one thing that feels sad to me about Freddie (there are several) does he have a place in the world? or "fans" even he seems isolated he doesnt seem to have a home in todays left, and mostly people who dislike that New New Left dont agree with him. and he has Opinionshttps://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/1430528146890182661 …
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Replying to @eigenrobot
wtf is Megan talking about the left policing their violent fringe??? does she know anything about post ww2 European or American history, jtfc
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Replying to @SamSamSamBarnes @eigenrobot
Some good conversation about it in the comments of the substack article. I think the issue here is that both her and Freddie are Gen X activists? People who were most involved in political activism in the 90s, when this was true (or more true, relative to any other time period).
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Because yeah, it's pretty obvious the left has done a terrible job of policing it's violent fringe in the past too. Like they *just* pardoned a dude who was a getaway driver for the left's supposedly well-policed "violent fringe".
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for many years the left was almost nothing but violent fringe. even mainstream pop culture (movies, tv shows, even books) are full of these examples. you'd have to have consumed none of that, let alone read any history, to think what she said is accurate
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I'm not even mad at the left's past violence: they did what they did, many paid the price, political activism can get fucked up & messy like that. but to claim it wasn't there, or it was "policed effectively" is just retarded when it was objectively a powerful driving force
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i probably resent the violent left as much as or more than you do but these are not well crafted arguments
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I'm afraid to ask you to elaborate and get told "no" but what the heck, can you elaborate?
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I gotta get to work and its unfortunately a long-winded and boring line of thought. but I do appreciate you asking :)
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