A Public Apology From WildGoose

After receiving a relentless barrage of disgusted comments, tweets, and messages regarding my most recent article entitled CultOfVivian Exploits Teenage Girl’s Suicide for Attention, I’ve done some deep soul-searching and I’ve concluded that a public apology is in order.

I’ve been thoroughly reprimanded by the Editor-in-Chief and the rest of the Ralph Retort team for not only besmirching the publication’s name, but also for producing content inconsistent with the quality of work expected from Ralph Retort writers. With this article, I hope to make amends to both the Ralph Retort staff and its readership. There’s absolutely no excuse or justification for the way the last article was written.

Singling out Nicole Sund (aka CultOfVivian) for “grief tourism” or “grave-standing” in the wake of Lillian Feng’s tragic death was wrong, ignorant, and displayed a complete disregard for the feelings of others. There’s no justifiable reason behind excluding people such as Liana Kerzner, Oliver Campbell, and Paolo Munoz from my last piece.

After Feng’s bereaved boyfriend specifically requested privacy, Nikki (aka Nicole Sund aka CultOfVivian) took it upon herself to break the news of Feng’s passing to everyone on Twitter using the #GamerGate and #NotYourShield hashtags. Rather than respecting Ashton’s wishes, Nicole used the opportunity to boost her social capital by linking Feng’s suicide to a hashtag activist movement, which ironically fits the Social Justice “Gamers Are Dead” narrative. When confronted and criticized about her self-serving breach of privacy, Nicole denied that she had broke the news for her own gain and claimed that the only reason she used the hashtag was because she couldn’t possibly ask everyone individually if they knew Feng. The problem with Nikki’s claim is that she could have just as easily asked Ashton to pass the news along to people Feng knew through GamerGate. She knew this. She’s just playing dumb.

The only face-to-face meeting Nicole ever had with Feng was at a GamerGate meet-up where her and several others took a group photo together. Nikki posted this picture along with the hashtag in order to make it seem as if they had a close relationship with each other–when in reality–they had only met once in real life and just barely “knew” each other through the hashtag.

Nicole’s reaction to criticism of her actions was not only to attack those who criticized her, but to deflect blame on to them as well. Her go-to rebuttal is to point out that Ralph Retort has a Patreon link on the same page as the article that was critical of her; so in her mind, that negates the entire premise of the critique and suggests that The Ralph Retort is exploiting her death. Ultimately, Nicole was the one who let the genie out of the bottle and it’s disingenuous of her to blame the politicization of Feng’s death on her critics. CultOfVivian is using a common psychological manipulation tactic (most notably employed by feminists) called “Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender.”

Oliver Campbell, a familiar face to most of those surrounding GamerGate, is a charismatic con-artist who uses pseudo-intellectual rhetoric to pull the wool over his followers’ eyes. His claim to fame in GamerGate was his esoteric knowledge of an FBI investigation into fake bomb threats, which ended up being a completely bogus story. Oliver’s phoniness doesn’t end there, of course.

Oliver, much like Nicole, has taken the opportunity to virtue signal and when confronted about this, he shifts the blame onto those who criticize his indiscretion. Remember that DARVO tactic?

Liana Kerzner’s foray into the Suicide Social Capital Venture involved an offer of a “cosplay tribute” to Feng’s boyfriend. Surely, this is the most appropriate time to be stripping and catching Feng’s boyfriend on the rebound, Liana.

Once again, we have another reversal of victim and offender below:

 

Liana’s response to criticism is blocking, reporting, and censorship:

 

Look who else decided to show up and start begging for shekels and validation: Our old friend, Paolo Munoz (@GameDiviner). Rather than just donating to a suicide prevention charity and/or encouraging others to do so, Paolo makes it his divine mission from God to plaster his name, face, and the GamerGate tag on his own charity page following Feng’s suicide.

Remember, this is the same delusional nutjob who famously pronounced, “I…AM…GAMERGATE!”

A recent addition to our list of grief tourists is a man who goes by the name of Robert Kingett. This guy is a one man freak show who–after stuttering like an assburgers victim while getting interrupted by a Stephen Hawking voice for eight minutes–eventually gets around to telling me to fuck myself…but not before pimping out his Patreon account, of course (not even fucking kidding you).

The real story here isn’t the people begging for Patreon money, but rather, it’s the reaction to the last article I posted. KotakuInAction made an entire thread discussing whether or not to censor The Ralph Retort because of my article; and if this isn’t a red flag to GamerGate, I’m not sure what is. You would think that people proclaiming their support for free speech wouldn’t be so quick to squelch it when being criticized, but apparently that’s just not the case.

GamerGate has been co-opted by professional victims and social justice warriors; and they wouldn’t have reached their level of clout without a fawning gaggle of thirsty yes-men, cowards, and hypocrites. If you want them to go away and quit intruding upon our freedoms, confront and engage their enablers. These people are being used and they have a right to at least be informed of it. SJWs are incapable of changing their behavior, but we can at least make them go swindle other SJWs, rather than sit here and allow them to feed their cyberbullied damsel-in-distress narrative to the rest of us. The best way to confront an SJW is with their own words. Nothing triggers them more. They’ll call you a stalker, harasser, abuser, criminal, pedophile, fascist, racist, sexist, or whatever demonized word seems to fit their mood on a given day, but if you can see past that as a sign of weakness, it will only work to your benefit.

Social justice imposes weakness on the strong and justice lends strength to the weak. These people are powerless without their lies and if you shine a light on them, they scream and scatter like cockroaches.