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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@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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@CathyYoung63's answer to her own questions is reasonable: "right-wing libertarian with a 'Muslim menace' fixation."4 replies 1 retweet 10 likes -
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26. I'd amend Young's accurate ideological assessment thus: "right-wing libertarian with a 'Muslim menace' fixation & free speech obsession"
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27. But beyond ideology Joshua Goldberg belongs to a social (or anti-social) milieu: the dank basement dwelling troll world
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28. "The 20-year-old, who lived at home with his parents and was described as a recluse by neighbors, was a prolific tweeter"
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29. Beyond ideology, beyond social milieu, Joshua Goldberg seems to have been arrested (perhaps rightly) for who he pretended to be.
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30. If you pretend to be a terrorist, the state is likely to treat you as a terrorist. "You are what you pretend to be" -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
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