Reaxxion, the world’s crappiest right wing woman-hating excuse for a video game site, has now officially responded to my post revealing that a GamerGate manifesto they recently published was literally a repurposed John Birch Society newspaper ad from the mid-1960s, with words like “communist” removed and replaced with their GamerGate equivalents.
Whether the, er, “author” of the post was trolling, or just the world’s least subtle plagiarist, it was a giant embarrassment for Roosh and Reaxxion. And so, in the course of a nearly 1000-word post, Reaxxion “ethics officer” announces that they’ve shitcanned the author – and congratulates the site for its heroic bravery for throwing out a writer who copied his entire post from an old John Birch Society newspaper ad from the mid-1960s, with words like “communist” removed and replaced with their GamerGate equivalents.
That’s all well and good, because journalists aren’t supposed to copy pretty much their entire posts from a John Birch Society newspaper ad from the mid-1960s, with words like “communist” removed and replaced with their GamerGate equivalents. If you’re an editor and catch a writer doing this, you’re supposed to send that writer packing. (Remember Stephen Glass?)
But Roberts ignores what is really the most interesting and revealing thing about the whole incident, which is that a writer copied his entire post from an old John Birch Society newspaper ad from the mid-1960s, with words like “communist” removed and replaced with their GamerGate equivalents – AND NO ONE NOTICED UNTIL I POINTED IT OUT.
And why is that? Because the hysterical anti-communist rhetoric of the original ad sounds pretty much identical to the ridiculously over-the-top rhetoric that’s characterized GamerGate from the start. And it’s rooted in the same sort of reactionary politics.
Which is itself even more embarrassing than the plagiarism itself.
The John Birch Society, if you don’t already know, isn’t just a right-wing group. It’s a group so far to the right that even the National Review has denounced it. As a Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Report notes that for years those on the left and on the right basically saw the Birchers as “the political equivalent of an addled uncle sent down to the basement rec room to drink, rant and hopefully pass out” before he had a chance to thoroughly embarrass the whole family by saying something truly dreadful.
I found the Bircher’s newspaper ad in a newspaper from 1966. At that time, the Birchers were fierce opponents of the civil rights movement in general and Martin Luther King Jr. in particular, labeling him a tool of the communists. As the SPLC report notes, Birchers feared that “the African-American freedom movement was being manipulated from Moscow with the goal of creating a “Soviet Negro Republic” in the Southern United States.”
Of course, the Birchers saw communists hiding behind every tree and under every bed. Indeed, the group’s founder, Robert Welch, was convinced that even President Dwight Eisenhower was a treasonous Communist puppet, and that LBJ was plotting to turn the United States over to the Communists even as he sent troops to fight against the Viet Cong.
So congratulations, GamerGaters, you’re now as officially ridiculous as the John Birch Society.
It might be a good idea to reflect a little on your life choices.
oh, peas, go do your own research, rightwing person. How old are you, anyway?
Ah, did I miss the fun? Maybe he won’t stick the flounce.
I love the disingenuousness of posting a bullshit strawargument, avoiding every response and then flouncing away shaking their head about how awful people are because they believe “strawargument” and isn’t that just terrible?
Whinger: “Why don’t you filthy liberals consider babies human?!”
WHTM: “Um, dude, of course fetuses are human but they aren’t yet people, you need to balance that against the needs of the actual living person outside of the fetus.”
Whinger: “If you don’t consider kids people, at what age are you allowed to kill them because they are annoying?”
WHTM: “Dude! We’re not talking about kids, we’re not even talking about fetuses who *could* survive outside the womb!”
Whinger: “Well this pregnant woman who said hello to me in the grocery store the other day is totally disappointed by the fact that you won’t tell me what scientific evidence you have to *prove* that babies aren’t human and deserve to die!”
WHTM: “NO ONE IS SAYING THAT BABIES AREN’T HUMAN!”
