Good evening, friends!
As many of you know there have been renewed calls for censorship on Substack. Here at The Partisan, we take a maximal stance on free speech and condemn these craven calls to abuse our natural right of free expression and thought.
The facts are these.
1) Pro-censors seek out content that upsets them, often content with extremely low engagement.
2) Most of us would never see this content if it were not for the pro-censor’s protests.
3) Pro-censors do not understand the basics of the free speech position, as evidenced by their completely not understanding Substack’s plainly written policy.
4) Pro-censors brook no criticism. Anything above a vain whimper of protest gets you ignored, mocked, and always blocked.
5) Pro-censors disrespect every person on this platform when they demand Substack save us from objectionable, offensive, and hateful content.
We do not need them or Substack to save us from the “bad guys.” As grown, mature adult human beings we are perfectly capable of doing it ourselves.
If Substack respects this, their platform will continue to prosper. As we all wish to see this, I encourage you all to challenge and critique any pro-censor argument you see anywhere and everywhere on this platform.
We fight bad speech with more speech, right up to the gates of Hell and beyond.
Who’s with me?
Meanwhile the clowns running the US government are sending lots of financial aid to Nazi's in the Ukraine that brag about who they are. And then there is the aid sent to the Israeli state that promotes Jewish supremacy. And then we have black history month which maybe should be black history hour. And then we have all the other nonsense going on where someone of color and race gets put into the supreme court BECAUSE of their color and race. And then of course we have to have the LGBTQRSTLUVWXYZ groups that get preferential treatment and lots of air time because after all...Meanwhile, if you're a white guy and you think this nonsense is nonsense, you're somehow a "white supremist." Well OK...BUT????
I've never seen Nazis on this platform. I'm not saying they aren't here, but they are not in my purview. I just don't run in those circles. I'd rather argue against their points than deplatform them. Taking it out into the light of day is far more effective than banishment. I'm glad people are standing up against censorship and would rather have actual policy discussions rather than puerile virtue-signaling. I did see one of the responses to the official Substack response in my inbox. It was the aforementioned puerile, virtue-signaling nonsense. Another thing to consider is that half the people in those WS groups are either informants or straight-up Feds. Not that it's comforting. If we just stand up to the WS nonsense, we can make their paycheck obsolete as well. Hmm, there's a thought.