Screen name rc4797 has blocked me
and I don't even know why
what else is there to say?
I’m viewing the move as punishment for my dereliction of duty in posting new material.
rc4797 is the most recent contributor to block me on Substack. The fourth. #4.
rc4797 (blocked me 03/24/2024) for my two replies to their comment, where we were participants in the discussion of this Substack post:
It only took two posts for them to firewall me. That’s actually less than the other three Substackers who have blocked me so far:
Clarence Wilhelm Spangle, for writing this post:
To The Neo-Nazi Spamming Caitlin Johnstone's Comment Pages
I’ve been reading Caitlin Johnstone’s op-eds and reporting for well over a decade. We do not always agree. However, I’m sufficiently familiar with her work to be assured that she isn’t a Jew-hater (“antisemite” is such a vapid euphemism.) She’s an anti-Zionist- as are, these days, a great many Jews themselves, according to some measures of public opinio…
I’ve since dropped Caitlin Johnstone from my reading list- for no other reason than the shrillness of her rhetoric, especially in her headlines. I still read her sometimes. It’s hard to get past some of her simplistic ideological and geopolitical views, but it’s worth it, because Caitlin is a good researcher, a good reporter, and a good writer. If only she’d cool it on devices like “negative superlatives”. If she knew more history, I suspect it would sober her up some. Not that she doesn’t know more than most people, but that bar is too low. And it’s self-marginalizing to indulge in overcooked rhetoric. STAY ON THE STORY. When Caitlin follows that track, she’s formidable. Not infallible, but formidable.
Charles Fain Lehman, the “Causal Fallacy” Substack:
And there’s one more—the second blocker, holder of some of those bien pensant liberal-bot opinions—you know, the sort of opinions easily offended by street level reality. Maybe I’ll turn up my entry from my Notes…