Free James Massey

Grrrrrobert
Jul 28, 2017 · 1 min read

@jamesmassey has been suspended. Most likely for his recent habit of pointing out the racist tone taken by Some writers without consequence here on medium.

Like the writers he was lampooning his method was provocative. When someone wrote an article which said Group X are evil etc. He switched the races to demonstrate that the tone of the piece was bigoted or racist.

I could appreciate his point.

He has apparently been suspended for that. I didn’t always agree with everything he wrote but I’m not afraid of ideas or words and I don’t believe in censorship be it public or private.

Especially in a marketplace for ideas like medium.

Structural or systemic racism and bigotry are two different beasts, but simply disappearing dissidents doesn’t solve the problem. It only drives it underground.

If what he was doing was so wrong, let’s talk about it. Rather than just making him disappear.

Free James Massey.

Svetlana Voreskova , Kady M. , Austin Frank Medium Staff

UPDATE: Looks like James Massey is back. Glad to see it. Don’t know the details. Don’t care.

Grrrrrobert

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