Leaving Substack for Medium
Hi folks,
I’ve posted my writing on Substack since 2021. But this past December, Substack announced that it wouldn’t be intervening with any of the white supremacist and/or Nazi content being shared on its platform.
This would feel bad anytime. But during this, a time of war waged by the Israeli state against Palestinians, Substack’s ambivalence towards the Nazis it is hosting feels extra-specially bad. The growing international call for Palestinian freedom has revealed a heinous underbelly: an escalation of anti-semitism, seemingly in two forms. Form number one: well, all Jews MUST be Israeli and represent Israel and thus Judaism should suffer for what Israel is doing. Form number two: hatred of Judaism, point blank.
Form one is sloppy, with threat of violence against Jewish people as a shrug and an “oh, well,” while form two is more of a classic xenophobia, but the upshots of both are the same: an amplifying of ethnic hatred that can be swept under the blurry rug of larger issues. Even excused by those larger issues. Which is, frankly, fucking terrifying. So, in order to not be complicit with Substack and its passive Nazism, I’m going to be running my writing over on Medium going forward (link here). Unless the same problem spreads here, in which case, maybe I’ll just start posting 3k word responses in reddit threads.
I’m going to move all my materials from Substack over to Medium in the coming months, then close up shop here. So, if you’d like to keep reading with me, please hop over and follow me there! (I have linked my newest essay below for you to look at, too.)
Thank you kindly,
AKC