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There’s a Man Who Hates My Work So Much He Promotes It
Thank you so much for your help, I guess?
I recently noticed Medium added a new notification: letting you know when people add your stories to their lists. Yesterday, I deactivated this notification, because I really don’t want to know what lists I’m on.
It’s been happening for a while but I didn’t really pay attention to this feature until now. And I only did because I realized there was a man who’s clearly been trying to send me some kind of a message through his lists.
This (old, white, conservative) man hate-reads my stories, and then adds them on lists with names that are clearly meant as an insult to me. But if that’s his goal, I have to say he’s just not doing it right!
How do I know he’s trying to send me a message? Well, because at first he just added my story to his list called “Propaganda”.
When this didn’t give him the attention he wanted, he felt the need to spell out his position. He began adding my stories to a list with the name “Propaganda, how…
