I started to emotionally write off this new strain of the economically-minded hard left (that is, Jacobin readers) when some of...
I started to emotionally write off this new strain of the economically-minded hard left (that is, Jacobin readers) when some of them became stridently anti-Hamilton purely because the wrong sort of liberal liked it.
I’ve started to write off Freddie DeBoer as his putative materialism reads more and more like cover for a politics of status
Yeah, I saw that exchange.
The Heavenly Wrath mode of emoting that apparently fuels this sort of politics is very hard to sustain without veering off into just being a prick. If you aren’t absolutely on point then you’re just making cheap shots.
It’s been a little remarkable to watch deBoer go from castigating snark-as-politics to falling in with Twitter dudes who make the right sort of jokes.
Well I’ve been thinking for a while that he needed to get more sarcastic and vicious and I’m happy to see it.