It is simply not true that radical leftists took over all major institutions and use them to crush the right, and mainstream figures should stop being afraid to say so
I see where you’re getting confused. It’s not a metaphor. It’s meant to be taken absolutely literally.
If you run a bar and you allow a person who openly and unabashedly espouses nazi rhetoric to feel welcome at your bar, he will let all his shitheel nazi friends know that your bar is a safe place for them to openly and unabashedly espouse their nazi rhetoric unchallenged. You are now running a nazi bar.
The metaphor is the comparison of a blogging platform to a bar. Substack is not a bar, it’s a website, hence your description of it as a “Nazi bar” is a metaphor. You’re analogizing how to behave if you own a bar to how to behave if you own a website. The problem with that being a) website and bars are very different and b) you’re not even really describing bars realistically.
I see where you’re getting confused. It’s not a metaphor. It’s meant to be taken absolutely literally.
If you run a bar and you allow a person who openly and unabashedly espouses nazi rhetoric to feel welcome at your bar, he will let all his shitheel nazi friends know that your bar is a safe place for them to openly and unabashedly espouse their nazi rhetoric unchallenged. You are now running a nazi bar.
The metaphor is the comparison of a blogging platform to a bar. Substack is not a bar, it’s a website, hence your description of it as a “Nazi bar” is a metaphor. You’re analogizing how to behave if you own a bar to how to behave if you own a website. The problem with that being a) website and bars are very different and b) you’re not even really describing bars realistically.