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She was a celebrity on talk shows who runs an extremely popular Twitter account that makes extremely disingenuous posts to bring furry on the people she didn’t agree with.

Releasing who she is was fine.

If a Ku Klux clan member had a very popular anonymous YouTube channel making fun of black people and bragging about it on Tucker Carlson, is it journalism to investigate and share where they work and who they are?



Maybe, but I wouldn't modulate whether or not it's journalism based on the partisan affiliation of the doxxing target.


It's not based on partisan affiliation, I never said anything of the sort. I said bad actions/bad actors.

The fact that you assumed I was talking about targeting conservatives just goes to show that they happen to be the ones rocking the boat with violent rhetoric, which occasionally gets backed up by actions.


>It's not based on partisan affiliation, I never said anything of the sort. I said bad actions/bad actors.

This is just shifting the partisan question-begging to the notion of "bad actions/bad actors." Why not just embrace the "doxxing is good when we do it" point that I originally made?


It's not about partisanry, it's about people facing consequences for doing bad things. Why are you ascribing partisanship? You can hold right-wing values and not harass trans people. Conversely you can be a left-wing terrorist. You ascribed partisan affiliation in your head, it was never an argument I was making.




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