John Gruber has had some good hits lately, but this one was a miss. This bit, in particular, rubs me the wrong way:

What I can say, personally, is that I read and pay for several publications on Substack, and for the last few weeks I’ve tried using their iOS app (more on this in a moment), and I’ve never once seen a whiff of anything even vaguely right-wing, let alone hateful. Not a whiff. If it’s there, I never see it. If I never see it, I don’t care.1

Just because you don’t see it, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t care. Erland made a good analogy.

@jarrod ​

Just because you don’t see it, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t care​.

+100. "The cops have never pulled me over, so if it doesn't happen to me, I don't care." or "No one has stopped me from using a bathroom. If they haven't stopped me, I don't care."

The more honest answer would be - "I know it's wrong and I shouldn't but I like it too much to give it up."​

@jarrod And then @Havn followed it up with an even better blog post. 👏 Well said.

@pratik You got it.

@jarrod While he is a very good writer and has a long history, Gruber has some very, very problematic takes on Palestine, worker's rights and corporate responsibility. I unsubscribed from his newsletter a while back, and I mute references to him in other places.

@amerpie Fair enough!