July 1, 2012

• Y'all some damn racists up in here

  So, I was reading John's post on Xanga's policy towards racism. He deleted the account "xanga.com/nigger" because someone posted "die niggers" on that page.

  What really got me is that people disagreed with John's decision. Look, blah blah blah free speech is important. But you know there's something wrong with the way you're thinking if you're defending your right to say whatever you want over someone else's safety. Death threats are bad. One time, someone threatened to kill me, and I was really scared, because I wasn't a ninja yet. But how do you defend racism and go like "Oh yeah, it's totally cool, guys."? Here's how - some guy posted anonymously on John's comments some tirade about free speech, but was too much of a bitch to show who he was:

  I can’t agree with what you’re doing. The spirit of web publishing is being compromised for the sake of knee-jerk reactions and foggy emotional thinking. When people blog, they do so with the purpose of expressing their opinions and ideas. A few bloggers will have views that may be unpopular, ignorant, objectionable, ill expressed, whatever, but they’re still expressing their ideas. Deleting their accounts merely silences them, and doesn’t confront them on an equal basis where the merits of their ideas and beliefs can be challenged, laid out, and if stupid, utterly crushed and discredited. You’re sanitizing the content with good intentions but you’re also eliminating information that could be useful in the synthesis of people’s opinions and killing the microcosmic expression Xanga is of the real world. The majority community is obviously intelligent and compassionate enough to know that racism is essentially wrong, as you can see by their responses, and there’s no need to shield them from it. Deleting objectionable racist material doesn’t do any good; it doesn’t make the racist any more a racist and it doesn’t prevent people from not being racist. You’ve basically done a whole lot of nothing and lost a lot of something: the spirit of blogging.

  Yes, yes, the great Spirit of Blogging is frowning down on Xanga from his magical golden clouds of judgement. Too bad John is an atheist and doesn't give a fuck.

  Something I really took away from my whole time on Xanga is that you never never NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER go down to a troll's level and debate them and hope to win because you have the strength of goodness in your ideas. That's what so goddamn stupid about this comment. You don't go toe-to-toe with trolls using idea versus idea and try to win an intellectual victory. You crush them without mercy, obliterate them, squelch their idiocy, stomp their words out, scorch the earth, carpet bomb, nuclear explosionize, death-star-laser-destroy trolls out of existence. You grow a spine like the rest of the vertebrae-based beings in this world, and you ban them the fuck off the whole internet.

  You know why? Because trolls shit on the Spirit of Blogging, and use it as toilet paper to wipe up the ejaculate they exude after finishing one of their trolling sessions, which obviously excite them sexually. There is no way you can put a rational thought on an equal basis with that of a troll. They urinate on compassion and intelligence willingly and maliciously. Make no mistake - this urination they engage in is calculated and pre-meditated, and often, they're attempting to write their names into the soft fluffy snow of all that is good and holy. They eat good ideas for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and brunch, and shit out radioactive toxic evil parasitic snakes that eat nothing but a strict diet of kittens and puppies. Then those snakes shit out yogurt, because yogurt is gross.

  I disagree with racism, but I acknowledge that it exists as a human flaw. Occasionally, I break out the racist jokes myself. Personally, I'm just preparing myself in case Nazis from space attack and capture me. Then I can tell some excellent jokes about minorities and Slavic peoples, and the Space-Nazis will be like "You're alright, kiddo." and let me live.

  However, let me give you two example of typical racism, and the appropriate responses:

  "I think Asians are better at math than white kids."

  Perfectly rational response: "I disagree with your assessment of the continent of Asia's ability to produce individuals who have an inclination towards excelling in the field of numerical cogitation. While there may be generalities that may support your case in a general sense, you have to look at each individual's math skills on a solitary basis."

  If this happens:

  "Yo chinx suck, let's send 'em all to the sun lulz"

  Perfectly rational response: BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN

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