Playing this card on the Discussionist and you'll never lose...

[MrScorpio]

[pinboy3niner]

1. Are you wading into that shit?

Good luck! I hope they have good board moderation.

[MrScorpio]

2. I know that it seems strange that I'm posting there...

But, trust me, no matter how much disgusting it is the shit that they post, their game is really weak.

[joshcryer]

4. The jury is a good system.

But it fails hard when the other side has control... seen way too much garbage be left.

[pinboy3niner]

5. I hear ya, josh

For Scorp, I was referring specifically to the Ferguson discussions there. I know he's a regular on Discussionist and loves to play--and he's very good at it. But I don't know how he manages to to take all the ugly stuff that must be coming up there now.

I've looked over there a few times, and while it might be fun to play I've got my hands full just keeping up with DU!

But seriously, considering the two sites, I just feel the time I spend here is more productive for me.

[joshcryer]

7. Same here.

Every time I go there I get called for jury duty, doesn't matter how long I've been away, probably because of so much crap being alerted on and being left and the jury pool being taxed, etc...

Scorp is my hero though and scheming_daemons too, I think they're the only high profile DUers I recognize over there laying down the smackdown.

[MrScorpio]

8. It's easy because, A. I don't take it personal…

And B. I know that they have no idea what they're talking about.

To me, they're harmless and they pretty much loath dealing with me.

I know them better than they know themselves.

[Boudica the Lyoness]

37. How on earth could you consider your time more productive here?

It's like preaching to the choir. Speaking of choirs, here if you are not all singing the same tune you get ganged up on and ousted.

[joshcryer]

3. Can't believe you put up with them Scorpy.

But good on you for trying, man. I signed up there but can't stand to read it.

[MrScorpio]

6. The truth is that that I have never, in my entire life, met people like that before

They represent an entire segment of this country, that I know actually exists, but I have never experienced. A good many of these people are ruralized northerners who rarely interact with people unlike themselves. They feel threatened by different cultures and ethnicities, however they think that their prejudices and stereotypes can accurately explain people whom they know nothing about.

I spent a good part of my life living down south, and my entire time there I never met one white southerner who seemed upset to be reminded that this country has more than just white people in it.

They're afraid, ignorant and resentful and they're politically involved. These are the fact kind of people that I need to know more about.

The great thing about them is that they love to blab. It's not that hard at all to get them to admit how fucked up they are. It's just that they're the last people to ever see it.

[joshcryer]

11. I'm sorry you had to see that Scorpio.

I come from a background where it's fairly common (family of racists, brought up and lived down south, etc). So it really doesn't surprise me. But I can't put up with it because it gets me so emotional and I'd just get hides. My few posts over there have been quite difficult to keep a calm tone and not tell them off (not using my name there, glad I didn't choose to do that, want no association with that place).

The sad thing about southerners, they hide it in public, but my mom, she posts anonymously on Yahoo! and has been banned several times. I myself probably have latent ideas but I've suppressed them 100%, it's hard to grow up in that atmosphere and realize just how shitty your background is. The last time and this is the first time I've ever told anyone, but the last time, almost two decades ago, when I was still a kid practically, I called a black guy something stupid and I thought it was normal to say that and he called me out. "Boy." That was when I realized that I was influenced by the racism in my family and ignorant of it.

And that's why I have had on occasion bashed southerners, I don't mean to be mean to them or stereotype, but I lived there, and I know the culture, and it's all sort of sly how the racism happens. Only an ignorant kid who has no fucking clue would say the stuff in private in public to some stranger, etc. Otherwise it's hidden.

The only good thing about Discussionist and basically internet anonymity is that we get to see what our society is really like. People say the shit they'd normally say in private, publicly, and we can see where their tendencies are.

Best wishes scorp and like I said to pinboy, you are my discussionist hero, I hope you give yourself a break every now and again, though, toxic stuff will get to you eventually.

[MrScorpio]

12. Well, I am taking a break this week.

This coming weekend I'm going to a family reunion and I really won't give a fuck what my racist friends are up to.

