1. So. Substack.
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2. I wish I had a cool origin story, like "I did my famous Chico Marx imitation at the Nation Christmas party & was reprimanded for anti-Italian bigotry! Cancel Culture is out of control! I'm moving to Substack for free speech" etc. etc. Not true, alas.
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3. To the degree that substack has a reputation (unfair, I think) as a haven for cancel culture obsessives, I'm a bad fit. My position is that censoriousness is bad & should be challenged but a most of the cancel culture discourse is hyperbole & wounded amour propre.
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4. I mean
@mattyglesias has talked about the blowback he got from Vox colleagues for signing the Harper's Letter. But I signed the letter &worked for a place substantially to the left of Vox (the Nation) & got no blow back. So I tend to think this is a localized issue.20 replies 4 retweets 88 likesShow this thread -
5. The reasons to do substack is you are a m̶a̶l̶c̶o̶n̶t̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶&d ̶c̶r̶a̶c̶k̶p̶o̶t̶ free independent spirit who h̶a̶t̶e̶s̶ ̶l̶i̶s̶t̶e̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ ̶p̶e̶o̶p̶l̶e̶ ̶a̶b̶o̶u̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶o̶g̶e̶n̶c̶y̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶f̶a̶c̶t̶s̶ ̶& ̶a̶r̶g̶u̶m̶e̶n̶t̶s̶ resists editing
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6. As I've said before, resistance to editing is more a personality type than an ideology. But that ain't me either. I love my editors and colleagues! I've always benefitted from editors (I'll acknowledge that is not everyone's experience).
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7. More to the point, I'm at heart a socialist rather than an individualist, so I like belonging to group enterprises like magazines. I was enormously happy at both the New Republic & The Nation to be part of shared enterprise, with others of roughly similar outlook.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Man, You are truly and deeply Canadian. Like Scott Pilgrim level Canadian.
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