While browsing Voat one day, I saw a link for Vox Day’s “name and shame” wiki for social justice warriors.

Me, I’m on the fence as to the merits at this point, given it’s fairly new, but judging by the page histories, a lot of SJWs were really mad and tried vandalizing it almost immediately, so someone must be afraid of callouts, and since they can’t just get it shut down by leaning on Vox or the powers that usually be, they went for the direct approach. It was foolish, but since subtlety couldn’t work, that’s what they went with.

I bring this up because I’ve noticed a disturbing trend. It’s no secret Twitter and Facebook are in pawn to social justice warriors, with the former’s “Trust and Safety Council being openly staffed with cronies from Feminist Frequency and Crash Override Network (CON) [who themselves are now joined at the hip] and the latter being run by a man who openly came out in support of BlackLivesMatters and punished employees who disagreed. However, this is just an overt display of the subtle power these groups have had over these organizations, which are being overt about their power since they have had the leadership in their pocket so long everyone already knew they were the power behind the throne, so they just decided to quit pretending otherwise.

However, I do agree with Vox on at least one issue: social justice warriors love to inculcate themselves into positions of power, solidify their grip on it, then, once their grip on power is assured, step out of the shadows only after they can be assured they cannot be easily removed.

Below is a case study on how this works, using my favorite example of nepotism and milking backdoor connections for their own gain, Brianna “John Flynt” Wu.

Exhibit A — Wu tried to go after yours truly when I had the audacity to rehost Transeye West’s work on my own personal blog after Wu harassed a trans person off Medium for daring to have a perfectly legal opinion that just happened to “deadname” him. Given Breitbart already blew the lid off this story, and it has been confirmed by college records and voter registries, amongst other evidence, doing this was just a childish act of spite. Worse, notice how Wu couldn’t just report this the usual way, wanting instead someone on staff to talk to? Reason is simple: Wu is a big fan of having people in power in their back pocket who will do their bidding and silence people they disagree with, as I will elucidate below. Exhibit B — Wu tries to get a Facebook staff member in their back pocket to do the same, mostly to remove anything mentioning his former name as John Flynt (I looked, didn’t see any death threats around the time Wu tried to establish this “backchannel”, as he’s fond of calling these corrupt connections to people in power) Exhibit C — Wu in general trying to gain connections in the backrooms of power, but don’t let this fool you, as seen above, Wu will run roughshod over other trans people to save himself, this is just a combination of virtue signaling and an attempt to justify himself. Exhibit D — Wu tries to get connections at Spotify. Wu’s friends often help establish the backchannel, and ideally, one of Wu’s friends is already in a place of power to do the silencing of whatever Wu wants silenced on Wu’s behalf. Exhibit E — Wu contemptuously sneering at Jaime Walton for daring to tip off Nintendo about Alison Rapp’s pedophile defending views using official channels. Considering Walton has acheived a lot more via official channels and Wu is simply a loudmouth with a failed game company several hundred thousand down and no appreciable profit to its name while Walton has actual success saving children from sexual abuse she does for no benefit of her save being able to sleep at night knowing she defended the innocent, we see here a perfect cross section of Wu’s arrogant love of pulling the levers of power and contempt for those who don’t play shadow dictator and get stuff done via normal protocol. Exhibit F — More virtue signaling. Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn have personally blown off Wu in the past on Twitter, and even Randi Harper is no friend of Wu, who ironically likes to play big shot even though Anita, Quinn, and Harper are all much more successful at having actual influence. It also bears mentioning that whenever we see Wu talk about the results of this backchanneling, it’s basically so Wu can posture about how many more cronies he has in his pocket to do his bidding and enforce his whims. Exhibit G- Wu tries to establish a backchannel at Imgur. In this, Wu apparently failed, being informed even Zoe Quinn is not above everyone else and had to use email support like everyone else, but given all the above, it’s quite telling the first thing Wu wants to do is grab the ear of a friendly Imgur staff member and not have to bother waiting in line for their request for intervention to be handled.

All the above establishes Brianna Wu has zero qualms trying to line up connections at places they deem important to have connections so they can get top priority, front of the line support to silence other people and because they are “too important” to have to submit things through normal channels like the other plebians (isn’t that basically acting really “privileged”, to use SJW terminology?)

However, this doesn’t cover Wu’s biggest priority back channel, namely, Twitter, where Wu has almost god like power (or has for the longest time at least) to silence anyone they please.

Below is a breakdown of why Twitter is, to be crude, a hugbox where Wu can be quite sure anything that offends or annoys him in any way will be banished, and it’s thanks to naked abuse of cronyism:

The Twitter trust and security officer is “Del Harvey”, a professional alias used by Alison Shea, which Gawker, of all places, covered in 2011, though they misspell her name in the article as “Allison”.



Ms. Harvey is well-known — in general and on Twitter, where she has 314,000 followers. Before being an early hire of Twitter, she worked for Perverted Justice, the consulting organization for a popular NBC TV show called “To Catch a Predator”. Harvey worked both in research and as bait for child predators, convincingly playing the roles of underage females and males, in person and on the phone. Here is an eight minute interview she did on ABC’s “The View”, as an example of her prominence at the time.



