Fair! I'm fine with her existing on this site -- i mean, my bar for "go away forever" is extremely high! -- but i don't think she should be held up as any kind of expert on what's "reactionary".
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Ellie may have been guilty to some degree of hyperbole in her criticism but her own critics were FAR MORE GUILTY She did not in fact say "You're not allowed to portray small towns without showing them to be fundamentalist fascist hellscapes"
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She did say that she finds this whole genre of bittersweet encomia to "the forgotten places of rural America" an alienating and problematic genre, one whose aesthetics often go totally unquestioned by people primed to lap that sad Bruce Springsteen Youngstown shit up And I agree
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