So This Is Why Writers are Not Boosted, Curated, etc.

RJ Carr
5 min readMay 13, 2024
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I started writing on Medium in 2018, six years ago. I never received a boost nor was I curated. When I look at my received feed from Medium, I see lots of anti-religious material.

It is obvious Medium is intensely secular and I am not. I just discovered that one writer/booster literally hates those whom, even if I disagree with them, I do not hate. This leads me to reassess my experience here. A disagreement is one thing, being happy when people expire is out of my scope of decency. I am not filled with joy each time a Republican dies and I don’t hate people of religion.

I suspected my faith disqualified me for any form of boosting or curation but I had no idea that the vision of Medium was so hateful.

I am neither a Republican nor Democrat.

If my political views were a party, its very name would be an oxymoron.

Now I see if I want to get boosted, I have to write material the boosters support. I have to celebrate each time a Republican dies. I have to embrace militant atheism and agree with the following points: Trump voters are idiots, racists, misogynists, homophobes, traitors and dumb.

In 2016, Michael Moore, who was not campaigning for Trump, gave an address announcing he will win. Moore knew it…

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