Comment by tptacek

I don't read the parent comment as calling for Bari Weiss's substack to be banned from the site, but rather just providing some context about what the site is. I'd have maybe pointed out more about the contrarian impulse of the site, and how that interacts with this topic (being contrarian about public health policy surrounding COVID is a click magnet), but either way it seems like a colorably valuable comment.

If the comment opened with something like "I stopped reading at commonsense.news because Bari Weiss is bad", that'd be a different matter, but they have a substantive critique of the actual article.

Given the weak sourcing, it feels like this article, in particular, flunks the "divisive subjects require more thought and substance" test.

I loathe Bari Weiss, so, grain of salt on all this.