Wednesday, October 29, 2008

On Political Screen Names

I am a fine one to talk posting as I do under a handle of my own about politics. If I thought there was something intrinsically wrong with a nom de plume I obviously would not be doing it myself. What I think is wrong is to take a name and abandon it. A handle, an anonymous identity, should be a way of showing an aspect of yourself to the world. Especially when it would harm you in the rest of your life.

Where it goes over the edge is if you use the identities, if you are posting under multiple names, to be your own chorus or to abandon a name as soon as someone challenges you.

And a name should be a name rather than a title. If you have to put "patriot" or "rules" in your name, you aren't or don't. That's what I've got to say for now.

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