(What follows is unsolicited and I completely understand if you wish to delete it)
In order to make this real, let’s not forget that a few weeks ago this platform, meaning Substack, allied itself with one of its more potent Zionist forums, The Free Press. That’s not what most of us wanted.
What this means is that of every dollar any subscriber pays to any Substack writer, some fraction of that will filter up to Free Press, and, by logical extension, eventually contribute to the murder of innocents.
There are very few issues I find beyond possibility of discussion. Even Zionism is theoretically arguable, but only once the killing stops. In the meantime I urge all writers, commenters, and simply decent human beings to join together to insist that this platform become once again a level one, and not tilted to the side of blatant crimes against humanity. The structure of this is still open, but I think a separate, independent, Substack site where all civilized contributors can express themselves and speak to the management of the platform, makes sense. I will follow up on this. Thank you, and Happy (non- murderous) New Year.
I like the optimism and the spirit of this.
(What follows is unsolicited and I completely understand if you wish to delete it)
In order to make this real, let’s not forget that a few weeks ago this platform, meaning Substack, allied itself with one of its more potent Zionist forums, The Free Press. That’s not what most of us wanted.
What this means is that of every dollar any subscriber pays to any Substack writer, some fraction of that will filter up to Free Press, and, by logical extension, eventually contribute to the murder of innocents.
There are very few issues I find beyond possibility of discussion. Even Zionism is theoretically arguable, but only once the killing stops. In the meantime I urge all writers, commenters, and simply decent human beings to join together to insist that this platform become once again a level one, and not tilted to the side of blatant crimes against humanity. The structure of this is still open, but I think a separate, independent, Substack site where all civilized contributors can express themselves and speak to the management of the platform, makes sense. I will follow up on this. Thank you, and Happy (non- murderous) New Year.
I didn't know about this, I need to read up on it. Seems to have slipped under my radar.
Bari Weiss killed Refaat Alareer.
$8/mo isn’t a “free” press.
I'm here for it lets gooo
Taylor Lorenz called it months ago. She said legacy media are dead.