{"id":132885,"date":"2020-07-12T11:38:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T19:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=132885"},"modified":"2020-07-14T11:16:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T19:16:16","slug":"steve-sailer-scott-alexander-was-right-to-fear-doxing-after-all-cnn-doxes-a-tucker-carlson-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=132885","title":{"rendered":"Steve Sailer: Scott Alexander Was Right to Fear Doxing After All: CNN Doxes a Tucker Carlson Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was not doxxing. Doxxing refers to revealing a home address or personal details that a person wants to hide. This Tucker Carlson writer Blake Neff “doxxed” himself. He published ugly stuff online after publicy boasting for years about how he was Tucker’s main writer and then he ran away after his posting career was publicized (deleting his Twitter and Linked-in profiles). He wanted the benefits of anonymity to sling the n-word and humiliate women he knew while at the same time wanting people to know he was Tucker’s number one guy. He was clearly anti-social. In the Washington Post, the guy said in 2017: ” \u201cI would not necessarily oppose this city\u2019s destruction by nuclear fireball, even if I am in it at the time.” The Post noted<\/a>: “For her part, McKenzie expressed anxiety that Blake would feel moved to \u201ctrash\u201d her in his post-date debriefing…”<\/p>\n

It’s on Tucker for employing someone with such an anti-social bent. Tucker has often used bad judgment in the people he has hired and he brings this latest trouble on himself. <\/p>\n

The New York Times was not threatening to doxx Scott Alexander. Scott Alexander already outed himself using his first two names and his location. Scott’s upset that the world will not necessarily yield to all his wishes. It would be weird if the New York Times wrote about him without mentioning his full name. Why should they accommodate his whims that Scott could not bother protecting? Revealing someone’s name is not “doxxing.” <\/p>\n

Comments at Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* More comments.<\/a><\/p>\n

* I have been posting on autoadmit for more than 10 years now. Most regular readers there have known for a well over a year now that the poster CharlesXII was the top writer for Tucker Carlson. Neff\/charles dropped lots of deliberate clues on the forum, and even worked into carlson\u2019s scripts several references to some well known autoadmit \u201cinside jokes.\u201d He let his pride lead him into dangerous territory. After some time has passed, I believe that many autoadmit posters (and by the way, the site is generally known as \u2018xo\u2019) will come to admit that charles\/neff\u2019s actions led to his own downfall. Pride goeth before a fall.<\/p>\n

* Neff certainly hasn\u2019t been living under a rock for the last 12 years, and must know how intolerant and influential his opponents are\u2026and more importantly, how important Tucker\u2019s mission is. How could he have risked that for a few moments of venting?<\/p>\n

I actually know the answer to that\u2026because I vent in similar ways when the frustration factor with the far left gets high enough. And our country still has a first amendment\u2026for the time being. It\u2019s wrong that he was made to quit, but the practical truth is that if he didn\u2019t, probably the Ted Cruz\u2019s and Jim Jordan\u2019s of the world would stop appearing on Tucker\u2019s segments.<\/p>\n

When all is said and done, however, Neff\u2019s comments are an example of someone from the right defacing the metaphorical monuments of the left. Those monuments are eventually coming down, one way or another.<\/p>\n

* Tucker Carlson, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham and most of the the mainstream conservatives are Race Realists at heart.
\nThey just cannot speak the truth in the public.
\nAnn Coulter recently joked that she has asked her realtor to find a home in a very \u201cDiverse\u201d neighborhood and along that tweet was a story of a Black man killing some old white guy.<\/p>\n

As far as Leftist women are concerned.
\nThere\u2019s an old saying that when any society\u2019s women start to act like the most uncouth and vilest of men, then all hope is lost for that society.<\/p>\n

Tragically, hordes of modern white women have lost all of their feminine graces, have disfigured themselves with tramp-stamps, and have become so loud-mouthed and brutish that they are intolerable. They are seen by men throughout the world as nothing more than dim-witted whores who deserve the degrading treatment they receive at the hands of sweaty Dindus.<\/p>\n

* Legal boards were one of the last good obscure niches on the internet where smart, creative, interesting people could have unmoderated discussion. AutoAdmit\u2019s days are clearly numbered and JDU has already been dismantled.
\nI absolutely love Steve\u2019s work and have been ardently following it since the iSteve days, but I think he\u2019s next. AutoAdmit has (had?) maybe a few thousand users, tops, and \u201cthey\u201d worked their way in there, so a site as prominent as this has GOT to be in the cross hairs.<\/p>\n

* Operational Security includes the things you post online. There are no safe spaces.<\/p>\n

* One other funny thing to point out is that the head of the ADL\u2019s internet censorship division is a woman named Brittan Heller, who sued AutoAdmit over mean comments some posters made about her in 2007. Her husband, Nathaniel Gleicher, is the head of cybersecurity policy at Facebook.<\/p>\n

* Recently I tried to find out how an old amour of mine was doing who\u2019s not exactly computer literate or careful with who she provides with her information, and the only things I was able to glean was that she had tried to buy second hand furniture and liked recipes. And I\u2019m pretty good at the old internet sleuth act.<\/p>\n

Then when I called her up she had the balls to be disappointed that I hadn\u2019t stalked her better.<\/p>\n

* This should be a reality check for how people handle themselves online, including how Unz.com displays comment histories.<\/p>\n

One of the best features about Unz is the ability to post anonymously. It\u2019s funny that some posters will take offense to this, meanwhile if you go through their comment histories for an hour, you could find enough personal tidbits to narrow their identity down to under 100 IRL individuals.<\/p>\n

