A Jewish Education for an Irate Reader
Should you ban the abusive commenter just because he's a schmuck?
In response to recent JFK Facts coverage, a savant named Jay wrote in one of our comment boards:
Jeff, I didn’t know you hate Jews so much. Go f*** yourself.
Now, I don’t know Jay, and Jay doesn’t know me. So I can only guess why he writes such things. He is a paid subscriber who tests my faith in that sound business credo, The customer is always right. I would respond in kind to his factually erroneous (and physically impossible) observations, save for that sound Christian credo, Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
I do have the option of banning Jay, because the site’s comment policy bans obscenity. The geniuses of Substack (and I say that with sincere admiration for their platform) give me easy functionality to exclude Jay from JFK Facts conversations. Push a blue button, and we won’t be hearing any more abuse from Jay.
But what good would that do? Rather than do unto Jay as Jay did unto me, I prefer to tell him…
