How crowdfunding helps professional victimizers profit

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Here's the fashionable anti-feminist narrative: any woman who complains about mistreatment is a “professional victim" doing it only to promote herself. Speaking out against harassment, in this view, is evidence of an ulterior motive... These women—and it is almost always women—are accused of inciting this mistreatment in order to profit from decrying it. Though these accusations are transparently unfair and untrue, the trolls using them to attack vulnerable people are nothing new. What is new is the cottage industry of professional victimizers, using crowdfunding tools to capitalize on their infamy and devote even more time to harassment... One of the highest-profile examples is atheist and anti-feminist video blogger Phil “thunderf00t” Mason, formerly of Freethought Blogs.

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