Why not just block them and write about things more interesting? I don't get the point. These are fools writing about something, there's no real world consequences.
Sir, I have two Nazi Problems to solve (1) Substack (2) LAPD. I intend to solve them both using power of journalism.
I didn’t totally disagree with Substack management even if I’m fighting Nazis. I just heard another racist LAPD story so clearly this is working already. Patience!
Thanks for asking Charlotte! I did look briefly into Katz’s claims. The described account from Richard Spencer is shared and dormant. I’m not sure if he’d provide links, but I’m going to ask soon. Agree with those too who say it’s a little bit of a Red Herring perhaps, so let’s find out!
Either way, I fight Nazis! Also do subterfuge! 🔥🎞️📰😎🖤
And I was told well he might use it. My assessment is that the threat posed by people planning another January 6 is greater than those posed by Substack Nazis. It’s slightly different say than if I detected an active serial sexual predator at USC and was ethically obligated to report it within the University’s Threat Assessment architecture. Had that question the other day in response to my reporting on that subject.
One thing I can’t have is those who seek me out being deterred in some way from contacting me, especially about the latter issues. And that investigation is extremely active and proceeding with new collaborators! Stay tuned for updates! :) 🖤
I'm less familiar with the Richard Hanania figure. Substacks management should feel free to associate with the likes of me! My assessment was that Katz isn't making up his reporting, but that it's slightly overstated in terms of being a direct threat. The far bigger threat to Trumpism and a repeat of the January 6, 2021 threat to overthrow our democracy. That's the discussion I'd like to see happen.
One risk of writing Political Satire on the Internet is that people will take it way too seriously. I had one commentator after sharing her story of just how racist the LAPD is in fact sometimes fear for my safety and wellbeing for simply have written this article. I didn't come here to play softball!
I get that people are afraid this will hurt business on Substack, which is why my prior article on this topic made the case that even Rick Caruso has decided that Trump is bad for public business using the trope of radio stations not playing Street Fighting Man by the Rolling Stones for fear of inciting violence. I'm mostly convinced that there are two camps here that can't see another as human beings in anyway, but I'll "never surrender to tech bros" as my mentor Gustavo Arellano says and I came here to fight Nazis in real life and not just online.
Including those in the LAPD and at USC who have apparently orchestrated a cover-up of sexual abuse at USC and interfered in our most recent elections with a race-baiting audio leak. Just weeks ago my reporting stopped USC from failing to even offer a victim of sexual assault. If I have to denounce Nazis on Substack to read that piece, and to make those women feel safer in even accessing this platform. Easy choice!
For some time now, deeply resented the Atlantic. Then I will be googling something to find something out and stumble across the most fantastic and fascinating articles in The Atlantic. For a while, I said to myself ‘clearly this RAG is only putting out these good articles to soften us up for that BS propaganda and lies.’ But I think this was something oversimplistic. Maybe we could just think about the Atlantic as kind of like substack, with editors? I don’t know. I do resent publications that publish BS lies and amplify lying right wing narratives intensely. They tag team with other outlets without the slightest concern for 1) the truth of their arguments 2) the effect of their arguments and 3) they conceal the political source of their arguments in the public relations machine of the right wing. They intentionally choose narratives about specific targeted minority groups and they also clutter up the information space with pointless hysteria about made-up shit.
Sorry just needed to get that rant in there. That said, here’s ANOTHER major problem I see, which is they conceal, either intentionally for from pure laziness, the rise of the far right and the stuff they do. For example, I saw many times on Twitter during the BLM protests actually filmed footage of white supremacist groups committing crimes right in the open in the hopes of destroying support for the protests. Then, I went and looked at the newspapers of the cities where these things happened. And yes, they arrested white supremacists in these cities like Charlottesville and Minneapolis and Richmond and so forth. And to their credit, the police said that white supremacists had done these things and were a threat to the cities. In fact, I know an ex-cop who said they are actually the only group he was afraid would kill him when he was an officer. (He was white, and also ex--military so maybe looks like a white supremacist but is deeply opposed to racism, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, etc. He was constantly talking about what a threat these people are to America and public safety way before 1/6.) You would think there would be many news stories! But there ALMOST NEVER ARE. Not good ones. In addition, when the anti-shutdown and anti-mask protests happened where I live the citizen journalists spotted all the usual harmful people...the ones who come out in scary ways to disrupt pride parades. And they commented on this. But did we read about this in the newspaper, that these protesters were scary Nazi types? No, of course not.
This imbalance pisses me off a lot. But it’s also exhausting. I’m just some boring old middle aged person. I am not a radical. I don’t want to read the newspapers I have relied on over the course of my life and become some crank calling bullshit on everything, becoming bitter and distrustful. But what do you do when there is so much BULLSHIT?
What is you definition of a Nazi? And what is a “skin head”; and is your problem with the way someone in a group looks; or somehow looks like they are planning a genocide?
If so, on the intentional desire and planning to create a system born to actualize a genocide; how so?
That’s part of the ambiguity. I’m telling real life stories in the context of police corruption. If I wanted to offer that level of interpretation on the topic, I would have gone for simple definitions instead of talking about LAPD :) Some people take everything literally. That said, no Nazis.
I’m on my second listening to this article.; It’s a great style; I love it. This won’t be my last listening! I’m looking for these 16 citations to build up an understanding of such ambiguities; in this case related to your lexicons... ♾️✊♾️
Why not just block them and write about things more interesting? I don't get the point. These are fools writing about something, there's no real world consequences.
Sir, I have two Nazi Problems to solve (1) Substack (2) LAPD. I intend to solve them both using power of journalism.
