Looks like I\u2019ll be putting away my Daring Fireball and Accidental Tech Podcast
\nshirts for a while. It\u2019s a pity, they were comfy shirts and I thought I was
\nsupporting good people with them.<\/p>\n
See, Marco Arment<\/a> and John \n And I can\u2019t help but feel that maybe we were better off before we knew The town coffee shop was just a coffee shop. We weren\u2019t publicly shamed for \u201cPizza is an open-faced sandwich\u201d is a hot take<\/em>. \u201cChicago-style pizza is a \n If I learn today that my neighbors have political views that my \u201cside\u201d Should I be condemned for supporting or associating with them in non-political Should I be condemned for not publicly condemning them myself?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Yes, if those \u201cpolitical views\u201d are Nazi shit<\/em> that\u2019s exactly<\/em> what should These are not views about which reasonable people can disagree, like tax policy. If Marco or John were not white, straight, cisgender men, they might have They should ask their respective wives whether they ever had to be concerned, As for me, I\u2019m glad<\/em> people are finally openly stating that they\u2019re Neo-Nazis There\u2019s a German saying:<\/p>\n \n If there\u2019s a Nazi at the table and ten other people sitting there talking to Don\u2019t be one of those ten, no matter how nice you may find that one particular Looks like I\u2019ll be putting away my Daring Fireball and Accidental Tech Podcast shirts for a while. It\u2019s a pity, they were comfy shirts and I thought I was supporting good people with them. See, Marco Arment and John Gruber have, for some reason, decided that now\u2019s the time to let their privilege flag fly,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[151],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-politics","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p74loH-80","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eschatologist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eschatologist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eschatologist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eschatologist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eschatologist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eschatologist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/eschatologist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eschatologist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eschatologist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eschatologist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nGruber<\/a> have, for some
\nreason, decided that now\u2019s the time to let their privilege flag fly, and it\u2019s
\nnot a good look:<\/p>\n
\n everyone\u2019s hot takes on everything.<\/p>\n
\n going there because one of the owners was an ass. It was just a place to hang
\n out with our friends.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\ncasserole\u201d is a hot take<\/em>. \u201cBrown people are poisoning the blood and soil of
\nEurope and must be removed\u201d is Nazi shit<\/em> and that\u2019s<\/em> the sort of thing that
\nDHH, the creator Rails and that slop Linux distribution, has been saying.<\/p>\n
\n considers unacceptable and unforgivable, should I be able to have dinner at
\n their house, shovel their snow, or even greet them outside?<\/p>\n
\n contexts?<\/p>\n
\nhappen.<\/p>\n
\nWe\u2019re talking about views that deny the fundamental humanity of some people and
\nwhose existence is a call for violence.<\/p>\n
\nrealized they had to put a lot more work into deciding whether Bob and Van were
\nsafe neighbors. If they were black, brown, Asian, Jewish, indigenous, gay,
\ntrans, or women, they would have known that everyone you interact with at
\nanything more than the most superficial level needs to be vetted for subtle
\nsigns that they don\u2019t actually see you as a fellow human being–or that even if
\nthey see you<\/em> that way, they may see your friends or family differently.<\/p>\n
\nwhen they lived on their own, whether any of their neighbors might be a
\nmisogynist or worse, or whether they were able to just give straightforward
\ntrust to them, and why. It might shed some light on an unfortunate aspect of the
\nhuman experience that they missed out on.<\/p>\n
\nand fellow travelers, and that other people are stating that they\u2019re comfortable
\nbreaking bread with and supporting Neo-Nazis. It\u2019s important to know because the
\nfirst step to rooting them out–and make no mistake, they must<\/em> be rooted
\nout–is seeing them clearly.<\/p>\n
\n him, you got a table with eleven Nazis._\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nNazi personally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"