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It's really very brilliant. They enjoy thinking of themselves as trolls. They revel in it. They may not enjoy thinking of themselves as violent misogynists quite so much.
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It might be hard to reclaim leech.
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I don't think Trolling is especially related to misogyny, racism, religious beliefs, or whatever -- though it often involves one or more of such things -- or that it's specific to any one of them.
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But a lot of the really unpleasant misogyny going on as part of the things like GamerGate and similar is being called "trolling". And it's not, so we should stop calling it that, and start calling it misogynist abuse, because that's what it is.
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http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/wifoodstamps.asp
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But then stuff does come out where civil service people are leaking information to the press and announcing that because they _really_ didn't like the idea of independence, the normal rules of impartiality didn't apply. And then I wonder if sometimes I'm too anti-conspiracy!
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In a different universe where the vote went the other way there might be people thinking "why on earth wasn't I aware of that information before the vote?" (I mean if the RBS did have plans to leave then actually, I think that certainly should be brought to people's attention because it is really important and will influence how people vote... whereas I assume you think it should not in case it influence the vote.)
We all view the stories through our biases.
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