We’re approaching a point where algorithms can chew through a corpus of text and reliably extract key features \u2014 estimated age, geography, specific cultural references, etc. Anyone who posts for years under the same account is asking for trouble.<\/p>\n

Unz.com should stop providing comment histories for regular accounts beyond 6 months or so. Simply doing that would make a potential doxxing more difficult.<\/p>\n

* You expect Carlson \u2013 with the highest rated show in cable news\u2019 history \u2013 to throw himself under the bus because Neff was careless enough to let his guard down? Neff is eminently replaceable \u2013 heck, there must a dozen iSteve regulars who could churn out his type of copy.<\/p>\n

* How should Neff, Tucker Carlson, and Fox News, respectively, respond to this?<\/p>\n

What is Neff\u2019s best defense?<\/p>\n

How should Tucker Carlson frame things?<\/p>\n

What ideas and language can Steve and commenters here offer?<\/p>\n

* Check out his picture. He looks strikingly similar to a nerdy (said w\/ love) prematurely-balding blogger of Jewish heritage who has recently been in the news. He\u2019s also a writer for a television show.
\nGarden variety case of walking stereotype.<\/p>\n

Also, this guy was extremely sloppy in revealing personal details on that forum and slipping in Easter eggs in Tucker\u2019s scripts.<\/p>\n

Easter eggs being factoids or phrases that would be innocuous\/unremarkable to the public at large but recognizable to members of that community as essentially shout outs. It would be like one of us getting onto a show and somehow working the word whiskey into a conversation on miscegenation and then coming on here and pointing it out.<\/p>\n

That nexus with work would make the firing pretty automatic anywhere, even before the new normal of mass purges of the last month.<\/p>\n

* Tucker could say, \u201cWe believe in freedom and we don\u2019t look into our staff\u2019s private lives, as you would not like your employer to look into your private life.\u201d<\/p>\n

* Carlson \u201cthrowing him under the bus\u201d is an egregiously invalid characterization.<\/p>\n

Neff took an extended \u201cflyer\u201d by posting to an outlier group\u2013that is, outliers in the general public discourse\u2013and got nailed by his passionate, some say crazy, opposition. So now his boss has been dragged into it, which hampers his bosses ability to communicate, which is what Carlson is paid to do.<\/p>\n

When you have more of a voice, you are saddled with more responsibility. Carlson didn\u2019t ask Neff to post in that forum. Neff chose to. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.<\/p>\n

CNN\u2019s game is easy to identify: deconstruct satirical comments as literal, and mischaracterize a man\u2019s \u201cshorthand\u201d flip remarks as the doors into that man\u2019s heart\u2013unless it\u2019s one of them.<\/p>\n

Neff made himself vulnerable to that game, and by doing so, brought his boss into it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve worked for many corporations. If I brought my boss unwillingly into a public shitstorm, simply because of my ego, I would expect to be fired. The specifics of the elements that produced the outcome are irrelevant. Neff could have posted \u201cthere is no god,\u201d and if he was found out, Carlson would be right to let him go. It would be too polarizing a claim, going outside the general preview of Carlson\u2019s show, whether Carlson agreed or not.<\/p>\n

Neff was fucking around. His job is connected to his boss. He brought his boss into it\u2026 and that\u2019s that.<\/p>\n

I believe if I had Neff\u2019s plumb job, I\u2019d NEVER post on ANY outlier site, anonymously or not. It\u2019s just good corporate hygiene. And for fuck\u2019s sake! He was getting paid VERY well NOT to! That responsibility is a part of his pay scale.<\/p>\n

Professionally, Neff was a slob. He inadvertently brought his stink to work with him. Regardless of his intent, that\u2019s asking to be fired. Any corporation would do it. Has nothing to do with Fox in general, or Carlson\u2019s personal inclinations in particular. More to do with Neff\u2019s ego.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s ironic, but typical that the ego required for Neff to earn his professional position is the same ego that wound up cutting him off at the knees.<\/p>\n

Neff\u2019s antagonist to overcome isn\u2019t Fox, or even CNN.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s him. His existential battle is with himself.<\/p>\n

* It seems to me that this Neff fellow should be able to say whatever he pleases in his spare time. Is this not so?<\/p>\n

I am intrigued by the (apparently now widely accepted) idea that what you do in your spare time reflects on your employer. Well, isn\u2019t your spare time just that, yours?<\/p>\n

When did it become acceptable for employers to expect their employees to toe the line, not just whilst on the job, but wherever they went, and at any time of day? How is that any different from the slavery the left so widely decries?<\/p>\n

It seems to me that the American political right is focussed on quite the wrong things. Rather than attempting to defend what this Neff fellow said in his spare time, wouldn\u2019t the right stand a better chance of prevailing if they couched the matter in terms of, \u201cWhat Neff said in his spare time has nothing to do with the Tucker Carlson show and is no one\u2019s business but his own\u201d?<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t it high time that the American political right flung the left\u2019s utter lack of decency back in their teeth? Leftists can burn, loot, and destroy with impunity, but this chap makes a few innocuous remarks on a message board and that\u2019s it, his life is over? Really?<\/p>\n

Writers or no, if Tucker Carlson can\u2019t turn this around and reveal these cretinous, obnoxious busybodies for who they really are, he isn\u2019t half the man the Americans have made him out to be.<\/p>\n

* I grew up in a WASP family. We were all inculcated in fair play, being rewarded for merit, and that nepotism was bad. Great principles, but left us all defenseless in the face of the many immigrant tribes who put loyalty to the clan above all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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