<2021-06-21T20:22:20.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: Don't repeat this but Rod Dreher confided in me not too long ago that he and his wife are not doing well in terms of their relationship (this is the "spiritual burden" he referred to obliquely in a recent blog post). That's all he told me but it's increasingly impossible for me not to see this as at root a growing lack of respect that she has for him because he is such a spineless faggot. I've met Julie IRL a few times, she is a hard core Texan type and not in the LARPy way
<2021-06-21T20:25:18.000Z> mnswpr: i can't say that i knew this to be the case, but i will say that he noticeably doesn't talk about her as much as he used to. 
<2021-06-21T20:25:45.000Z> mnswpr: and i wondered for that reason. 
<2021-06-21T20:28:40.000Z> mnswpr: i'll be honest, this saddens me. as much as Rod is a detestable creature to me now, ive been following him for well over a decade 
<2021-06-21T20:29:02.000Z> mnswpr: and i know you've been following him for a long time too
<2021-06-21T20:29:22.000Z> mnswpr: this is what happens, Rod, you stupid, stupid faggot. 
<2021-06-21T20:30:05.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: Yes it's very sad
<2021-06-21T20:30:17.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: All the more so because it just doesn't have to be this way
<2021-06-21T20:31:11.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: He's spiked multiple of my comments that were nothing but links to the Wikipedia Early Life section of the Blues Clues tranny episode writer, the President of Viacom's "Kids and Family Entertainment" division, etc
<2021-06-21T21:27:12.000Z> mnswpr: all of this is even funnier given the kinds of people he consorted with years ago. Rod didn't always instantly react to antisemitism / racial politics so emotionally... i mean think of the people he interacted with back in his Crunchy Con days. i know guys who attended conferences with him years ago and he was not entirely against entertaining a racial angle to all of this, and was surprisingly tolerant of JQ talk 
<2021-06-21T21:28:57.000Z> mnswpr: this isn't to say he's ever been /ourguy/ in the truest sense but at least he wasnt a howling bloody murder every time someone talked about white interests 
<2021-06-21T23:36:35.000Z> mnswpr: ok not asking you to dox but i can't contain my interest any longer - how tf is Dreher telling you about his marriage issues 
<2021-06-22T00:33:15.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: Lmfao 
<2021-06-22T00:33:58.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: I live not far from him and met him several times at the Walker Percy Weekend
<2021-06-22T00:34:11.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: We established a good rapport, has since cooled a lot though 
<2021-06-22T00:54:26.000Z> mnswpr: cool. almost went to the Walker Percy Weekend one year with some friends but couldn't swing it 
<2021-06-22T01:01:00.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: We kept in fairly regular contact for a while. That particular disclosure came on a recent trip to New Orleans where he was doing some kind of joint lecture with Melissa Harris Perry lmao 
<2021-06-22T01:33:08.000Z> mnswpr: oh i remember that 
<2021-06-22T01:33:18.000Z> mnswpr: so yeah pretty recent shit 
<2021-06-22T01:34:36.000Z> mnswpr: damn so when you've spoken at length about Rod you actually know the man, damn. 
<2021-06-22T01:34:51.000Z> mnswpr: it must be quite disappointing to see it go this way 
<2021-06-22T02:07:10.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: You have no idea lol
<2021-06-22T02:14:36.000Z> DK_Dharmaraj: We've had very frank discussions about the BQ (though not the JQ). My wife is from Lesvos and it is being overrun. He's said in emails and in person that he agrees with me more than he can let on online
<2021-06-22T13:51:37.000Z> mnswpr: goddammit 
<2021-06-22T14:01:38.000Z> mnswpr: so his more recent anti-racism tack is self-preservation or do you think he's just trying to avoid even more personal turbulence 
<2021-06-22T14:02:23.000Z> mnswpr: i can see how one might try to avoid professional instability when things at home are already so tenuous 