Substack Notes is a hot mess.
I just blocked my first user there. He seemed genuinely deranged. His reply made no sense, with a timeline consisting of jumbled nonsense including a graphic asking “Was Hitler part Jewish?”
Here’s the really problematic part. Because I blocked this loon, I don’t have to see his ravings. But, unfortunately, you do. His comment still appears under my note, even though I don’t want that kind of interaction appearing under anything I have written.
@edbott I have seen that question about AH being the subject of a video on YouTube by the historian Mark Felton. Might not be the same graphic, I felt no urge to watch, and it could be an example of using a dangerous rhetorical question.
This topic needs a Content Warning on Mastodon.
@Wolf_Baginski @edbott I'll keep the cw but why is it a dangerous question? I'm missing something here. (I wonder in what context Ed's "loon" was bringing this up.)
Hans Frank – head of Nazi Poland – told this story during his trials in Nuremberg, right? (He did it possibly as a way to distance himself from Hitler; he was very anti-semitic of course.)
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/study-suggests-adolf-hitler-was-a-quarter-jewish-597966 Hopefully we aren't suggesting jpost is problematically anti-semitic.
Interesting but ultimately not particularly consequential to anything.
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