9 people sit down at a table. A known Nazi sits down at the table too. No one leaves. What do you have? 10 Nazis.
I love HCR and Snyder is of course anything but sympathetic to Nazi views. But their popularity is enabling Nazi profits! Breaks my heart, but it's true.
O.k. so I am going to find some information on who they are and what their net worth is. I just find it hard to believe that my favorite anti-fascist analysts are in league with a fascist enterprise.
I'm reminded of this idea... "In the 1930s Germans had a name for people who disliked Hitler's bigotry & extreme rhetoric, stayed away from his rallies, but supported his economic policies. They were called Nazis." Also one idiom about dogs and fleas.
So, you are suggesting that Timothy Snyder, Heather Cox Richardson, Robert Reich and Dan Rather all support a fascist enterprise by using Substack to publish their work. You go so far as to suggest they're closeted Nazis? Idunno, man. It sounds absurd to me.
I don't know, but I don't think they're biased in favor of fascists. I could be wrong about Substack, but I think Snyder would leave quickly if they were pro fascist. Probably HCR would be gone just as fast.
I think allowing hate speech is very different from favoring it. It's not good to allow it, and I don't like it. So far, I don't see evidence that Substack is primarily a right-wing platform.
There was a (probably apocryphal) story of a bartender who saw a man with a vaguely Nazi-adjacent Tshirt enter the bar. He threw him out at once, over his protestations of innocence. When an astonished patron questioned him he explained 1/
…that it always started with one guy in a kind of Nazi shirt, or tattoo. Then it was another, and another, and then it was known as a Nazi bar. It’s not about some fine difference between ‘allowing’ or ‘favoring.’ It’s about who you let into the establishment. /2
Well, if they do, I will follow them. I care about the content rather than the platform. I left FB and all Meta platforms. I left Twitter/X. I stopped using Amazon and I closed my account. We'll see about Substack.
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I love HCR and Snyder is of course anything but sympathetic to Nazi views. But their popularity is enabling Nazi profits! Breaks my heart, but it's true.
It’s been widely reported on
Nazis that are already billionaires.
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