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Blocked and Reported

Episode 198: Actually, Substack Doesn't Have a Nazi Problem

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie dig into allegations that Substack is sheltering Nazis like so many Jews in an attic. Plus, world’s best/worst Wife Guy Bill Ackman continues to post.

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Jonathan Katz: “Substack Has a Nazi Problem”

https://substack.com/content

Patrick Casey archive

Substackers Against Nazis open letter

Substack Shouldn’t Decide What We Read open letter



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0:00.0

Katie Herzog, it's great to see you.

0:14.0

You can't see me, actually, we never do this on camera for a reason.

0:17.6

I'm picturing you in my mind.

0:19.0

Funny you should bring that up, Jessie, because I learned recently. I had a, because I learned recently, I had, actually this has been sort of traumatic.

0:27.0

I wasn't sure that I was going to talk about it on the show, but since you brought it up, I will.

0:30.0

Jesse, I did not know until very recently that most people when they picture

0:35.7

things or images or people in their minds they have an actual picture in their

0:40.3

mind I did not know that and you lack this this ability. I lack this ability. This is called a

0:44.7

Fantasia? Like some sort of sad robot with a broken microchip. Yeah, I have no inner images. I have no ability to visualize and this has been it's been really

0:53.8

upsetting me I wrote a piece about it even I wrote a 5,000 word piece about my

0:57.7

about my about my lack of an inner life for which platform for no platform because

1:02.1

I haven't I haven't submitted it anywhere yet and I'm not sure that it will get published even if I can.

1:07.0

But by the way, we should just say for any aspiring freelance writers out there, that's how you do it. Just write the whole thing at

1:13.6

5,000 words and then send the whole manuscript. Yes this is how I do it. I don't

1:18.0

like to write. I don't like to pitch. I like to construct the whole

1:20.4

sort because if you write just a pitch pitch your editor is going to be like no

1:23.5

make these changes I like to have the full thing done in advance besides I don't

1:28.0

make a living off of writing so I can do what I want but yes yeah so I had no

1:31.4

idea that people could literally visualize things in their brains and that

1:36.2

I lack this ability to do it.

1:37.5

And so I have spent the last month or so trying to force myself to visualize and I have had

1:42.4

zero luck. I cannot see a

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