CategoryFreddie deBoer

• Nepotism in Hollywood is a product of chance and has been a problem for a long time.
• Complaining about nepo babies is not just a result of jealousy, but also an acknowledgement that they were given an unfair advantage.
• The odds of two members of the same immediate family both independently making it in Hollywood are very low.
• Ancillary benefits of nepotism include access to resources and financial stability.
• Responses to criticisms of nepotism should involve recognizing and being grateful for privileges while still taking advantage of them.
• We should use this opportunity to remind people that the myth of the self-made man is false, and that socioeconomic class is the greatest barrier to success.

Click HERE for original. Published December 22, 2022

• The use of the term “unhoused” as a euphemism for homelessness is becoming increasingly popular in progressive circles, but it is a mistake.
• The term “homeless” should be used instead, as it conveys a whole world of social and cultural and economic information that we have spent a lifetime processing.
• Avoiding the word “homeless” is ostensibly a matter of avoiding stigma, but homelessness should be stigmatized in order to generate a solution to the problem.
• The solution to homelessness is to end it, not to avoid talking about it in stark terms.

Click HERE for original. Published December 15, 2022