11 CORRECTION: Breitbart does publish a FBI informant but he didn't write the Shaun King story. (Thanks to @CathyYoung63)
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12. Stepping back a little: impersonation and counterfeiting are advanced by technology. Simulacrum is product of artifice.
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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
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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.
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15. Gulliver's Travel imitated the form of travel writing, just as Goldberg imitated SJW polemics.
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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.
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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"
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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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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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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.
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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.
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