Blog Of Shame: Sockpuppets and The Politics of Personal Destruction

Autumn Sandeen’s latest “expose” over at Pam’s House Blend is about activist and blogger Ashley Love. She states her reason for this post is that: “However, I can’t help but feel that Ashley Love’s pattern of writing derogatory and defamatory commentary needs to be exposed to the light of day. It seems to me that her views are outlier viewpoints, and she’s too much of a public figure — both in and out of trans community — to ignore what she’s been writing over the past year about transgender identified people.” First lets define some terms: Defamation: the act of defaming; false or unjustified injury of the good reputation of another, as by slander or libel; calumny: She sued the magazine for defamation of character. Derogatory: tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing;disparaging; depreciatory: a derogatory remark. What was Love’s great defamatory statement? ts times

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