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“Rage against the Machine” 3

Will Bunch returns from vacation and posts an angry but quite rational reaction to Trayvon Martin’s stalker’s “Get Out of Jail Free” card and, as seems common at Bunch’s place, the comments turn into a cesspool of racism.

What is it about newspaper story comments pages that so attracts racists?

Do, please, read the post and the comments.

See how George Zimmerman’s defenders think.

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3 comments

  1. George Smith

    July 22, 2013 at 2:19 pm

    I suspect that column was linked somewhere else, or a bunch of somewhere elses in the right-wing sphere. And WhiteManistan acts in gang unity. Everyone else does not, largely. That’s a distinguishing feature between them and everyone else and it’s why, as a minority political power, it can still have really outsize influence.

     
  2. Frank

    July 22, 2013 at 2:27 pm

    I’ve been following Will Bunch for years, even have one of this books.

     

    Though I seldom have the stomach to dip into the comments, this is a common reaction to his writing, and it’s often many of the same screenames repeatedly.

     

    There’s something about being unabashedly liberal in public that brings out the hate.

     
  3. George Smith

    July 22, 2013 at 3:23 pm

    Different mental wiring. Hate-fascists really gin up fast. Net anonymity helps, works on both sides, to be fair. Social networking code, and I include comment spaces as that, reward extreme reaction. I think it’s always been this way, even back in the days of dial-up when you really had to pay for it if you were going outside the area code. Now it’s just  more lubricated. I’m a firm believer in not honoring free speech on your private virtual property now. The opposite side of the coin is now so obvious you don’t need to see it always mixed in with everything else out of a sense of society and fairness. The other side has no compunctions about using it on its enemies, anyway.