> I suspect that many of the loudest deplatformers simply are so low-level in their soul-development that all they can do is latch onto whatever they perceive as the current authority and defend it violently.
Recently was told on Twitter I should be removed from all Social Media because I stated the standard Polio vaccine narrative is faulty. Didn't even go full anti-vax but I could sense the writer's visceral pain through the monitor. Their identity revolves around a certain mythology, and is just as irrational and anti-intellectual as the religious bigots they constantly degrade.
I wasn’t aware of this, of course now they’re after Substack for not being a high censorship medium or platform like youtube google facebook etc. It’s unfortunate the intolerance shown by these people to anyone who doesn’t share their views and how they consistently lower themselves in the eyes of others with always resorting to hurling insults and put downs and name calling. We all know sunshine is the best disinfectant of all. Keep up your great writing Luc. I will be becoming a paid subscriber soon.
On Substack anyone can comment on pieces they disagree with and engage in discussion with the author. Unless they are paywalling comments, of course. But even then it's all out in the open. And if your day job is defending humanity from Nazis that would be a great way to start. Really serious Nazis will be on their own murky networks, making said day job much more difficult. But what the censors are worried about seems to be these "Nazis" influencing you and me, sucking us into their nefarious plans. They want to protect stupid us from this so we don't inadvertently contribute to The End of the World. Which is incredibly patronising, controlling and a teensy bit, er, Nazi (depending on the definition of this word)? Plus the obvious factor of any Nazis on Substack now whooping for joy at the free publicity. Will people never learn from the Trump effect?
Yes! Censorship versus freedom of expression is an important dialect to get one's head around to understand the spirit of the age. Your essay goes one deeper too: ease vs. resiliency. Nice.
I wonder, though, if these are simply two different salvific strategies to achieve the same end, human mastery. To the censorious, salvation comes through eliminating suffering, while the bold achieve it through knowing.
IMHO this theory of why the censorious left want to censor may be true of some of them. There is also a simpler explanation:
Most leftists do not really believe their own claims ("men can be women" "socialism brings prosperity" "Substack has a Nazi problem" etc.). If your 'beliefs' are lies, then the truth and the people who tell it are your worst enemies. So you lie about them.
" discomfort and wishing death upon those with different opinions"
Unfortunately, more and more people that do not accept your " invitation " to learn or accept uncomfortable ideas are biologically unable to. The brainwashing from birth plus pharmaceutical poisoning of the myelin sheath is bringing on dementia in people of all ages. Plus alcohol, illegal drugs... And not to mention the absence of empathy in people with various form of autism- Asperger's, ADHD etc.
These people have varying degrees of mind blindness..have a literal understanding ( and misuse the word " literally a LOT, like, like are literally a Nazi ".😆...not literally, but wanting people dead for being different is a Nazi trait....
Abstract concepts are difficult, so I imagine that contradiction is hard too, and paradox impossible.
It is quite fortunate that they don't understand sarcasm, or I might have been killed by now😂
Yeah. I bet those juicy dumbshits don't know true history. Also, they search for Not See every-time they come to Sub-stack. Heck I bet they search for Not See on every fucking platform they go to. The just don't want to see Not See. NAZI NAZI NAZI
The people who oppose Nazis on Substack have read rather a lot of history pertaining to Naziism. And that’s the precise reason for their opposition. They know the facts about the Nazi atrocities.
And they do indeed have precise criteria for who is or isn’t a Nazi. That if someone fills their account with swastikas, and writes essays claiming that the existence of the so-called “white-race” is threatened by a high cabal of Jews and globalists plotting to flood white countries with non-white immigrant and refugees; then said someone is a Nazi. Your whole essay is shots gone wide.
> I suspect that many of the loudest deplatformers simply are so low-level in their soul-development that all they can do is latch onto whatever they perceive as the current authority and defend it violently.
Recently was told on Twitter I should be removed from all Social Media because I stated the standard Polio vaccine narrative is faulty. Didn't even go full anti-vax but I could sense the writer's visceral pain through the monitor. Their identity revolves around a certain mythology, and is just as irrational and anti-intellectual as the religious bigots they constantly degrade.
