"Gee, I don't know," said the opinionated whore with 18,000 followers who strongly criticizes politicians, cops, and other violent sociopaths on a daily basis. https://t.co/pdJrIJQkL7
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 19, 2022
The bourgeois bootlickers who think it would be a wonderful idea for everyone to be forced to use their “real names” (i.e. their government names) on social media are at it again. They claim it would make the internet a nicer place, because as everybody knows Facebook is a perfect exemplar of how every social media site should look and operate. This tweet was in response to a blue-checked cretin named David Klion opining that every Twitter user with over 10,000 followers should be forcibly outed, based on that perennial mating-cry of the smug, sheltered, and stupid, “If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear”. He also belched up some sort of inanity about “democracy“, but not long after I quote-tweeted him he deleted his tweet (which is why what you see above is no longer a quote tweet). Well, let me tell you a little story about what happens when one speaks out publicly, not even under her government name but under a very well-known nom de guerre. I’ve never told this publicly before, but since I’m semi-retired and the damage is long done, I think it’s time.
In 2015 I made the decision to work and write under the same name. After a momentary surge in business, I slowly lost clients who were either offended by my being something more than a pleasant, pretty façade, or were afraid they’d be arrested for consorting with a high-profile rabble-rouser. In 2016, there was even a rumor going around Seattle that I was under direct police surveillance; even some of the clients I didn’t lose switched to paying me electronically so if they were intercepted by cops, there was no cash they could steal as “evidence” of patronizing a prostitute. Obviously that never happened, but the damage was already done. I don’t regret being who I am, or saying what had to be said, and I’ve never been any good at maintaining multiple personae anyhow. So though I probably wouldn’t do anything differently if I had to do it again, it would be a lie to pretend that standing up for what I fervently believe in, under the name by which I’m known to the world, wasn’t a pearl of great price. And while I’m hardheaded and uppity enough to have made that choice, and philosophical enough to accept the enormous financial costs, many others might not be so willing to speak truth to power if they knew it might damage their ability to make a living. But sure, go ahead and forcibly dox everyone with over 10,000 followers; I’m sure that’ll be great for “democracy”.
