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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Sep 2015
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      11 CORRECTION: Breitbart does publish a FBI informant but he didn't write the Shaun King story. (Thanks to @CathyYoung63)

      2 replies 4 retweets 6 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Sep 2015
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      12. Stepping back a little: impersonation and counterfeiting are advanced by technology. Simulacrum is product of artifice.

      2 replies 3 retweets 10 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Sep 2015
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      13. Forget about the internet and social media: one of the key technologies that allowed for the proliferation of false identities is print

      2 replies 5 retweets 7 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Sep 2015
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      14. Jonathan Swift, like Joshua Goldberg, rarely used his real name: he was variously anonymous, A Modest Proposer, Lemuel Gulliver, etc.

      1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Sep 2015
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      15. Gulliver's Travel imitated the form of travel writing, just as Goldberg imitated SJW polemics.

      1 reply 1 retweet 7 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Sep 2015
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      16. A Bishop who read Gulliver's Travel when it first came out said he thought it was a pack of lies and didn't believe half of it.

      1 reply 2 retweets 9 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Sep 2015
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      17. The Gamergate people are now trying to disavow Goldberg, saying "he trolled everyone, he pretended to be both pro and anti-GG"

      5 replies 6 retweets 16 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Sep 2015
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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

      2 replies 3 retweets 13 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Sep 2015
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      19. Joshua Goldberg is a kind of dunderheaded, dimwitted Jonathan Swift, making crackpot "modest proposals" to discredit feminists, etc.

      3 replies 2 retweets 11 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Sep 2015
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      Jeet Heer Retweeted Cathy Young  🇺🇦

      20. As @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,

      Cathy Young  🇺🇦Verified account @CathyYoung63
      Daily Kos comments in response to "Tanya Cohen" piece calling for hate speech laws are actually encouraging. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/07/1383049/-Shooting-at-Geller-Hate-a-Thon-Shows-the-Need-for-a-Hate-Speech-Law-in-the-US …
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Sep 2015

      21. So, Goldberg started with kind of juvenile Swiftian approach but made the mistake of trying to apply it to real incitements to violence

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Sep 2015
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          22. The lesson here might be: it's okay to try and be Jonathan Swift but don't do it with calls for real violence while FBI is watching.

          6 replies 3 retweets 11 likes
        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Sep 2015
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          23. But the irony is that FBI has its own version of the Jonathan Swift game: the COINTELPRO strategy of incitement and entrapment.

          2 replies 3 retweets 15 likes
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