I can't read The Atlantic anymore. I can't watch MSNBC. I am embarrassed by Stanford, of which I was a formerly proud alum. I look to Substack, The Free Press and their many writers who don't push an ideology on the rest of us. I am not a Nazi, or Antifa, or BLM. I am simply a rational American looking for the voices that will save our republic.
If Jonathan Katz is really a stunning and brave reincarnation of Simon Wiesenthal he has plenty of flesh-and-blood Jew haters he can go confront right now—they are out in force in the Harvard library, at his local Antifa/DSA meetings, at all the various protests popping up in NYC and LA, and even nearby to where he shops at Zabars, standing out front or a few stops uptown at Columbia.
Since of course he will never do this, I have no choice but to think he's not only a scold and censor, he's a coward too.
With censorship, it’s always about who gets the power to evaluate, not what’s being censored. The choice isn’t between getting rid of a few obvious Nazis, or not. It’s between giving someone like Jonathan Katz, or a bunch of Jonathan Katzes, sweeping power over content or not. Americans have always understood the second danger to be scarier, for good reason.
I actually went to Andons Reich Press after hearing of this Katz fellas call to censor nazis on substack. The article I perused, maybe a few weeks old had 6 likes and 1 comment. It seems the only nazi problem on substack is that nobody is all the interested in reading what they have to say. I’d venture to guess that Katz has the same issue here as well.
Be off with you Jonathan.....what you’re peddling can be found anywhere now. It’s sad, like an aging beauty queen, longing for her halcyon days and not realizing that the lipstick she keeps selecting calls out her advancing years and sell by date.
The last time I read an article in The Atlantic I was convinced that the author and editors had eaten a fresh batch of magic mushrooms and downed half a bottle of cheap amphetamines.
It started with the legitimization of the ridiculous term, "hate speech." There is no such thing as hate speech. Just speech. You may hate what someone says, but so what? Argue or ignore. No one has to support your delusions, agree with you, or even like you. All the laws and policies regarding this bullshit term are unconstitutional. Same goes for "hate crime." The laws need to apply to everyone EQUALLY. That's why the sybols for justice include scales and blindfolds. No extra points for "special" folks.
Is anyone else noticing a trend, when your opinion is not mainstream, you're deemed a "Nazi." I was just informed today, that I'm in a "cult," for supporting women's sex based rights, on the site for high minded intellectuals known as Instagram. This is while the president of Harvard supports a (literally) Nazi inspired, barbaric sex cult known as Hamas, backed by our CAUCASIAN enemies: the Iranian government as the left's youth are changing in the streets for the genocide of Jews. As a person who had a Jewish Grandfather who lived through WW2 Europe, and who's Mother and I (had I been alive at the time) would have been labeled "Mischling" by the Nazi's and burned along with them, I find this offensive and absurd. I wish these authoritarians wold get a real job, and let free speech be.
Ah, Jonathan Katz, one of the Good White Men (tm Freddie DeBoer). Who shall now come to our rescue by deliberately searching for a handful of Substacks with almost no readership and declare we have a problem that only he can solve.
(I don't like the term "white savior" but in Katz's case, it fits.)
This is why I subscribe to what you write, Matt. You're standing up for the rest of us against these authoritarian asswipes determined to tell the rest of us how to think, or else. Keep it up, friend. We're with you.
Seems to me that this (ahem) staggering intellect and their pro-censorship collaborators may wish to confine their hunt for Nazis to the one they see every morning while brushing their teeth.
I can't read The Atlantic anymore. I can't watch MSNBC. I am embarrassed by Stanford, of which I was a formerly proud alum. I look to Substack, The Free Press and their many writers who don't push an ideology on the rest of us. I am not a Nazi, or Antifa, or BLM. I am simply a rational American looking for the voices that will save our republic.
"Are their parents still doing their laundry?" I just shot an entire Coke Zero out my nose.
This was a fun read; I laughed out loud numerous times:
"Substack survived an “exodus” of about five writers..."
If Jonathan Katz is really a stunning and brave reincarnation of Simon Wiesenthal he has plenty of flesh-and-blood Jew haters he can go confront right now—they are out in force in the Harvard library, at his local Antifa/DSA meetings, at all the various protests popping up in NYC and LA, and even nearby to where he shops at Zabars, standing out front or a few stops uptown at Columbia.
Since of course he will never do this, I have no choice but to think he's not only a scold and censor, he's a coward too.
Oh dear, the midwits at The Atlantic are having a sad!
What ever happened this time, did Taibbi start hijacking people's browsers and forcing them to read Racket News again?
Is Lee Fang holding solid citizens' children hostage until they read his articles, so naughty?!?
This.
With censorship, it’s always about who gets the power to evaluate, not what’s being censored. The choice isn’t between getting rid of a few obvious Nazis, or not. It’s between giving someone like Jonathan Katz, or a bunch of Jonathan Katzes, sweeping power over content or not. Americans have always understood the second danger to be scarier, for good reason.
I actually went to Andons Reich Press after hearing of this Katz fellas call to censor nazis on substack. The article I perused, maybe a few weeks old had 6 likes and 1 comment. It seems the only nazi problem on substack is that nobody is all the interested in reading what they have to say. I’d venture to guess that Katz has the same issue here as well.
Be off with you Jonathan.....what you’re peddling can be found anywhere now. It’s sad, like an aging beauty queen, longing for her halcyon days and not realizing that the lipstick she keeps selecting calls out her advancing years and sell by date.
We should say to Katz what Elon told the advertisers...Go F@&! Yourself!
The last time I read an article in The Atlantic I was convinced that the author and editors had eaten a fresh batch of magic mushrooms and downed half a bottle of cheap amphetamines.
It started with the legitimization of the ridiculous term, "hate speech." There is no such thing as hate speech. Just speech. You may hate what someone says, but so what? Argue or ignore. No one has to support your delusions, agree with you, or even like you. All the laws and policies regarding this bullshit term are unconstitutional. Same goes for "hate crime." The laws need to apply to everyone EQUALLY. That's why the sybols for justice include scales and blindfolds. No extra points for "special" folks.
Is anyone else noticing a trend, when your opinion is not mainstream, you're deemed a "Nazi." I was just informed today, that I'm in a "cult," for supporting women's sex based rights, on the site for high minded intellectuals known as Instagram. This is while the president of Harvard supports a (literally) Nazi inspired, barbaric sex cult known as Hamas, backed by our CAUCASIAN enemies: the Iranian government as the left's youth are changing in the streets for the genocide of Jews. As a person who had a Jewish Grandfather who lived through WW2 Europe, and who's Mother and I (had I been alive at the time) would have been labeled "Mischling" by the Nazi's and burned along with them, I find this offensive and absurd. I wish these authoritarians wold get a real job, and let free speech be.
Ah, Jonathan Katz, one of the Good White Men (tm Freddie DeBoer). Who shall now come to our rescue by deliberately searching for a handful of Substacks with almost no readership and declare we have a problem that only he can solve.
(I don't like the term "white savior" but in Katz's case, it fits.)
I love it when you get snarky, Matt. Made me laugh out loud! My husband looked up. I explained it was just something Matt wrote. Still giggling.
This is why I subscribe to what you write, Matt. You're standing up for the rest of us against these authoritarian asswipes determined to tell the rest of us how to think, or else. Keep it up, friend. We're with you.
Seems to me that this (ahem) staggering intellect and their pro-censorship collaborators may wish to confine their hunt for Nazis to the one they see every morning while brushing their teeth.