kottke.org6d ago
“Stop naming things after people, living or dead. No schools. No streets. No courthouses. No fountains. Just quit it.” https://fritinancy.substack.com/p/stop-naming-buildings-and-streets
Stop naming buildings (and streets, and parks, and ships, and mountains) after people

Eventually, inevitably, someone will decide that your well-meaning gesture was a terrible error.

Fritinancy
Show thread2xfo6d ago
@kottke
Substack platforms Nazis for profit. They defend their right to profit by disseminating Nazi ideas and they push Nazi ideas in their notifications.
(I just think a lot of people must be unaware or they wouldn't look for information there)
Show threadಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him)6d ago

@RnDanger @kottke The challenge, as always, is that there are also a bunch of leftists and left-leaning journalists (e.g. Mehdi Hasan and Zeteo, Drop Site News, Left Hook with Wajahat Ali, etc) who are doing great work. I'm not saying your point isn't valid (it is), but rather that unfortunately it's balancing that awful fact against the need to support great journalists doing important work.

I wish everyone would move to Ghost.

Show threadRedwoodSec
@chiraag @RnDanger @kottke ghost needs a free plan like other platforms
Mar 25 at 6:05amWeb