Comments on: People With Thin Skins Should Not Blog

By: Dr. BLT, The Song Blogger

Dr. BLT, The Song Blogger — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 23:47:05 +0000

“I mean to be hateful.”

And I hate to be mean. That’s what makes each of us unique, guss.

By: guss

guss — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:38:27 +0000

I mean to be hateful.

By: yagi

yagi — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 15:41:26 +0000

That is true, you did say hate speech and not hate crime. Fair enough.

By: Dr. BLT, The Song Blogger

Dr. BLT, The Song Blogger — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 14:27:54 +0000

Yagi, I never used the term “hate crime” to describe the verbal abuse directed towards me. I wouldn’t call it a crime, but it would definately qualify as hate speech.

spencer, can I quote you on that? That’s such a brilliant reply. How long did it take you to come up with that?

By: teh l4m3

teh l4m3 — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 14:07:20 +0000

“Has anyone seen her lately?”

I thought I’d caught a glimpse of her ankles, but then I realized I was in Muir Woods.

By: spencer

spencer — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:01:17 +0000

bigotry also has to do with the way one is treated for their political views, and I have experiences some of it here.

What a load of shit.

Yagi’s got it right.

By: yagi

yagi — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:55:26 +0000

I’ve seen people being physically attacked because of their political views. That qualifies as a crime in my mind. But unkind words exchanged in an anonymous forum = hate crime?

Sadly, No!

By: Mal de mer

Mal de mer — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:41:47 +0000

You could’ve used the words “moist”, “dank” or “loamy” in there somewhere, no?

I mean, when I think of Jonah’s innie, I…*urdle*

…oops. Threw up a bit in my mouth, there.

By: Dr. BLT, The Song Blogger

Dr. BLT, The Song Blogger — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:41:33 +0000

yagi, bigotry also has to do with the way one is treated for their political views, and I have experiences some of it here. If you had been at the receiving end of some of the comments I have received, you’d be tempted to play the victim too. But I don’t wallow in my own victimization, not for too long anyway. I also have found friendly, nice, good people right here at Sadly, No!, so, along with my occasional whining, I must also say thank you to those good friends, ideologically lost, though they may be.

By: Pinko Punko

Pinko Punko — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:27:19 +0000

Let’s get back to Teh’s take on Jonah’s almost certain to be super innie navel. Boys and girls, that is such an innie, it is like The Forbidden World in there. I swear there will be dinosaurs in the fleshe enveloped core and K. Lo. Has anyone seen her lately?

By: The Dark Avenger

The Dark Avenger — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 08:31:36 +0000

So now you have to arrest yourself?

Oy vey!

By: Mal de mer

Mal de mer — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 08:16:06 +0000

Being a meeny-bo-beeny to BLT is hate speech…a hate crime, in fact.

So is responding to him sarcasti…oh, great. Now, I’ve committed a hate crime.

By: yagi

yagi — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 08:00:09 +0000

“as a victim of ridiculous volumes of hate speech”

BLT, that’s laughable on two counts:

1) You, a pseudonym on an electronic bulletin board, are portraying yourself as a victim.
2) Hate speech is at its core bigoted and intended to intimidate a person due to their race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, etc.

People vociferously and even lewdly refuting your political opinions does *not* qualify as hate speech. But go ahead and play the victim if it makes you happy.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 05:59:11 +0000

I think we have to give Deborah a lot of credit. Anyone who can make Danny Okrent (late of the NYT) look like a passable public editor is a miracle worker.

By: Ken Houghton

Ken Houghton — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 05:07:40 +0000

Jay got this one spot on, as the DU’s archive of the WaPo demonstrates.

The only way to view it as a “personal” attack is to forget that describing an incompetent, lying “ombudsman” as incompetent and/or lying isn’t a personal description, it’s a job review.

By: Dr. BLT, The Song Blogger

Dr. BLT, The Song Blogger — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 04:33:12 +0000

As they say, Jay, every rose has its thorn.

By: Jay Brida

Jay Brida — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 04:13:30 +0000

The victim, in the end, comes out smelling like a rose.

Sure. Just ask President Kerry and Senator Cleland.

Anyway, Howell deserved a good 95% of everything she got — and that 95% wasn’t ‘hate speech’, nor even overly excessive, given the immediacy of blogs. It wasn’t as threatening as a normal hour at Dean’s World, nor, sadly, as funny as a hour at Sadly No.

By: larkspur

larkspur — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 04:04:58 +0000

Hey, Jay. I’ll see your Slutskaya and raise you a Smashnova. I’ll let Dementieva clean up afterwards. She’s my favorite.

Frankly, I find a huge, non-moderated, online bloggy pile-on to be unsavory. I can’t stand the heat, so I stay out of those particular kitchens.

Now, I can do this because I’m not a damn newspaper. But it’s astonishing to me that a damn newspaper cannot adjust to this sort of discourse. Of course, it might mean spending a little money and hiring people to monitor the posts properly. It’d be kind of stupid for Howell to wade through the raw postings, but once the initial clean-up of the inane “OMFG eat sh*t and die STOOPID C*NT” stuff gets done, I think it’s central to an omsbudsman’s job description to get in there and deal with it. I hate to see a grown-up, well-paid executive cry.

By: Dr. BLT, The Song Blogger

Dr. BLT, The Song Blogger — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 03:32:39 +0000

In my opinion, as a victim of ridiculous volumes of hate speech, profanity and the like, I would have to say this: Though much of this foul-mouthed billingsgate is intended to discredit the recipient of the verbal abuse, such churlish, junior high school, playground bully rhetoric only discredits the perpetrator. The victim, in the end, comes out smelling like a rose.

By: Jay Brida

Jay Brida — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 01:30:40 +0000

What kind of world does the Washington Post want to live in? Me, I’m very comfortable in a place where I can point out to total strangers that a woman named
Slutskaya just broke a figure skating record.

There was no quote from her manager Pimpsboris to note her feat.