Locus of Control
The censorious are more external oriented, whereas the author and many of us here are more internal oriented.
Also, mental health.
I wasn’t aware of this, of course now they’re after Substack for not being a high censorship medium or platform like youtube google facebook etc. It’s unfortunate the intolerance shown by these people to anyone who doesn’t share their views and how they consistently lower themselves in the eyes of others with always resorting to hurling insults and put downs and name calling. We all know sunshine is the best disinfectant of all. Keep up your great writing Luc. I will be becoming a paid subscriber soon.
On Substack anyone can comment on pieces they disagree with and engage in discussion with the author. Unless they are paywalling comments, of course. But even then it's all out in the open. And if your day job is defending humanity from Nazis that would be a great way to start. Really serious Nazis will be on their own murky networks, making said day job much more difficult. But what the censors are worried about seems to be these "Nazis" influencing you and me, sucking us into their nefarious plans. They want to protect stupid us from this so we don't inadvertently contribute to The End of the World. Which is incredibly patronising, controlling and a teensy bit, er, Nazi (depending on the definition of this word)? Plus the obvious factor of any Nazis on Substack now whooping for joy at the free publicity. Will people never learn from the Trump effect?
Paraphrasing Sun Tzu, if you truly know your enemy, and you truly know your self, you will not lose.
Paraphrasing Progressives: if you are white you are a racistbigotmisogynistxenohobetranshaternatzee.
Yes! Censorship versus freedom of expression is an important dialect to get one's head around to understand the spirit of the age. Your essay goes one deeper too: ease vs. resiliency. Nice.
I wonder, though, if these are simply two different salvific strategies to achieve the same end, human mastery. To the censorious, salvation comes through eliminating suffering, while the bold achieve it through knowing.
What is revered by both parties?
IMHO this theory of why the censorious left want to censor may be true of some of them. There is also a simpler explanation:
Most leftists do not really believe their own claims ("men can be women" "socialism brings prosperity" "Substack has a Nazi problem" etc.). If your 'beliefs' are lies, then the truth and the people who tell it are your worst enemies. So you lie about them.
https://michael796.substack.com/p/claims-leftists-make-government-control?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
" discomfort and wishing death upon those with different opinions"
Unfortunately, more and more people that do not accept your " invitation " to learn or accept uncomfortable ideas are biologically unable to. The brainwashing from birth plus pharmaceutical poisoning of the myelin sheath is bringing on dementia in people of all ages. Plus alcohol, illegal drugs... And not to mention the absence of empathy in people with various form of autism- Asperger's, ADHD etc.
These people have varying degrees of mind blindness..have a literal understanding ( and misuse the word " literally a LOT, like, like are literally a Nazi ".😆...not literally, but wanting people dead for being different is a Nazi trait....
Abstract concepts are difficult, so I imagine that contradiction is hard too, and paradox impossible.
It is quite fortunate that they don't understand sarcasm, or I might have been killed by now😂
Pretty easy calculus for me if the people I hate with all my guts hate nazis there must be something right about them.
those who are willing to have the most patience and energy will always be the ones to inherit victory
Yeah. I bet those juicy dumbshits don't know true history. Also, they search for Not See every-time they come to Sub-stack. Heck I bet they search for Not See on every fucking platform they go to. The just don't want to see Not See. NAZI NAZI NAZI
You have it badly wrong. Hopelessly wrong.
The people who oppose Nazis on Substack have read rather a lot of history pertaining to Naziism. And that’s the precise reason for their opposition. They know the facts about the Nazi atrocities.
And they do indeed have precise criteria for who is or isn’t a Nazi. That if someone fills their account with swastikas, and writes essays claiming that the existence of the so-called “white-race” is threatened by a high cabal of Jews and globalists plotting to flood white countries with non-white immigrant and refugees; then said someone is a Nazi. Your whole essay is shots gone wide.