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Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026

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In my opinion @TracingWoodgrains has a lot chutzpah complaining about a lack of civility/norms given the active roll that he and his friends at Blocked and Reported played in dismantling those norms. TWG spent a decade knocking down trees to get at the devil and now that the wind is blowing he finds himself with nowhere to hide. BarnabyCajones, LibsOfTikTok, DataRepublican, and all the other right-coded online commentators he tried to shame, dox, or sic a Twitter-mob on over the years send their regards.

What are you talking about dude? That's like the exact opposite of the block and reported/trace/rdrama ethos. Trace hoaxed LibsOfTikTok to show that she was a credulous hack, not to dox or chase her off the internet. You're perfectly happy to see this happen when it's going after lefty institutions and frankly those are farm or often the targets, but you have this absurd and burning hatred the one time it's mildly done against your own hack pundit.

show that she was a credulous hack

Exactly, he proved she's a real journalist, not just some tiktoker.

you have this absurd and burning hatred the one time it's mildly done against your own hack pundit.

Wrong direction, I would suspect. Burning hatred is less about LoTT and more that Trace was "one of our guys" that took a... certain kind of turn, made a bad decision, and got treated quite poorly for it. Bad blood on both sides.

I don't think he's doxxed anyone. Shamed, certainly.

Wrong direction

Indeed. When a scoundrel acts like a scoundrel that's just the way of things. When someone who says they're all about honesty and integrity and then treats honesty and integrity as a chump's game, that is a betrayal of principal.

...and a betrayal is always going to be worse than honest enmity

An ethos is not what you say you are, an ethos is how you behave in the breach.

You can't be "anti-cancel culture" while also "unmasking" your enemies and urging your followers to to go after them.

You can't be "anti-cancel culture" while also "unmasking" your enemies and urging your followers to to go after them.

He didn't do that, it didn't happen. Taylor Lorenz is the one who doxed LibOfTikTok. If you were just some guy on the internet then this misunderstanding is reasonable but you've been holding this absurd grudge since it happened and surely you should know this.

it didn't happen.

This is the sequence of events as I recall them...

Is the implication here that hoaxing someone in close temporal proximity in time to when they are doxxed makes you also a doxxer?

No, the implication here is that "Trace" the assistant producer described as having helped expose LibsfTikTok, and TracingWoodgrains the motte poster are the same person.

You understand that the title of that episode is referencing the hoax right? It means exposed her as a hack. Didn't dox her, didn't chase her off an platform, didn't try to silence her in any way. Merely exposed her as a hack

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