I didn’t totally disagree with Substack management even if I’m fighting Nazis. I just heard another racist LAPD story so clearly this is working already. Patience!
Signed,
Zach
Zachary Ellison
Independent Journalist
Chief Nazi Hunter of Substack
Carry on :)
Name the Nazis? Are they identifiable? Thanks.
Thanks for asking Charlotte! I did look briefly into Katz’s claims. The described account from Richard Spencer is shared and dormant. I’m not sure if he’d provide links, but I’m going to ask soon. Agree with those too who say it’s a little bit of a Red Herring perhaps, so let’s find out!
Either way, I fight Nazis! Also do subterfuge! 🔥🎞️📰😎🖤
And I move my investigations slowly :)
And I was told well he might use it. My assessment is that the threat posed by people planning another January 6 is greater than those posed by Substack Nazis. It’s slightly different say than if I detected an active serial sexual predator at USC and was ethically obligated to report it within the University’s Threat Assessment architecture. Had that question the other day in response to my reporting on that subject.
One thing I can’t have is those who seek me out being deterred in some way from contacting me, especially about the latter issues. And that investigation is extremely active and proceeding with new collaborators! Stay tuned for updates! :) 🖤
Ok, so can you name any Nazis? Here on Substack?
Richard B. Spencer is an extremely well known hate figure: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/richard-bertrand-spencer-0
I'm less familiar with the Richard Hanania figure. Substacks management should feel free to associate with the likes of me! My assessment was that Katz isn't making up his reporting, but that it's slightly overstated in terms of being a direct threat. The far bigger threat to Trumpism and a repeat of the January 6, 2021 threat to overthrow our democracy. That's the discussion I'd like to see happen.
One risk of writing Political Satire on the Internet is that people will take it way too seriously. I had one commentator after sharing her story of just how racist the LAPD is in fact sometimes fear for my safety and wellbeing for simply have written this article. I didn't come here to play softball!
I get that people are afraid this will hurt business on Substack, which is why my prior article on this topic made the case that even Rick Caruso has decided that Trump is bad for public business using the trope of radio stations not playing Street Fighting Man by the Rolling Stones for fear of inciting violence. I'm mostly convinced that there are two camps here that can't see another as human beings in anyway, but I'll "never surrender to tech bros" as my mentor Gustavo Arellano says and I came here to fight Nazis in real life and not just online.
Including those in the LAPD and at USC who have apparently orchestrated a cover-up of sexual abuse at USC and interfered in our most recent elections with a race-baiting audio leak. Just weeks ago my reporting stopped USC from failing to even offer a victim of sexual assault. If I have to denounce Nazis on Substack to read that piece, and to make those women feel safer in even accessing this platform. Easy choice!
And Orange County is chock full of Nazis! No joke! :)
Never heard of him! Lol! I guess I don’t travel in Nazi circles 😏
Sounds like a worthwhile project.
For some time now, deeply resented the Atlantic. Then I will be googling something to find something out and stumble across the most fantastic and fascinating articles in The Atlantic. For a while, I said to myself ‘clearly this RAG is only putting out these good articles to soften us up for that BS propaganda and lies.’ But I think this was something oversimplistic. Maybe we could just think about the Atlantic as kind of like substack, with editors? I don’t know. I do resent publications that publish BS lies and amplify lying right wing narratives intensely. They tag team with other outlets without the slightest concern for 1) the truth of their arguments 2) the effect of their arguments and 3) they conceal the political source of their arguments in the public relations machine of the right wing. They intentionally choose narratives about specific targeted minority groups and they also clutter up the information space with pointless hysteria about made-up shit.
Sorry just needed to get that rant in there. That said, here’s ANOTHER major problem I see, which is they conceal, either intentionally for from pure laziness, the rise of the far right and the stuff they do. For example, I saw many times on Twitter during the BLM protests actually filmed footage of white supremacist groups committing crimes right in the open in the hopes of destroying support for the protests. Then, I went and looked at the newspapers of the cities where these things happened. And yes, they arrested white supremacists in these cities like Charlottesville and Minneapolis and Richmond and so forth. And to their credit, the police said that white supremacists had done these things and were a threat to the cities. In fact, I know an ex-cop who said they are actually the only group he was afraid would kill him when he was an officer. (He was white, and also ex--military so maybe looks like a white supremacist but is deeply opposed to racism, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, etc. He was constantly talking about what a threat these people are to America and public safety way before 1/6.) You would think there would be many news stories! But there ALMOST NEVER ARE. Not good ones. In addition, when the anti-shutdown and anti-mask protests happened where I live the citizen journalists spotted all the usual harmful people...the ones who come out in scary ways to disrupt pride parades. And they commented on this. But did we read about this in the newspaper, that these protesters were scary Nazi types? No, of course not.
This imbalance pisses me off a lot. But it’s also exhausting. I’m just some boring old middle aged person. I am not a radical. I don’t want to read the newspapers I have relied on over the course of my life and become some crank calling bullshit on everything, becoming bitter and distrustful. But what do you do when there is so much BULLSHIT?
I am unsure.
What is you definition of a Nazi? And what is a “skin head”; and is your problem with the way someone in a group looks; or somehow looks like they are planning a genocide?
If so, on the intentional desire and planning to create a system born to actualize a genocide; how so?
That’s part of the ambiguity. I’m telling real life stories in the context of police corruption. If I wanted to offer that level of interpretation on the topic, I would have gone for simple definitions instead of talking about LAPD :) Some people take everything literally. That said, no Nazis.
I’m on my second listening to this article.; It’s a great style; I love it. This won’t be my last listening! I’m looking for these 16 citations to build up an understanding of such ambiguities; in this case related to your lexicons... ♾️✊♾️