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 -
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I would never assume that the more left-wing place is more P.C.
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Well, I also tend to see PC as more liberal and leftists (indeed an outgrowth of liberal overvaluation of speech acts & civility) but lots of anti-PC people (including Yglesias himself) tend to see it as a disease of the ultra-left.
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