It is simply not true that radical leftists took over all major institutions and use them to crush the right, and mainstream figures should stop being afraid to say so
Surely there are non-nazis who write there as well. I hear people in podcast interviews plug their substack and I’m talking people who side with Palestinians, advocate for free healthcare, and endorse collective bargaining.
Black and white thinking is literally Nazi ideology. I agree, Nazi content should be shunned and banned without hesitation, but isolating yourself from information because of someone else’s actions or opinions is insane to me.
That’s a big cost to yourself in exchange for accomplishing nothing, but best of luck I guess.
Not really sure about this bar metaphor - no bar I’ve ever been to has some system to make sure people aren’t Nazis before serving them, but hard to imagine that makes them all “Nazi bars.” And that seems fine - I don’t think I’d want to rely on the political judgment of either bar owners or substack executives to decide who’s worthy of patronizing their business anyway even if it was practical.
I see where you’re getting confused. It’s not a metaphor. It’s meant to be taken absolutely literally.
If you run a bar and you allow a person who openly and unabashedly espouses nazi rhetoric to feel welcome at your bar, he will let all his shitheel nazi friends know that your bar is a safe place for them to openly and unabashedly espouse their nazi rhetoric unchallenged. You are now running a nazi bar.
The metaphor is the comparison of a blogging platform to a bar. Substack is not a bar, it’s a website, hence your description of it as a “Nazi bar” is a metaphor. You’re analogizing how to behave if you own a bar to how to behave if you own a website. The problem with that being a) website and bars are very different and b) you’re not even really describing bars realistically.
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Surely there are non-nazis who write there as well. I hear people in podcast interviews plug their substack and I’m talking people who side with Palestinians, advocate for free healthcare, and endorse collective bargaining.
It’s a reference to this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/TalesFromYourServer/comments/hsiisw/kicking_a_nazi_out_as_soon_as_they_walk_in/
And here’s one referencing substack specifically:
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/14/substack-ceo-chris-best-doesnt-realize-hes-just-become-the-nazi-bar/
Black and white thinking is literally Nazi ideology. I agree, Nazi content should be shunned and banned without hesitation, but isolating yourself from information because of someone else’s actions or opinions is insane to me.
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That’s a big cost to yourself in exchange for accomplishing nothing, but best of luck I guess.
Not really sure about this bar metaphor - no bar I’ve ever been to has some system to make sure people aren’t Nazis before serving them, but hard to imagine that makes them all “Nazi bars.” And that seems fine - I don’t think I’d want to rely on the political judgment of either bar owners or substack executives to decide who’s worthy of patronizing their business anyway even if it was practical.
I see where you’re getting confused. It’s not a metaphor. It’s meant to be taken absolutely literally.
If you run a bar and you allow a person who openly and unabashedly espouses nazi rhetoric to feel welcome at your bar, he will let all his shitheel nazi friends know that your bar is a safe place for them to openly and unabashedly espouse their nazi rhetoric unchallenged. You are now running a nazi bar.
The metaphor is the comparison of a blogging platform to a bar. Substack is not a bar, it’s a website, hence your description of it as a “Nazi bar” is a metaphor. You’re analogizing how to behave if you own a bar to how to behave if you own a website. The problem with that being a) website and bars are very different and b) you’re not even really describing bars realistically.