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Substack co-founder: "What if we kissed at the Nazi bar?" (substack.com)
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The day just isn't complete without a tiresome retread of freeze peach rhetorical tropes. Oh, it's "important to engage with and understand" white supremacy. That's why we need to boost the voices of white supremacists! And give them money!

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 11 months ago

Katie Notopoulos writes about the economic incentives for substack to keep Nazis:

https://www.businessinsider.com/substack-nazi-problem-free-speech-money-analysis-2023-12?r=US&IR=T

Also links to a post signed by a bunch of prominent substackers who are just fine with the policy as it stands. Contains the usual suspects of Bari Weiss, Edward Snowden, Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger: https://substack.com/home/post/p-139757629

Good to have on hand if you find any of them linked so they can be avoided