In Defense of Punching Left

I’m a liberal. I’ve always been a liberal…

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“Don’t punch left” is the core tenet of Solidarity, a new book by Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix. In a laudatory interview with the Washington Post, Hunt-Hendrix said the book was aimed not only at progressives in general but also specifically at liberals who criticize the left, naming me and newsletter author Matthew Yglesias as “falling into the right’s divide-and-conquer strategy.”

I read a couple more paragraphs and I had to stop. I forgot what a terrible writer he is. The article is like reading a textbook that lectures you.

r/neoliberal thread

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    34·
    6 months ago

    Why use a euphemism here?

    I’ll assume you’re serious. His wife is very pro-charter schools and people always needle him about that on Twitter so he’s always very evasive on that topic.

    • Hexagons [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
      12·
      6 months ago

      But then why ever talk about it at all? He didn’t need to bring it up in this article. I dunno, I’m sure I’ll never get a satisfying answer. Probably even Jonathan Chait doesn’t understand why he does the things that he does