17. The Gamergate people are now trying to disavow Goldberg, saying "he trolled everyone, he pretended to be both pro and anti-GG"
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18. That's a spurious defence because when Goldberg wrote "feminist" anti-Gamergate articles he was being Swiftian: pretending to be a SJW
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19. Joshua Goldberg is a kind of dunderheaded, dimwitted Jonathan Swift, making crackpot "modest proposals" to discredit feminists, etc.
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Jeet Heer Retweeted Cathy Young 🇺🇦
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@CathyYoung63 usefully notes some readers on Daily Kos saw through his ruse when he pretended to be feminist:https://twitter.com/CathyYoung63/status/642889121699102721 …Jeet Heer added,
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@HeerJeet referencing GG (on Feministing). The Daily Kos one wasn't on feminist themes, btw.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@HeerJeet He also didn't interact regularly with any GG people. When he tweeted to me (and to Milo) it wasn't about GG.3 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
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@HeerJeet His tweets to me were promoting his Thought Catalog piece attacking Amnesty International for supporting hate speech laws and1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@HeerJeet for supposedly applying a double standard to anti-Christian and anti-Muslim speech.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@HeerJeet The vibe I got from him "right-wing libertarian with a 'Muslim menace' fixation."2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@CathyYoung63 I think that's fair -- although I'd perhaps add "and free speech obsession" (which explains his SJW stuff).
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@HeerJeet I actually remember that exchange quite well because I tried to explain to him that he was misreading the Amnesty text (he thought1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes - Show replies
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