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KW's avatar

Freddie, I found you through the podcast Blocked and Reported (by Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog), and man oh man your writing has done so much for my mental health.

I'm a long time left-of-center person and have no desire to ever look in the GOP's direction. But goddamn it do I hate social media-fueled woke culture and cancel culture. I hate all the mobbing and shaming. And I REALLY HATE how most arts criticism (especially movies and TV) has devolved into this fucking circus where the only point of art is to express the "correct" message and how anything else is "problematic" at best or harmful at worst.

I've been driven insane by how seemingly the only mainstream people speaking out against this crap are right wing. We badly, desperately need actual left wing people to do the same. Thank you thank you THANK YOU for doing what you do.

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Matt Bruenig's avatar

I am always a bit puzzled by the claim that the police were invented to catch runaway slaves in America because there are of course countries other than America that also have police but never runaway slaves.

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