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aristarchus [soylentnews.org] writes:

Sometimes it's fun to Right Wing Watch [rightwingwatch.org]:

Jason Kessler, the organizer of the infamous 2017 Unite the Right white supremacist gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia, accused another alt-right propagandist of plagiarizing “research” Kessler posted on his Twitter feed. Kessler’s research appears to be little more than pulling up excerpts from a 2018 lawsuit that is easily accessible using typical web search sites.

In this latest spat, Kessler’s fury is directed at the prolific alt-right propagandist Joseph Jordan. In May, the Southern Poverty Law Center identified Jordan as the man behind the “Eric Striker” persona at white nationalist Michael “Enoch” Peinovich’s The Right Stuff podcast network. In recent months, Jordan has taken to role-playing as a “journalist,” authoring articles for an extreme-right website called “National Justice.”

Not too Brietbart, the alt-right!

Kessler accused Jordan of plagiarism yesterday after Jordan published an article rehashing allegations the organization Life After Hate made in a 2018 lawsuit against Christian Picciolini, a former extremist turned de-radicalization activist. Prior to Jordan’s article, Kessler had looked up the court documents related to the lawsuit and posted a link to them in his Twitter feed—information that Jordan said he had “uncovered” by himself.

“Now, I feel like I’m the victim of a more pernicious plagiarism because the people who are stealing the content have an agenda of trying to silence me and ostracize me,” Kessler said in a Periscope stream. “When somebody takes the product of my labor and puts it on their Twitter feed as if it is their own again and again, that’s bullshit,” he added.

If one does not understand what is wrong with racism, it is not surprising that one does not understand the legal protections for "intellectual property." Or put more simply, one cannot possess what one does not have the capacity for.

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