re: #49 Charles Johnson

I’ve been staying out of this because it’s just depressing to see this kind of asinine smearing by the far left of a very eloquent and effective voice — someone we need more than ever right now.

But I think Joy was badly served by the guy she hired to investigate these posts; he came out with a bunch of ludicrous poorly sourced claims, and got instantly called out for them. And it’s being attributed to Joy now, because she accepted his reports.

Agreed…. but…. the “investigation,” no matter who was doing it, looks shady. It’s her blog. She knows perfectly well whether or not these are things she wrote. If they’re embarrassing to 2018 Joy, that’s understandable. No doubt 2004 Charles (and the posters who were hanging with him here) is embarrassing to 2018 Charles - but 2018 Charles isn’t denying that those were his words or his forum all those years ago, or opening an “investigation” to find out who “placed that stuff in the LGF archives.” He’s owning them and moving on, and we respect him all the more for that.

And… saying that, I also think it’s just disgusting the way she’s been targeted by the puritopian left and Glenn Fucking Greenwald.

Agreed. I want to defend her. She’s just making it awfully hard to do with what look like a series of increasingly boneheaded choices.