefts fault people are dubious about others in an era of Laci's and "meet the dapper young fascists" Nat
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yeah but there's a difference between "dapper young fascists" authors or "don't TERFs have a point?" vloggers and people who merely interview/debate/engage with the opposition. It is the left's responsibility to make that distinction.
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> lacy green ... gate? it was the same thing "i want to debate the ›enemy‹" "HOW DARE YOU"
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Not really, she dated an alt reich guy and started spewing trans denial and anti-Islam rhetoric while claiming to still be a figurehead
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