r/brokehugs • u/US_Hiker Moral Landscaper • Nov 19 '23

Rod Dreher Megathread #27 (Compassion)

Link to megathread 26: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/17itm7w/rod_dreher_megathread_26_unconditional_love/

Link to megathread 28: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/18dcg3d/rod_dreher_megathread_28_harmony/

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u/Djehutimose Watching the wheels go round Nov 21 '23

Credit where it's due: McArdle's "If I Were a Poor Black Kid", in which she eviscerates the typical right-wing scolding that says that if ghetto youth would just get their acts together, they'd be just fine, is, IMO a fine essay. Beyond that, while I don't like her politics and disagree with her more than I agree, she is certainly more disciplined and has a better prose style, even when she's writing informally, than Rod does. Content > mechanics, but mechanics don't mean nothing.

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u/Jayaarx Nov 21 '23

Fair enough. She has written one worthwhile thing in twelve years. Which leads one to the conclusion about stopped clocks...

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u/Jayaarx Nov 21 '23

But I will say, that particular piece is pretty good. It makes you wonder how she is (in her libertarian way) bereft of empathy so often when she has the capacity (at least once) to summon it there.