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You give an editorial team a chance to leave if you want them to take a different stance and you think not all of them will be onboard. The following is probab
by gadf 6y ago
You give an editorial team a chance to leave if you want them to take a different stance and you think not all of them will be onboard.
The following is probably just glib speculation and (trigger warning) I apologize for the mortal harm, and deep and long offense it will cause to our delicate and venerable brothers and sisters who have awakened their righteous moral zeal for a bit of the old fashioned ultraviolence (I mean mob executions) in the woke movement but could this be related to the confluence of:
- Rise of Substack and "unedited/uncensored" writers having a diversity of opinions, readership and success without having to toe any ideological line dictated by the venerable offices of the ministries of politically correct truth (our beloved overlords)?
- Impending decline or unprofitability of cancel culture and Medium's nascent wish to adopt a wider net for writers of all perspectives to try to capture some of the value Substack is surfacing, while acknowledging their existing editorial team is probably too ideologically inflexible and overly fixated on the woke tropes of hunting witches, mob-executions of resistance sympathizers and exiling heretics to be able to benefit from these trends?
- The impossibility of a leader of the Silicon Valley set couching anything in such counter-revolutionary terms, so it needs to be infused with anodyne positivity in order to pre-emptively counter any woke-police criticisms and fly under the counter-woke-dar of our venerable overlords?
- Missive sent from output 9, with greatest respect to our eternally and most woke overlords, may they bless us