isms (warning: may be offensive)

Seriously, I warned you.
(I split it into chunks so it can be read easier, I'm too tired for proper formatting.)







So, it's late and I can't sleep, and usually when this happens I read forums or blogs online. Tonight I seemed to have stumbled onto something entirely new, and insanely offensive. I browsed the main forums, nothing really seemed interesting, but then I decided to open the "conversation lounge" section of this forum. It's has slightly more than 30,000 threads and more than 800,000 posts, and a lot of the threads are just the normal things that any forum has, just said in the worst way ever.

The threads are all laced with insane amounts of racism, sexism and anti-gayism. African Americans are referred to as coons and niggers (occasionally the language "softens" and they become coloreds and blacks), Homosexuals are all referred to as fags, and the discussion of women equals them to trashcans with mouths, pussies and assholes to fuck.

Signatures say things like, "If you can see a nigger or a spic from your window, you're too poor," "I hate fags but I love aids," (I'm guessing they missed that day in ealth class when you learn that everyone can contract aids) "all these duechbag exchange students from fucking islam or some country," (no, I didn't change the spelling) and another one likens interracial sex to bestiality, and "guns are needed to protect whites from dangerous minorities."

It's insane, I don’t really understand, how someone can be so hateful, especially to another person based on something like race, gender or sexuality, if it were some kind of personality flaw like stupidity then I'm all for it, but this kind of hate is just stupid, it's hate for something someone can't control.

One guy goes on some diatribe about how it's unfair for this white guy to get in trouble for using what is widely (almost universally) acknowledged as hate speech, the word Nigger, in front of a "black," and then is fired as a result (he was also in a group of people at the time he used the word). Another guy complains about the "Chinks" and "Ocean Chinks" (by which he means Hawaiian) while being quarter Hawaiian himself.

(slightly off topic)---
I've experienced racism before, but it's almost always been more subdued (i.e. shaking the hands of all the white men but not mine or any of the other black men), except for once on the bus a man called the riders as a whole niggers while on his cell phone, and then insulted a specific person seated next to him after being asked by the driver to leave the bus he refused and continued his hate speech and eventually spat in someone's face at which point he was dragged of the bus and beaten very badly, he should have expected it, once they were done I did call an ambulance, he may have been an asshole but he was still a person. On one hand I felt bad for him, 4 on 1 beat down, but on the other hand, he was basically asking for it, people should be held accountable for what they say and realize where they are before they something they will regret, that said I don't condone the violence.---

I'm amazed how casual the racism, sexism and gayism is, and here's the thing it's not even a hatred forum, no affiliations with any hate groups (at least none that they list), the forum is supposed to be a health and fitness forum. It's sad to think that people can be at peace with that level of hatred. I guess they just don't know what they're missing. My thinking that if they all died tomorrow is probably wrong, but the world would be a lot better off.

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Forums are people talking, you can't police every word they say or it'd be stilted and no fun. I've never noticed any signatures of the sort you mention, who do they belong to?
 
Who cares!!
Stay a way from negativity.

If you think children could be taught these bigoted ideas then I suppose you should bring it ti light.

It is the price of freedom. Assholes get to say mean shit.

Try to spend you time reading things that are good for you.
Why get yourself bent over that crap.

Hope you have a great week, Sug
 
UGH! I hate sites like useless junk and those other weird video sites because all of the comments are always something degrading towards minorities, the fairer sex and sexuality in general.

It's true that you can't police the hatred because as long as the world exists, there will be hatred; but sometimes you just wonder how someone can run a public site with hatred slathered across it like so much jelly on a sandwich.

The funny thing is, if there was a website offered for human offenders to get their hate off their chests in a safe judgement free environment, for a nominal fee, I bet none of those ignoramuses would join.
 

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