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I confess...

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Monday, 3 April 2017, at 9:33 p.m.

In Response To: I confess... (Keene)

I don't think there's anything wrong with Murat pretending that he's two different people. It's amusing, but not wrong. On the other hand, when I see people getting confused and thinking that when "Jack Mack" asks what XGR+ is, he really doesn't know, then I think it's only fair to point out the facts to the respondents so as not to waste their time.

As to why Murat adopts two different persona, only one person (or maybe I should say at most one person) knows for sure, but it could be that he perceives that people are prejudiced against "Murat" and so he is trying to get a "fair hearing" for his views by presenting them under a pseudonym. On the face of it, that's a reasonable desire, but what Murat fails to realize is that his views are so bizarre and idiosyncratic that his attempt to operate under a pseudonym is totally transparent and futile. So this creates a bit of a quandary: Do we try to point out to Murat that his efforts at disguise are comically poor (knowing that he will never accept this), or do we play along and pretend not to see the elephant in the room? I have elected for the former option, but it has the side effect of eliciting blustering denials from "Jack Mack" that clutter BGO, so if other BGO readers prefer that I play along and pretend not to know that Jack Mack is Murat, I will acquiesce.

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