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Alice Munro is Dead - Freddie deBoer

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In early 2021, when the world was still 2020ing, I made a mistake: I engaged politically with that which had been intended emotionally. I treated feelings as if they were politics. There was a lot of that going around. I was unemployed and still almost entirely stuck at home. The rules about what you were actually prohibited from doing and what you were merely socially discouraged from doing, at that point in the pandemic, were vague and shifting but no less powerful for it. I had no job and I had no money, only time. Despite having nothing to do but read all day, I was increasingly unsure of what was happening politically, of what people wanted and how they thought they might get it. This was when both the George Floyd era and the Covid era were in the late stages of their full bloom - the radlib control of the national narrative was still powerful, but no longer total. Far-right discursive spaces had rejected Covid precautions and calls for racial justice from the beginning, of cours

Alice Munro is Dead Freddie deBoer Jul 10, 2024 467 213 Share In early 2021, when the world was still 2020ing, I made a mistake: I engaged politically with that which had been intended emotionally. I treated feelings as if they were politics. There was a lot of that going around. I was unemployed and still almost entirely stuck at home. The rules about what you were actually prohibited from doing and what you were merely socially discouraged from doing, at that point in the pandemic, were vague and shifting but no less powerful for it. I had no job and I had no money, only time. Despite having

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