Mentions (13)
"There's a good Freddie DeBoer essay called 'The Gentrification of Disability', which I'm sure a lot of people here have read, but it's about how the public face of a disability will consist of the people least impaired by it."
"Hey Freddie de Boer if you reply to this post you owe me $3.50."
"He argues that contemporary protest culture often treats anger as political action when it is not. Expression, catharsis, and moral signaling take the place of strategy so people are just tweeting and posting but nothing happens."
"Reddit, Twitter, the NYT comments sections, even your precious Freddie DeBoer Substacks or whatever --- these are Fat Man's Clubs of the mind."
"I promise you, a 130 IQ Yale-educated poetry major has higher career earnings potential than 90% of the people here. Their 'impractical' major is much less important than their cognitive gifts. That's life."
"Maybe it's because the mimetic nature of online discourse makes these types of analyses completely unhinged and removed from everyday experience, as our pal Freddie deBoer has recently written."
"Another banger from Freddie DeBoer. It is disappointing to see how people have been organizing around his killings and to see the pushback from the "left" against state capacity for treatment. Not sure why the left and DSA are basically libertarians on this issue."
"Freddie deBoer is a cool and talented writer. I like his prose and his work on education a lot. I know he reads the sub sometimes; if you do see this, you are the man."
"Idk maybe it's because I only use substack to read like sam kriss and freddie deboer (and so i can tell myself I'm a writer) but it's scary seeing how ppl interpret the platform."
"And this is a big reason why I stop putting so much stock into Freddie DeBoer (stupidpol fav) as well and begin to dislike him. It is the assumption that our 'superstructure', the language and cultural framework we use to understand the natural world is eternal, or at least arrived at the most. corr"
"As far as I can tell, it is mostly populated by 40+-year-old conservatives, or self-descirbed classical liberals, or walkaway former Dems... It makes sense why they are reading Freddie, in light of this, because of course they will love his frequent criticism of wokeness, social justice politics, es"
"It makes sense why they are reading Freddie, in light of this, because of course they will love his frequent criticism of wokeness, social justice politics, establishment liberals, journalist histrionics etc."
"he posted an article today basically stating that none of the education reforms work and that there will always be an achievement gap due to inherent differences in intelligence."