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Substack's success is a reaction to the pervasive authoritarian BLM religious cult [1] wrecking media companies. Heterodoxy cannot exist in many places where i

Substack's success is a reaction to the pervasive authoritarian BLM religious cult [1] wrecking media companies. Heterodoxy cannot exist in many places where it once did. Substack is currently an outlet for free thinking. Yet, its founders haven't been tested by woke cancel culture. What will they stand for when those moments present themselves? [1] https://www.wsws.org/en/topics/event/1619 https://www.wsws.org/en/topics/event/1619

Pils 6y ago
Guess I never saw it that way, thanks. Could you go more into the religious aspects of the Black Lives Matter movement?
- say_it_as_it_is 6y ago
  https://samharris.org/podcasts/217-new-religion-anti-racism/ https://samharris.org/podcasts/217-new-religion-anti-racism/
  - Pils 6y ago
    From the description, this podcast episode doesn't seem to talk about religion at all. Do you have a better source?
drannex 6y ago
This is such a garbage take, and you know it. Stop trying to bait others with takes that are entirely nonsensical to the article at hand. Linking to flawed critiques of the 1619 project and proclaiming "BLM" both authoritarian (it's not, and decentralized) and calling it a religious cult (not a religion, nor a cult, nor a formalized central power structure) is just totally irrelevant and implicit subversive racism. Your comment stands out for nothing substantive but bigotry.
- say_it_as_it_is 6y ago
  Prove that what I said is bigotry or "implicit subversive racism". I chose a recent, controversial event illustrating an influential media company -- The New York Times -- doubling down on costly mistakes made in the name of social justice. The heterodox thinkers of the Times will move on to the Substacks of the world where their critical reasoning skills and rejection of cult membership make them even more valued. No bigotry or racism here.
- dang 6y ago
  Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. It's repetitive, tedious, nasty, and not what this site is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
dang 6y ago
Please don't take HN threads into ideological flamewar. It's repetitive, tedious, nasty, and not what this site is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Pils 6y ago

Guess I never saw it that way, thanks. Could you go more into the religious aspects of the Black Lives Matter movement?

say_it_as_it_is 6y ago
https://samharris.org/podcasts/217-new-religion-anti-racism/ https://samharris.org/podcasts/217-new-religion-anti-racism/
- Pils 6y ago
  From the description, this podcast episode doesn't seem to talk about religion at all. Do you have a better source?

drannex 6y ago

This is such a garbage take, and you know it. Stop trying to bait others with takes that are entirely nonsensical to the article at hand. Linking to flawed critiques of the 1619 project and proclaiming "BLM" both authoritarian (it's not, and decentralized) and calling it a religious cult (not a religion, nor a cult, nor a formalized central power structure) is just totally irrelevant and implicit subversive racism. Your comment stands out for nothing substantive but bigotry.

say_it_as_it_is 6y ago
Prove that what I said is bigotry or "implicit subversive racism". I chose a recent, controversial event illustrating an influential media company -- The New York Times -- doubling down on costly mistakes made in the name of social justice. The heterodox thinkers of the Times will move on to the Substacks of the world where their critical reasoning skills and rejection of cult membership make them even more valued. No bigotry or racism here.
dang 6y ago
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. It's repetitive, tedious, nasty, and not what this site is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

dang 6y ago

Please don't take HN threads into ideological flamewar. It's repetitive, tedious, nasty, and not what this site is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html