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Defamation lawsuit, here we come: my hat is off to Attorney Robert Barnes — 9 Comments

  1. I agree with you 100% Neo. When will false witness, slander and defamation be taken seriously? Only when it costs people, I guess.

  2. The same people doing the bullying and threatening probably consider themselves part of the anti-bullying crowd, and don’t even recognize themselves as doing what they profess to hate. They need to learn that when you defame and threaten real people as part of an online mob, there are consequences. [Neo]

    That they do not recognize themselves can be said about most aspects of leftism and Progressivism. Progressives project so much of the time; e.g., the Antifa whose actions are more like the Fascists they claim to hate than the people they attack.

    “They need to learn . . . .” No, they need to be taught a lesson — many times over — and that’s very different. They will never learn as long as the people who are attacked by them refuse to fight back verbally, media-wise, legally, and unfortunately sometimes physically. To refuse to do so is to enable them further. Why should they quit when there are no negative consequences to their actions and they usually get their intended results. As Andrew Breitbart said: “War!”

  3. “The same people doing the bullying and threatening probably consider themselves part of the anti-bullying crowd, and don’t even recognize themselves as doing what they profess to hate.” — Neo

    To me, this is one of the major problems of our current worship of Hate Crimes: that people invert truth and falsehood, good and evil, right and wrong, and never see themselves as perpetrators of the same sins they attribute to others.

    Leftists – double standards – etc etc etc.

    Pulling out a small piece of a post I quoted on the Facecrime thread today:
    “How is it OK to make a national news story out of not liking someone’s smile? Mocking someone’s smile is as bad as telling someone they have to smile more, and we’re all supposed to think the latter is blatantly offensive, right?”

  4. One of the commenters at the PJ post mentions that the lawsuits should not be limited to the leftist pundits, but include any “conservative” writers who double-down and don’t apologize.
    Works for me.

  5. “. . . people invert truth and falsehood, good and evil, right and wrong, and never see themselves as perpetrators of the same sins they attribute to others.” [Aesop Fan @ 4:12 pm]

    It’s not that they don’t see themselves as committing the same sin. It’s a method of attack which has become so systematized that it has a name. DARVO: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Opressor.

  6. Good for Robert Barnes! It’s about time! This is a perfect case, too. These students are not public figures, and they are minors. The NY Times, WaPo, magazine writers, entertainment celebrities, and even members of Congress can’t hide behind the Sullivan ruling.

  7. It won’t be enough. I don’t know if anything will be enough. The genie is way out of the bottle – when these kids are denied something important in the future, they won’t be told they’re being denied because of this, but it’ll always be out there.

    And it’s true for all of us who don’t toe the appropriate line. I’m a nice person who wishes ill on no one, but I’m not a Leftist; at the moment I live in Texas and feel fairly free to Live While Republican, but we’re likely to move to the West Coast once we figure out where all our kids will be settling down, and at that point I have the choice of being brave, out, and proud like our host, or risking reputation and livelihood if something I say turns out to be a microaggression. I don’t like my chances.

  8. And eventually perhaps one of them will be a Supreme Court nominee, and the deathless spawn of the likes of M. Hironoluluhito will have a grand old time retrieving their pitchforks to stick into him.

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    The thing with “passive-aggressive” is that the term itself is an irrefutable claim and a get-out-of-jail free card.

    . . .

    To the present posting: I wish to announce my agreement with all. Well said, and well done Mr. Barnes!. And thanks, Neo, for passing on the news.

  9. T on January 23, 2019 at 5:03 pm at 5:03 pm said:
    “. . . people invert truth and falsehood, good and evil, right and wrong, and never see themselves as perpetrators of the same sins they attribute to others.” [Aesop Fan @ 4:12 pm]

    It’s not that they don’t see themselves as committing the same sin. It’s a method of attack which has become so systematized that it has a name. DARVO: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Opressor.
    * * *
    Thanks for the information. I am sure the Left’s leadership knows this tactic well.
    The useful idiots, however, are probably clueless.

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