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Extreme cognitive dissonance aka AS and the panel "debacle"...[edit]
I think this article needs to expand - principally on his interactions with Anita Sarkeesian. This smug f**k*r (Carl) saddled up to the front row with the single intention of intimidating or trying to induce a reaction from her. PLENTY of people who disagree with Anita have had reasonable, calm debates/private discussions with her - yet Carl has presented what went down with her at the panel as a totally one-sided issue. Her made out as if Anita's problem with him was a purely ideological issue. Horseshit. This is a woman who, for the past 4+years, has had to deal with constant 1) Death Threats 2) Rape threats 3) Doxxing - and as far as any sane person can see, Sargon has been an enabler to this sh*t. Her reaction, frankly, was reserved, compared to the crap she has had to endure because she is a woman with an opinion concerning "traditionally male" spaces. I am too new and too incoherent to make a section on this. I hope someone will. There should be sauces. Regards, --Weird Chinese gurl (talk) 19:12, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
- I wouldn't worry too much about being new. Don't let that keep you from making the change. We can hash out any problems an edit has after you make it. It might even get reverted, but even then it gives a starting place for discussing the content. The short version "he showed up and quietly sat in the front row of a panel she gave and she called him an awful person for being there" would miss the whole "He spent years of his life obsessively making videos attacking her character far beyond any bound of reason, which prompted thousands of his followers to attack, threaten, and harass her for years", which, in turn, would miss "Sargon was only one of dozens of prominent antifeminist psychos making that exact pitch". So that's a lot of context to pack into one story. Not sure how you'd do it either. ikanreed 🐐Bleat at me 19:20, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
'Lying about being black'[edit]
"Sargon" (I cannot use this ridiculous meme name without square quotes) did not admit to this. He at most admitted to exaggerating his "blackness" by saying his mixed-race grandpa was black. His grandpa was from St. Helena, an island of mixed race people off the coast of southwest Africa. so "Sargon" is probably something like 1/8 black 7/8 white, but almost certainly has significant levels of sub-Saharan African ancestry (unless he's lying about the St. Helena thing, which we have no evidence of). — Unsigned, by: 213.186.171.13 / talk
Is he a theist or an atheist?[edit]
Is he on religion's side in the skepticism debate? --Teslashark (talk) 12:58, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
Russian propaganda[edit]
This video presents Sargon's opinions on the Western media coverage of the Russian aggression in Ukraine. It just makes me sick to see the kind of clearly false claims made in defense of Putin's war. Ariel31459 (talk) 16:25, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
Would Carl's defense of Assad count as horseshoe theory?[edit]
I personally don't think so, given that they're both socially conservative authoritarians. Albeit one is far more successful with their political prospects than the other. I'm curious to hear other editors' thoughts on the subject though. Vee (talk) 00:32, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
