2/ myself recommending to others. We got "of course, there’s the backchannel"https://medium.com/@jesse.singal/of-course-theres-the-backchannel-762790f9fce2 …
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1/ Freddie deBoer agreed to let me put his essays back on the live internet. I emailed him earlier today and asked if he'd ever thought of republishing them or allowing someone else to, and he gave me permission. I republished three that I come back to endlessly and often find
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3/ We got "the Iron Law of Institutions and the left"https://medium.com/@jesse.singal/the-iron-law-of-institutions-and-the-left-333c42c246af …
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4/ aaaaaaaaand we got my personal favorite, the classic "Planet of Cops." https://medium.com/@jesse.singal/planet-of-cops-50889004904d … These are important essays, now more than ever, and I'm glad Freddie let me resurrect them and hopefully bring them more readers. As goes without saying, and as I wrote to him, if
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5/ he ever wants to re-republish his work, I'll delete the bodies of these posts and link to the essays' new locations.
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Can you please, please, please republish the one about political violence? It was written in response to Emmett Rensin.
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lemme look for it tomorrow. i remember it being good. had one other request too
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Thank you very much.
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Would you have time to grab it from the latest archive version, drop in a Google doc, and fix the links? Then I'll take it to there and publish and promote? Will credit you for doing that part of the legwork however you want to be credited.
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I will do my best. I saw it somewhere but am not sure how to track it down.
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Yeah I'm having trouble picking up this one on archives like I could with the others. Originally seems to have lived here, fwiw https://medium.com/@freddiedeboer/they-call-that-the-soft-bigotry-of-low-expectations-emmett-5d37c4ab6424#.3ks8g9p6v …
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wait think i got it https://web.archive.org/web/20170628145257/https://medium.com/@freddiedeboer/they-call-that-the-soft-bigotry-of-low-expectations-emmett-5d37c4ab6424 … if you google doc i'll post
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Planet of Cops is so great. I hope he decides to come back online someday
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I DO NOT. At least not on social media. It destroys him. But more writing, yes. He's working on a book anyway
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Ugh, good point. Of course his mental health comes before this hell site
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eh, all good -- not everyone knows. also he was kinda a dick on twitter! but a brilliant essayest
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A massive, totally unnecessary dick! And also a totally essential writer. Yes, these can both be the same person. Looking forward to the book. Thanks for getting these back online in a better form than archive sites.
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Thanks much. Does he seem to be doing okay?
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overall I think he is, but I'm just basing that on his sporadic blog posts and our ffew email convos. never met him in person
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His posts on http://fredrikdeboer.com are still there - you just need a little directory traversal to read them.
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trying to find the ones I posted and not seeing them! if you can find lemme know
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