David M. Perry: 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.

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

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