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 🇺🇦
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,
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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 asks: who was the "real Joshua Goldberg" underneath the multiple identities?2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
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25. I think
@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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@HeerJeet So I'm actually wondering if he got so caught up in his own game that he started trolling for trolling's sake5 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@CathyYoung63 Clearly this was a guy who got off on trolling. That's more "real" than any ideological or cultural commitments.
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