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Old October 13th, 2014 #1
Sam Emerson
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Default Thomas Buhls' Guide to Bad Writing

Thomas Buhls is a writer for Traditionalist Youth Network. Two weeks ago he wrote a post about Gamergate, "How SJW’s Block /pol/itically Correct Speech, and a Model for Intervention". I've been mildly interested in finding out more about that, and a pro-White writer's take seemed like just the labor saving device I'd been looking for. Those who've never tried to understand an ongoing internet feud have no idea how much garbage you have to read just to get the basic facts, so I was hoping Buhls would give me the straight scoop.

No such luck. While it's possible that Buhls' post could be a starting point for further investigation, as a stand alone it's useless. The problems start with the title. SJW is never defined. I know it stands for Social Justice Warrior, and that it refers to the kind of politically correct scolds, schoolmarms and rats who act as the system's volunteer enforcers on social media sites and blogs. But it's a subcultural term, and should be defined.

He then tries to explain the SJW's methods, but he doesn't put much effort into it. Instead he relies on no less than ten links to other articles and videos. For someone unfamiliar with Gamergate, and that would be almost everyone, it would be inexplicable. The nine step chart with its many goto commands doesn't make it any easier.

He then gives an extremely vague summary of something that happened on 4chan, the (now formerly) "anything goes" image board. At no point in the summary does he mention that m00t owns 4chan, which is the key to understanding how 4chan was politically cleansed. As with the SJW term he just assumes m00t's role is common knowledge.

Having made nothing clear he moves on to his solution, with five more links. The founder of 8chan, Fredrick Brennan, is the key figure here. He's supposedly "power invulnerable", for reasons that remain unmentioned. Maybe they're in the video linked in his name. He has no Wikipedia page. I've never heard of him.

Buhls suffers from the blogger's disease. He thinks his readers come from his subculture. This is probably true, anyone else is going to stop reading. This is the opposite of outreach. If you want more than cultist readers lose the jargon, define your terms, and don't lazily rely on links. Or just keep doing what you've been doing, it's only never worked.
 
 

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