A double’s distortion of one’s ideas hurts more than identity theft does

Evidence

There is the paradox of literary brand protection exactly. Do nothing, and you lose all control. Try for control, and you concede to being a two-bit shill: some hawk books, some hawk toilets, it’s all the same hustle. Real Roth does not sue, opting instead for a wild journey impersonating his impersonator through the West Bank and beyond. This all felt extremely familiar. But not as familiar as Roth’s sense that his imposter had taken his lifetime of words and ideas and turned them into a parody of themselves. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 464

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels Klein’s central grievance: Naomi Wolf taking Klein’s language and positions and warping them into far-right anti-vax/Mirror World parody—the heart of the reader’s mission.