A sample of what Harvey’s Twitter account (@delbius) looks like at present:

She isn’t a heavy tweeter and is on leave until mid-January. But look at six of her seven latest tweets, posted on New Year’s Eve. She’s engaging in lighthearted banter with one of her best friends on Twitter — Glenn Fleishman.

This is not an anomaly. Glenn is Del’s “4th best friend” on Twitter.

And who is Brianna Wu/John Walker Flynt’s very best friend on Twitter? Why that would be… Glenn Fleishman.

In both cases (Del-Glenn and John-Glenn), the Twitter friendships come from their real-world relationships. Glenn has written extensively on security issues at Twitter, interviewing Del.



As for Glenn and John, Glenn said he’s a “big fan” of John and that John is a “great friend”. Likewise, John calls Glenn a “good friend”.

https://tweetsave.com/glennf/status/526884271428870144

https://tweetsave.com/spacekatgal/status/625350553040748544

…. And Glenn gave John his first break in being an Apple “journalist” by letting John write for Glenn’s publication “The Magazine” in April 2013. “The Magazine” was started by Marco Arment, so that’s why John kisses up to that particular wealthy white man (which is ironic, given John/Brianna’s open contempt of white men).



https://tweetsave.com/spacekatgal/status/672569472553754625



He also helped Brianna/John get work with Macworld, which is Glenn’s main writing gig. They also cross-pollinate each other’s podcasts.



As for Del Harvey/Alison Shea…

Shea went to Davidson College, where as a junior she founded the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance in 2001. Excerpts from an article about it:

According to its constitution, the GSA hopes to provide a “safe space for those of diverse gender identity, and all lesbians, bi-sexuals, gay people, heterosexual allies and those questioning their sexuality or gender.”… “It’s really important that we provide this space for both gay and straight people to come together,”said Shea. “It’s a scary thing sometimes, when you live in a place where people do go out and hurt people due to their sexuality.”

An article several months later discussed a homophobic hate incident at one of the campus fraternities and how a forum was convened about it.

About 110 students attended the forum, which was co-sponsored by the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity in response to an Oct.6 incident in which beer cans were thrown at a homosexual couple from the fraternity’s porch during its annual “Tacky Party.”



The Patterson Court Judiciary Board convicted SAE on Nov. 8 for not stopping members or guests from throwing beer cans and shouting anti-gay epithets at sophomore Rory Adams and his companion. The house was acquitted on two other charges. PCC President and SAE member Matt Arbuckle said the forum was aimed at bringing about good from the incident. Shea believes it succeeded.​

Davidson’s yearbook “Quips and Cranks” has several photos of Shea to visually confirm she’s the same person as Del Harvey. The best photo is in the 2002 edition:

Post-college, there’s a brief blurb about Shea in a Lambda Legal pamphlet:

When she joined Time Out Youth, an LGBTQ youth organization in Charlotte, North Carolina, Alison Shea was looking for a place where she could be herself without being judged or rejected.​

Long story short — John/Brianna Flynt has a nepotistic and ideological connection with the head of Twitter security via his good friend Glenn, and the head of Twitter security is a long-time LGBTQ activist sympathetic to John’s claims of harassment as transgender and as a “woman”. They both certainly have (understandably) negative experiences with frat dudebro culture dating back to their respective college years and they both attended college at around the same time (early 2000s), despite John being somewhat older than Alison.

In short, via Brianna/John’s connection to Harvey/Shea through Glenn, he has the ear of a very powerful ally who went through similar issues as Flynt/Wu during a similar period of their lives, so Brianna/John can sleep at night knowing Twitter is a “safe space” against anything that might be the slightest bit unpleasant, even if it’s legal to say or not even in violation of Twitter policy.

As a result of this primary backchannel, this is why Wu will commonly posts tweets with screencaps of all the abuse reports he files, secure in the knowledge his crony in high places will shove everything else to the bottom of the pile and silence any heretic he deems worthy of the stake.

Like so:

http://tweetsave.com/spacekatgal/status/720031842519379970

And, of course, Wu/Flynt is not in the slightest bit subtle about this because Twitter is friendly ground and will expel anyone who offends its progressive clique, of which Wu, despite being a pariah to some it’s higher profile members, still has more than enough clout via the previously established connections to essentially have paid thugs to break knees of anyone they wish on Twitter and basically gets away with it at will.

The conclusion to this example is that this is not unique. Social Justice Warriors of a similar ilk love doing the same all over the internet and ideally in real life to any institution they wish to pervert to their own ends, first by securing cooperation of allies from the inside via “backchanneling”, working to get the institution staffed mostly or entirely by ideological allies, then, once their hegemony is assured, they drop any pretense and openly flaunt their power to silence dissent against them as they destroy any access of whatever institution they have corrupted to anyone but their allies and those who meekly submit to how they wish public discourse to be conducted.

And the point is this: It’s corruption, pure and simple, and the best way to prevent it is to discover it early and make it impossible for them to keep quiet about it, then to make sure there are too many voices calling out such corruption so that it never has a chance to take root, and to serve as a warning to then untainted institutions so such corruption does not spread.