I do like the post where he was described as ”an arrogant, boorish, pot smoking, radical leftist” by someone who knew him them and he replied insisting he never smoked pot.

Like it could not be more obvious you see grooming gangs as a (racially charged) public spectacle and not as something that actually impacts the specific victims’ lives.

I feel maybe too defensive about this because I really do try to do the good thing when I can but I very sincerely do not believe that you can have a successful and ethical full-time career as a freelance writer right now, too many places are rotten! give us a bit of slack!

Also no one is demanding you fund their substack even if you aren’t interested in the content they produce.

I do not know much about contemporary Christianity

This is interesting.

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so its easier to, IMHO, stigmatize socially awkward and weird men and women for the problem (“brainless fans with no lives!” ) instead of, say, a competent and intelligent professional with a family who simply wants to turn off their brain

i think this does an enormous disservice because it posits “serious” art as austere and puritan and “low” art totally devoid of ambition/friction. which can and will become self fulfilling

It disastrous stuff. She bases her whole argument on the book of genesis and then doesn’t even bother to provide a page reference