I'm gonna recharge and jump back in when I'm good and ready.

I'm sure that they're gonna miss me too.

[pinboy3niner]

13. I'm glad you'll at least have that respite

Have a blast!

[BainsBane]

18. I didn't think it was possible to be banned from Yahoo

Wow. I can't imagine what your mom posted to earn that.

What you say about the internet bringing to light what has been hidden, I think that's true, but there is another dimension to it. They get reinforcement for their bigoted views, which only fuels them and influences others. I think that is in part why there has been such a growth of MRA ideology.

I find myself wondering what percentage of the population thinks that way. Is it a minority, a majority? How do we know?

[joshcryer]

40. I think it was a series of postings.

What she said was actually quite tame but I guess the red flags add up over time and once you hit a threshold you get banned.

My mom thinks it's funny. Mind you she's a nice person openly to people but her private opinions are quite, shall we say, different.

[JI7]

9. also blame al sharpton and jesse jackson

[MrScorpio]

10. Oh yeah, they love that one.

Shoot, I just may bring that up just to piss them off.

[steve2470]

14. Keep up the good work, MrScorpio ! nt

[Skittles]

15. you got guts, wading in that racist cesspool

yes INDEED

[HughBeaumont]

16. A: "A Good Start."

Q: "What do Dunning-Krugertarians secretly (and some, not so secretly) call Ferguson's police action against a non-white unarmed citizen?"

[BainsBane]

17. What a truly repulsive collection of human beings

I vacillate between fury and feeling sick to my stomach when I have a look at their posts. Little wonder cops get away with killing unarmed black males when people think that way.

[Scuba]

19. You're a better man than I, MrScorpio, to still be hammering the asshats on Discussionist.

[MrScorpio]

22. AS long as I'm still having fun, I'm all good. nt

[Heidi]

20. Careful, MrScorpio,

lest you be accused of "race baiting." I just saw that accusation in another thread. It appears we have a member who is tired of hearing that we white people can take a more active role in the fight against racism.

How about stop with the race baiting
White people this & white people that..... all it does is divide us

[MrScorpio]

21. When have you ever known me to be careful with anyone who came after me?

The truth is that I love that shit.

Besides, if I can handle myself amongst that gaggle of right wing bigots on the Discussionist, anything that I'm up against here will be a piece of pie.

[Heidi]

23. Go, go, go, MrS!

I'm right here with you.



ETA: I said "careful" in jest. I know you can handle yourself (and trolls) just fine.

[Boom Sound 416]

24. And this OP not racist because?

[KittyWampus]

26. it's an editorial cartoon highlighting racist tropes that get repeated in pretty much any situation

where a black person is victimized and yet made to look like the criminal.

[MrScorpio]

28. Define "racist" nt

[gollygee]

29. Because it isn't.

That was easy.

[Ikonoklast]

32. From someone that uses many of those excuses here, that is downright funny.

[Boom Sound 416]

36. those would be which?

[DisgustipatedinCA]

34. That's G-22. I think you're supposed to yell Bingo! now.

[KittyWampus]

25. -remark about weaves-

[ecstatic]

27. lol. I haven't seen that one used yet.

At least not on DU. Everything else? Yes.

[gollygee]

30. I think I remember

once a few years ago in a thread about food stamps there was a comment about weaves.

Something about, "If they can afford fancy manicures and weaves, they don't need food stamps."

[butterfly77]

31. Kick,kick,kicked&Recommended!

Anything to stop the conversation or anything else.

[NuclearDem]

33. Add Breitbart to the Fox News square.

I'm just backing away from that nonsense for now. I already ate a hide telling off someone.

[MrScorpio]

35. I just called one of them an illiterate moron the other day that they couldn't do anything about it

It's all in the technique.

[NRaleighLiberal]

38. I dip my toe in the water there now and then....and feel like

I need a long hot disinfecting shower afterward. Lots of what is posted there is very cave-like - probably because they are cavers.

[0rganism]

39. Discussionist? hell, i think i could have multiple bingos reading DU by now (n/t)

[Gothmog]

41. That is great