Thread by @ggreenwald

Very disappointed to see @cliomiso is angered by LGBT journalists having a platform on which to be heard and write independently. Homophobia still strong.

It was only a matter of time before people started demanding Substack be censored: hate nothing more than free expression.

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1328356736793800707

That @Yascha_Mounk -- who supported the coup in Bolivia -- and I are "like minded" is one of the funniest fucking things I've ever read. But that's what happens to your brain when you try to flatten everyone into stunted groups, ignoring their diversity and differences.

I have to say it's so infuriating when you go through life confronting prejudices, legal barriers barring you from living with your husband in your own country, various traumas and other forms of prejudice to be flattened into "another white guy" but cheap identitarians.

People who judge and understand the worth and lives of others human beings based overwhelmingly on a tiny handful of simplistic demographic categories -- emphasizing some, erasing others, all based on the convenience of the moment -- occupy the lowest anti-intellectual sewers.

The key point about journalism is this:

Journalists on the payroll of mainstream media corporations hate most that which enables people to be heard independently & without needing to depend upon the structure & constraints of NBC, CNN, NYT, etc. That's why they want it censored.

Support independent journalism. Don't let them convince you that things that aren't sanctioned by NBC or WPost are are unreliable: those are often the outlets that lie to you most (and then lavish themselves with awards). They're threatened by independent journalism for a reason.

CNN and NBC and others now employ little hall monitor dweebs whose only purpose is to pressure other platforms to censor or block the voices that are most threatening to them. It's not journalism: it's quashing of dissent. That's their function: it's vital to see that clearly.