Poop deck doxing

"There is nothing so dangerous as a woman with nothing left to lose."-- voice over narrator.

I recognize Caitlin's description of the problem of digital mob rule; its potential impact lurked in the background long before Spike Lee fell into an "I'm gonna get that sucka," mindset and posted the wrong address for his followers, with the resulting fallout. I am guilty of it myself, to the extent that even if my former disability center is lying about my former supervisor's departure, the sheer force of my emotional pain has had a significant dampening impact. Fortunately for you, I do not opine on Leelah/Joshua Alcorn's orientation. Not due to lack of courage, simply that it is news to me and I can't waddle out buffalo chips chasing every prairie fire, except to reiterate what I've conveyed before. Suicide is selfish. A select number of individuals may have no choice at the end of the day, but I have trouble believing that a 14 year old's suffering was so extreme that he/she had to punish his family with a irreversible solution. Look at the tenacity of Cosby's accusers, or genocide survivors. A didactic scold like Martin Amis isn't wrong about the strength of survivors, using his novel art to excavate fascism. (More on that another day, I have to tackle the pragmatics of post-European imperialism)

China's news agency put out the usual statistical factoid that 35 people died in riots on the mainland. I'm willing to bet John Lewis, as an Atlantic contributor, isn't in temple lighting incense for these 35-- my point being that today's activists should be as honest with their blinders as my generation is not.. My scapegoating exorcism occurred 15 years ago, and nothing has changed about the language as a whine of dependency. I do not wish to return to it, at least not as a protester. The world of IL is a subset, just as this Texas Monthly on Michelle Lyons is a subset, an oracle tableau of stark banality which is not really about the death penalty, because sometimes, there are no answers, and the European line in the sand over life imprisonment glosses over their parallel ethical morass in the worst cases. What Pamela is exploring is a subculture with its own price tag, creating its own expatriates.

It was posted to Writersblock by Venkat, and is the best long form article of 2014, receiving a staggering 8 votes. It may be read as a progressive victory in the wings, but there is always an undertow, a warning in those wings. Surviving is never quite the same when what has to be survived is overwhelming. How we vanish, it always has a ripple effect.