The War on Substack
What Cannot Be Controlled Must be Destroyed
You are right now reading this on Substack.
That means – according to countless screeds that have appeared in more traditional (read: very threatened) media outlets – you are a racist, misogynist, transphobe, COVID denier, election denier, science denier, establishment denier, and expert denier.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate – click here to learn the depth and breadth of just this one part of the censorship-industrial complex - https://counterhate.com/ - has criticized Substack for allowing content which “could be dangerous to public health” because, well, COVID, and the site has content "so bad no one else will host it."
By the way, the CCDH is connected - of course – to the Atlantic Council, the UK government, and the Center for American Progress (one of the most powerful non-partisan, oops, sorry, aggressively woke partisan groups on the planet.)
The CCDH says that asking any question about George Soros in any way is by definition antisemitic – for example, they noticed that googling “evil George Soros” brought up a critical Daily Wire story and that is wrong - https://counterhate.com/blog/google-ads-daily-wire-racist-disinformation-conspiracies/ - because the site is conservative.
Substack, says its critics, recruits bad people to write crazy evil stuff about everything - including such taboo topics like maybe it’s good to be wary of what the government may be saying at the time - in order to make money.
Writers like Matt Taibbi and the rest of the Twitter Files reporters have been expanding upon the censorship issue, in large part through the Substack pages – cue the wrath of the Censorship-Industrial complex.
Feel free to google “evil Substack” for yourself to see the panicked pearl-clutching – actually going back to when it started - of the collaborationist old-line media.
Sunday, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) published another evil Substack report, entitled “Antisemitism, False Information and Hate Speech Find a Home on Substack.”
The formerly respected ADL has become - since the installation of (former Silicon valley and Obama administration guy) CEO Jonathan Greenblatt in 2014 – far more interested in “social justice” progressive issues rather than on its historical focus on its antisemitism mission (very similar to the turn the ACLU has taken.)
According to the ADL, Substack sins include:
· Pushing “claims about unlawful censorship and big tech collusion with the government” (Um, Twitter Files?)
· Disrespecting “established journalists and experts in the extremism research field”
· Criticizing “’authoritarian goons’ such as Anthony Fauci, who (the writer) believes lied about the severity of COVID to control American citizens.”
· Allowing and “promoting anti-government sentiments”
· That “content also promotes conspiratorial tropes about evil, powerful forces in the government”
· Hosting a writer who finds liberalism “problematic”
While the report does accurately note some pages include frankly racist content for the most part it warns the world against the horrors of sites like “Libs of TikTok.”
You can find the entire “report” here - https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/antisemitism-false-information-and-hate-speech-find-home-substack-0
The report concludes, in a state of totalitarian incredulity, by reporting that Substack will "resist any calls that may come for [an account’s] deplatforming” if the account in question has not broken any rules.
Once venerated, now venereal, the ADL has become a dangerous parody of itself, the kind of organization that just a few years ago it would have fought.
Let’s hope they can find their way again.
Enantiodromia (basically, pychological projection) is a sad thing. Center for Countering Digital Hate is, of course, just like the SPLC, the biggest H8TERs around.
I had a neighborwoman who had one of those "Hate has no here" yard signs. She was the biggest H8TER I have ever seen. She had a horrible car accident, so we would go over and cook for her and her husband, now their lawn in 100F temps, check on her after she recovered but was still at home, etc etc etc.
The result? She still hated us because we were Christian and conservative (husband was ok)
Quod erat demonstrandum
Priceless commentary, Thomas, thank you. This Jew is appalled at the bizarre leftward lurch of the ADL and this nonsense is just more of the same absurdity.
In every generation they rise up against us and in every generation, the Holy One thwarts their genocidal intentions. Jews everywhere are celebrating this during Pesach this week. Our seders are the living reminder that the transition from a state of slavery to one of freedom is the work of every individual in every generation.
We have a long history of self-hating Jews from Josephus to Spinoza to Marx to Boomer fools like Chomsky who all have so loathed the rich heritage whence they sprung that they have courted disaster for the Jewish people.
Sadly this idiot Greenblatt is just one more - albeit a highly inferior, weak version - link in the chain of deluded fools hoping to "save" the Jewish people by abandoning the principles of Torah which are focused on individual responsibility and adherence to the same, enduring universal moral guidance provided in the Torah and given clarity in the Talmud and the writings of our Sages.
He is, in short, an idiot who in clinging to woke nonsense and eschewing free speech, is doing absolutely nothing to help anyone on earth, never mind the Jews.