{"id":43399,"date":"2025-12-28T10:15:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T16:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=43399"},"modified":"2025-12-28T10:15:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T16:15:21","slug":"lock-it-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/12\/28\/lock-it-in-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Lock It In Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The venerable Freddie deBoer, self-aware leftist, <a href=\"https:\/\/freddiedeboer.substack.com\/p\/if-the-personal-is-political-why\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has some remarks<\/a> on the following lefty generations (partial paywall, gives you a taste):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The idea that \u201cthe personal is political\u201d has proven to be one of the worst intellectual developments in the history of the left. I would argue that, more than any other ideological influence, this idea has underpinned the social justice turn in American liberalism, which has transformed the language and norms of contemporary left-of-center people and briefly the politics of the Democratic party. That famous little nostrum has ruled over a period of time in which any sense of politics as an exercise beyond and outside of the self has collapsed, leaving us with generations of progressive people who think that doing politics is all about feeling and not doing, who mistake posting black squares on Instagram and liking Frank Ocean for doing politics. \u201cThe personal is political\u201d is why people think that crying until the other person stops talking is an appropriate way to debate, why the representation of Black woman in the next season of\u00a0<em>Love is Blind\u00a0<\/em>is treated as a bigger deal than lead in the drinking water in Black communities, why autism and ADHD have become lifestyle trends with vague activist connotations, why an entire generation of culture writers churn out pieces about how Inspector Gadget is propaganda for white supremacy, why left-of-center American politics is so horribly\u00a0<em>immaterial<\/em>, why feelings have utterly eaten actual material oppression as the concern of the left. I\u2019m not a fan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had not thought about, nor observed, this. In a sense, <em>the personal is political<\/em> is anti-compromise; it admits no error as there is no appeal to shared thoughts, and so becomes anti-intellectual; as a failure to explore options, the left, like the right, becomes obdurate and arrogant in its pitiful world.<\/p>\n<p>This may require some meditation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The venerable Freddie deBoer, self-aware leftist, has some remarks on the following lefty generations (partial paywall, gives you a taste): The idea that \u201cthe personal is political\u201d has proven to be one of the worst intellectual developments in the history of the left. I would argue that, more than any \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/12\/28\/lock-it-in-place\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43401,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43399\/revisions\/43401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}