Racist insults

November 4, 2001 6:28 PM

Take that, 'effete faggot web-designer towelheads'. Ouch - that hurt. Maybe my partner Achmed can drag himself away from his style sheets for a minute and make me feel better. Is this liver fresh?
posted by obiwanwasabi to etiquette/policy at 6:28 PM (16 comments total)

Like I was just saying--the third paragraph only--and furthermore... Race and racism are difficult topics to discuss with the best of intentions as everyone can agree that so-and-so over there is a perfect example of what racist is but me? Oh never!

And, too, there is this boundary crossing thrill of being the boy to say 'poop' in front of the ladies.

This 9/11 has licensed a lot of purely malicious attacks on the evil others du jour...but that I will expand upon in another context. Suffice it to say that attacks on 'towelheads' or even using such epithets has nothing to do with patriotic anger, aids no one hurt, no soldier but is just what I said--self licensed malice.
posted by y2karl at 7:21 PM on November 4, 2001

Well, it's pretty clear that Charley Daniels is a moron, and StBalbach isn't going to be winning any "Most Enlightened MeFi Member" awards, but what's the deal with quonsar's comment? I can't figure it out.
posted by Doug at 7:48 PM on November 4, 2001

I should just write a filter, if someone mutters "liberal media" in a comment, you might as well trash the thread.
posted by mathowie at 7:52 PM on November 4, 2001

Point of order: I'll second that, mathowie.
posted by gramcracker at 7:55 PM on November 4, 2001

Uh, could you include "liberal asshole" in that filter as well?
posted by kittyloop at 8:26 PM on November 4, 2001

You know, it's reading things like that thread (and this) that remind me how much I fucking hate bigots.
posted by Marquis at 8:53 PM on November 4, 2001

Yeah, well, Marquis, at least BlitzK had a website and even if he isn't Bubba The Love Sponge with his clever pictures, he at least is out front, unlike the average anonymous race baitin' knucklehead around here...
posted by y2karl at 9:09 PM on November 4, 2001

Jeez, remember the good old days--of last week!--when the big controversy was over whether the old timers were going to give MiguelCardoso an atomic or Thermonuclear wedgie?
posted by y2karl at 9:20 PM on November 4, 2001

Hey! I can see the Fnords!
posted by Steven Den Beste at 9:37 PM on November 4, 2001

what's the deal with quonsar's comment? I can't figure it out.

I think it's just a really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really bad joke. Really bad.

Really.
posted by jpoulos at 9:37 PM on November 4, 2001

That whole thread should be wrapped in oily rags and set on fire. Then we should burn the ashes.
posted by solistrato at 11:26 PM on November 4, 2001

Can you filter out any sort of comment that makes an inflamatory statement.
And then admits to trolling using small text.

There seems to be a growing number of those.
posted by mkn at 11:45 PM on November 4, 2001

but some of my best friends are web designers.
they didn't ask to be born that way
posted by quonsar at 5:30 AM on November 5, 2001

What gave it away? The sequins?
posted by Kafkaesque at 9:10 AM on November 5, 2001

Hey! I can see the Fnords!

Shhh!
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:54 PM on November 5, 2001

He's pining for the fnords.
posted by kindall at 11:33 PM on November 5, 2001