Whinger: “You are all so mean! I mean we agree on things like the internet is cool and rain is wet, why can’t you just agree to disagree on the fact that women are stupid and can’t be trusted to know whether having a baby is a good idea for them? I’m a feminist because I said so, and it’s so rude of you to tell me I can’t be just because I’ve got a penis!”
WHTM: “WHAT?!? I MEAN, HOW… WHERE THE… WHAT?!?!
Whinger: “Okay, fine, I’m going to go play with my toys now, and I’ll come back when you aren’t being so mean.”
In unrelated news, “shit-spitting pus-weasel” is a thing of beauty! Definitely +1 internets to you, M!
He didn’t, he just went off to stink up some other threads.
Troll has gone over to the Roosh thread. FLOUNCE FAIL! (As is pretending to be agreeable.)
*And is…
Ninja’d!
“If you are indeed male, feminism isn’t for you!” — ParodoxicalIntention, explaining how men cannot be feminists
If you disagree with this statement, please speak up.
I guess I can’t actually leave this thread without people complaining anyway? Bummer.
Now I’m gonna be a really really REALLY big boy and leave now. To play with my toys. As asserted by other threadgoers. TBH I feel less hated and more “omg look at all the internet people lovin’ me everywhere I go!” Can I post my Tumblr here too?
So I kinda skimmed this thread, but as far as I can tell the takeaway message is that exfoliating someone is murder. Close the spas!
You just get creepier and creepier with every comment, d00d.
Learn to read for comprehension, troll.
“Feminism isn’t FOR you” means it isn’t aimed at you, not that you’re not allowed to have anything to do with it. It’s FOR women. It’s to liberate us. Nobody’s saying a man can’t be a feminist ally. We’d very much like that to be the case. But the movement isn’t ABOUT you, and that’s just too hard to bear, isn’t it?
I’ve lost track of how many times this troll’s said he’s going to flounce. At any rate, the flounce fail counter must be ticking.
@Katz: exfoliating someone else against their wishes is distasteful at best. Killing them would be murder.
Kinda late, and obviously not going to make an impact, but I didn’t say fully self-actualized, I said fully-actualized. The point being that an actual, existing, really human being has rights that are NOT TRUMPED by the rights of a potential, possible, might-one-day-be-a human being if it’s lucky and survives gestation and birth.
@Unimaginative It’s utter chaos, no point shall be made. But thanks for clarifying anyway.
I just have a hard time imagining drawing a line at where a fetus/embryo inside the womb is less worthy of rights than one that’s gotten out.
That’s like thinking a teenager is less human than an adult simply because s/he hasn’t turned 18, isn’t it?
No. No, it isn’t. Not remotely.
Why is a woman less worthy of rights than what’s in her womb, Right Wingnut?
MURDER TOOLS!
http://www.ecamellia.com/_var/gfx/6b4c741f996bcd94ef2cf6dd5a6599b9.jpg
What part of the word “birth” do you not understand, moron? Why does something inside my body have more rights than I do?
MOAR MURDER TOOLS!
http://www.venussecrets.com/images/EXFOL_S.jpg
Oh, and katz, if you can’t find pure olive oil soap, you can make it yourself. It’s super duper easy and relatively cheap.
I find it hard to believe that trolly mcTrollerson does not know that 30% to 50% of pregnancies spontaneously abort within the first trimester. Therefor I must assume that he is one of those who wishes to charge women with murder when their pregnancy aborts either spontaneously or is induced. There are some very creepy d00dz in the US. Probably not just there but I am thinking there is a heavy creeper concentration.
thebewilderness, women have actually been arrested after spontaneous abortions in the US, haven’t they?
@kittehserf:
Good god I hope not, and I sincerely doubt it. What I would believe is that women have been excommunicated for spontaneous abortions, or something like that… but arrested? We aren’t THAT far gone. Yet.
According to Alternet, it is happening, I’m afraid.
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/arrested-having-miscarriage-7-appalling-instances-where-pregnant-women-were