For the hundredth time, the Tumblr page put already public information on display for people who use Tumblr to see. It would be like you, writing an article on this thread and taking my already public information (my name, location, and school) and putting it on your blog along with links to my posts. It simply gives the info, that I am posting in public, a wider audience.
But I would
never take your already public information and put it on my blog. The only reason to share that information with others would be to say in effect,
"Can you believe this guy? Somebody should call him out. I won't, but somebody should."
It wasn't necessary to provide anything other than the name of those who published than their racist rants on Twitter and Facebook. Shaking one's head in outraged disgust is one thing. Hanging someone's ass out in cyberspace is quite another.
Earlier this year, I wrote a negative review of a smooth jazz artist. The musician disliked my review as much as I disliked his album. He reposted the review on his Facebook page, whined to his "friends" how mean I was to him and provided a link to my personal blog.
Next thing I know, I've got 20 to 30 replied on my blog from his buddies and they're ripping me from my ass to my appetite. At first I appreciated the increased site visits, but then I got tired of responding to angry fans and let it run its course.
I get it that you want to slam those who slammed Obama and by extension all the other "darkies and niggers" they spewed venom at. But barring all those posters becoming Absolute Write members or jacking into their Twitter and Facebook feeds, how can you call these morons out?
thebloodfiend said:
If there's anything to take qualms with, it's what Jezebel did not "Hellothereracists."And if they were that concerned about their futures, they would've been smarter. The Tumblr page doesn't really do anything they didn't do. The tweets would've still been there, unless they decided to delete them later, which they've now done, thanks to the Tumblr page. They still would've been searchable by employers and college admission folks. Does the Tumblr page misrepresent them in any kind of way? Does it twist their words or make them seem more hateful than they really are? No. It simply reposts exactly what they said with the info they already provided.
Yes, but those are simply spontaneous outbursts captured eternally by the permanence of the Internet where everything is written in ink, not pencil. It's hard to scrub away the marks we leave in our posts. Some prospective employers want to be able to pick up the bread crumbs you leave on the web. They shouldn't have that right, but some are asserting they do.
Is there
nothing you have ever said, bloodfiend you would prefer a prospective not know about?
thebloodfiend said:
To address your quote -- how many of us here knew being a racist douche-bag wasn't cool and fun when we were six? All of us? That's kind of what I thought. If this was not knowing "I'm colorblind" is ridiculous, I'd agree. I know people in their twenties who don't understand what being "colorblind" means. This is something as simple as not calling people niggers and threatening to hang them. A concept they should understand at their age, as quite a few of them are already out of high school and all of them passed the first grade.
I'm sure most of these individuals in question do understand calling people "niggers" and threatening to hang them or watch them burn alive are aware of how repulsive that sounds to many people, but that might be exactly the effect they were going for and why they are saying it.
I don't believe in the concept of colorblindness. Even a blind man can be a bigot. Colorblindness is a goal, not a destination.
thebloodfiend said:
I will apologize for mischaracterizing the intent of the OP. But, really, we all know this wouldn't be a problem if these idiots hadn't tweeted their tweets to begin with. This is their fault. No one else can take the blame for their idiocy. I don't see any reason to not judge them. They're old enough to hang out with me -- they're my peers. If anyone here has any right to judge them, it's me. I hang out with people their age every single day.
But that doesn't give you the right to judge them. You can decide, "Okay, these assholes are a bunch of racist fucktards and I wouldn't waste my piss on them if they were on fire." You can choose to believe they are hopeless bigots and some of them are.
Others are simply products of their environment. Maybe this is how their parents raised them. Who can say with any certainty?
I'm far older than you or these posters are, but I'm pretty sure one thing that hasn't changed among young people is their need either to conform to the dominant paradigm or to rebel against it in ways that may be considered socially unacceptable by polite society.
Like sharing all your creepy racist thoughts with the rest of the world. Only now, instead of having to spray paint it on a wall, you can accomplish the same thing by going to a social media site and letting fly.
I would hate to be permanently judged by the stupid shit I thought and said when I was in my teens and 20's. Sometimes I regret the stupid shit I say in my 50's.
My patience is a finite thing, but I can find enough in me to express a little for these poor, dumb, disappointed bastards.