My first step into censorship
Nov 19, 2002 Feminism/Politics
I just got a nasty comment on one of my entries so I deleted it (gleefully) and then banned the IP address. I won’t link to his site here but it doesn’t look like he gets any comments on it so maybe he was trying to drum up traffic. He did link to my site on his own and reposted his nasty comment there. It wasn’t what you’d call an attempt at civilized debate. Here’s a portion of his comment.
Whilst you continue to be a racist and bigot, you deserve your guilt. You even deserve your self-loathing. You ARE utterly detestable and the damage you inflict on race relations is serious. It will take years for the damage wrought by race obsessed feminists like you to be reversed. Luckily that process is well underway.You know well that white Europeans and North Americans are amongst the most non-racist and racially tolerant people on earth. Unique amongst humanity for abolishing slavery, fighting for and achieving the equality of all men and women and maintaining the most open, free and tolerant civilisation on earth. Celebrate that fact and take pride in the achievements of this incredible culture.
Once you realise that your real racism is that against whites, I predict you will get well soon. The core of your racism lies in colour before everything else. You apply a standard to yourself (for the purpose of self-flagellation) as a white person that you do not appear to expect of others: namely that they can have the full range of human emotions including racism and xenophobia. You dehumanises and patronises non-whites in the process and it earns your self-designation as a bigot.
So you can see why I hit delete. I wonder how he got here anyway? He must troll liberal blogs looking for arguments.
November 19th, 2002 at 7:45 pm
wow. That’s almost as good as my troll arguing that I’m a sexist and calling me a c*nt to make his/her point. hahahahahahaha.
um. Whatever.
November 19th, 2002 at 8:26 pm
Yikes. Glad you are able to block him!
November 19th, 2002 at 10:27 pm
Censorship? You’re not a government, and you’re not trying to keep him from publishing his views; ergo, this is not censorship. No need for you to pay hosting fees for someone else to spew silliness.
November 19th, 2002 at 11:19 pm
Hey..at least you filled up your quota for attracting psychos for this year. j.k. I’m half-way filled…I think I’m due one more and I’m through for this year. Where do these people come from? Don’t answer that! LOL
November 20th, 2002 at 1:23 am
Wow. The only I can think when I read that is infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters. Don’t you wish “delete” extended futher than comments sometimes?
November 20th, 2002 at 9:51 am
Wait…sorry to go off topic, but MIKE GUNDERLOY?! How very cool!
November 20th, 2002 at 9:53 am
You would be amazed at how these people find you. My troll, who comes back every few months or so to rail at me for daring to criticize Bush, found me by searching for “MLB No. 88.”
Feh. Ban them all, I say.
November 21st, 2002 at 8:43 am
Oh my goodness. Wow. My vote is that he is not for real. It almost sounds like a form letter, kwim? I guess I’m just jaded because my brother likes to troll online just to stir up trouble (he usually only goes to boards where they discuss alien invasions and such, though). If he is for real, what an odd duck.