here's to anonymous
I wasn't going to comment about the reservation high school shootings in Minnesota, but then I saw the news story naming a juvenile who's been arrested in connection with the case, based on a law enforcement leak to the AP, and became so disgusted with this invasion of privacy that I couldn't help myself. I then had the poor judgement to look at a yahoo message board about this story, and found it overrun with trolls anonymously posting the most offensive slurs imaginable about Indians. here's a couple where just the title of the message suffices:
MINORITIES COPYING FROM JEWS
and
USA WAS PEACEFUL BEFORE INDIANS CAME
apparently, what many of these trolls are worked up about is that some of the victims of the shooting, teachers perhaps, were caucasian.
this was my post, destined to be drowned out by the clamoring of a playground for trolls:
AP
it's outrageous that a "law enforcement source, on condition of anonymity," would leak the name of a juvenile suspect, and that AP would see fit to publish it. what happened to privacy? why doesn't AP name this public-minded anonymous source, so we can all give him the *gratitude* he deserves?
incidentally, the terms of service for this message board claim that *hateful, or racially, or otherwise objectionable* messages may be removed. i guess yahoo must have a narrow definition of hateful, judging by the messages it's allowing here.
MINORITIES COPYING FROM JEWS
and
USA WAS PEACEFUL BEFORE INDIANS CAME
apparently, what many of these trolls are worked up about is that some of the victims of the shooting, teachers perhaps, were caucasian.
this was my post, destined to be drowned out by the clamoring of a playground for trolls:
AP
it's outrageous that a "law enforcement source, on condition of anonymity," would leak the name of a juvenile suspect, and that AP would see fit to publish it. what happened to privacy? why doesn't AP name this public-minded anonymous source, so we can all give him the *gratitude* he deserves?
incidentally, the terms of service for this message board claim that *hateful, or racially, or otherwise objectionable* messages may be removed. i guess yahoo must have a narrow definition of hateful, judging by the messages it's allowing here.
posted by yitwail at 9:16 AM
4 Comments:
people are so quick to lay blame. It's an easy out for them, so long as they are not the accused. It sucks.
~B
thanx for the comment. it's good to know there's another reader. in case you haven't guessed, i personally know the other reader. her blog's a *hoot*--she'll like that description--although politically & spiritually we're almost at opposite poles.
a few years back, after watching a movie about an incident that took place close to a 100 years ago, i told my professor--the movie was screened in his class--i guess the world's been going to hell in a handbasket for a long time. he got a chuckle out of that. btw, the film was Matewan; catch it if you run cross it some time. but i'm really feeling that the country is going south now, maybe since the presidential re-election, and yitwail will be moving on to guam in a few years; he'll still be livin in the usa, and someplace extremely christian to boot, but in a place where cultural differences are the norm.
no great loss to me that google dropped hate pages; people who want to read em can find them easily enough, and it may keep impressionable young people from reading them, not to mention acting out on some doit yourself ethnic cleansing. i imagine google did it to protect itself from liability, but i'm surprised the ACLU isn't suing them for infringing on freedom of the press, like the time Alan Dershowitz defended the right of neo-nazis to march through Skokie, Illinois.
yes, might have had a reading problem granny. i couldn't figure out why you were writing about female sheep.
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