1/ Holy hell does @freddiedeboer nail the limitations of performative allyship. Damn.
I'd just add one thingpic.twitter.com/W8CotWfrxC
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@hoodedu FDB is not getting rich off his blog posts, I promise you. And you're skirting his actual argument, which is about effectiveness
@jessesingal He gets lots of social capital. And I'm not skirting his point. Read my essay, if you would.
@jessesingal I think it's deadly for the left to take a stand for purity and against community.
@hoodedu I agree. It's ridiculous to judge people based on whether or not they accept they have "privilege"
@jessesingal I think people really need to think about what they're saying when they insist that morality should be divorced
@jessesingal from communities or social organizations.
@hoodedu who is saying that?
@jessesingal is true that he doesn't do much other than criticize other leftists as either insufficiently socialist or generally ineffective
@jessesingal some of the Jacobins, like matt b., actually make substantive args about policy. Freddie mostly navel gazes and such.
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