Disparaging Umair & Jessica

Or should we just move forward?

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My feed has seen an increase in articles belittling Umair Haque and Jessica Wildfire. Here is a recent article on this theme, by

Berna Tural

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Nobody Wants to Read Jessica and Umair Anymore

When I joined Medium in April 2019, Umair and Jessica showed up on my feed. So, I clicked and read. I had to agree with much of what they were saying. But I had doubts whether the message of these two writers will ever be reaching the people that needed to do some rethinking about how the world should work. In other words, these two writers are — in my opinion — in their own echo chamber and really not changing the world very much.

I stopped reading Jessica after about 10 articles. Her stories go too far with “hair-on-fire.” Umair is more reasonable with his sensationalism. And I had some success dogging on to Umair’s articles in promoting my alternative democracy: I got a few Umair readers to read my flagship essay.

What I, Berna, and many other Medium contributors find wrong with Umair’s and Jessica’s approach to their articles is there is no solution to this mess…