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This is GOLD. CLEARLY I need to up my nom de plum game. Franklin used names that implied the following Intersectional Identities (irony alert:) male Female Doctor Muslim wealthy aristocratic Franklin was a Troll God. Only
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Pseudonyms can’t work in an environment governed by strict identity politics in which what kind of genitals or color of an author’s skin determine credibility at least as much as the content of arguments. How can we know to discredit an author for privilege without seeing?
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If you use a pseudonym, you're automatically a white male, because only white males would need to hide their identity. On account of how much...power and privilege it gives them.
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They're even familiar in style. A lot of these could seamlessly jump to Twitter, especially if substituting Japan for Greece and Rome.
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Brimstone and hellfire sermons against pseudonyms are probably also in the American tradition. ping
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Soviet tradition too: Stalin, Trotsky, Lenin....
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In McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission (1995) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McIntyre_v._Ohio_Elections_Commission … the Court held that an Ohio statute that prohibits anonymous political or campaign literature is unconstitutional. Writing for the Court, Justice Stevens asserted that such action is protected by the
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First Amendment, and therefore violated the constitutional principle of freedom of speech. Justice Stevens wrote, “Under our Constitution, anonymous pamphleteering is not a pernicious, fraudulent practice, but an honorable tradition of advocacy and of dissent.
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Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.. . . It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights, and of the First Amendment in particular:
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to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation-and their ideas from suppression-at the hand of an intolerant society. “
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