David M. Perry: In 2015 DeBoer wrote me to ask about restraining disabled children, to demand answers about when it might be ok. Given answers, he then of course never responded. I wrote about it here: www.davidmperry.com/restraint-fo...

In 2015 DeBoer wrote me to ask about restraining disabled children, to demand answers about when it might be ok. Given answers, he then of course never responded. I wrote about it here: www.davidmperry.com/restraint-fo...

I know the Cut thrives on 'contrarian' takes but this is some dangerous hot garbage at a moment when our rights are actively under attack.

Restraint for Safety vs Restraint for Punishment (And Freddie DeBoer) – This is David M. Perrywww.davidmperry.com

DeBoer was a bad faith writer then; later, he fabricated allegations of sexual assault against a different writer he disliked, then blamed his own mental illness on it. The target declined to sue for libel. DeBoer went quiet for a few years, worked in higher ed assessment, then returned to writing.

He's been writing this piece about liberal culture going too far for over ten years. It's been a great grift. Right in the Bari Weiss moneypit.

There are no consequences for lies other than, rarely, a few years out of the spotlight before roaring back into elite media.

As @angus.bsky.social said then and is true now: "Freddie is the kind of person who says “Give me an answer!” when he means “Admit that there are no answers!” But like I said in the post, the questions he’s asking aren’t new or unique to him." studentactivism.net/2015/01/31/f...

Real Answers for Freddie deBoerstudentactivism.net Freddie deBoer has posted two new essays since the one I replied to the other day. The first was a flawed but interesting discussion of the sometimes destructive role of overzealous allies in discu…

Isn't Deboer the guy in the 2000s who fled the blog balloon juice in a whiny snit when receiving minimal pushback from commentors?

He did, it was very funny.

Feels like there is an audience of a few thousand deep-pocketed disaffected liberals who want to read a version of "left too woke" over and over again no matter what is going on in the world

(And deleted the record of his eventual apology to MH, didn’t he?)

I don't know. Probably. Sounds like him.

Higher ed For gods' sake

He did what

man i only started working on restraint and seclusion issues in schools a couple years ago and it really is depressing how basically all of these punitive trends have only intensified since the time you wrote this

It is.

This is thoughtfully articulated and I envy the skill that went into it. It’s most important ableds remember that however they feel about someone’s disability, it never inconveniences them more than the one who has it.

Thanks for reading

This is a very good piece, David.

Great piece, David.

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