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Talking Shit with Freddie deBoer: Freddie Wants to Believe

Fucking Cancelled

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The Rise and Fall of Second Wave Feminism

A lot of politically minded people and a lot of these movements sort of responded to this failure was to go internal, right? So the universities are a really big part of this. Everybody sort of like the discourses of radical feminism and radical anti-racism, etcetera, decamped for the interiors of comfortable humanities departments in universities where they could be more or less be safe. And if you violate these norms, you'll be shunned and sort of professionally destroyed, whatever. As I think that the influence of somebody like Chris Rufo, who's this evil Republican activist who's been doing all sorts of things in Florida,  that only lasts for so long.

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