Yesterday, I noted some of the nasty transphobia that had shown up in a recent /gg/ thread on 8chan, undercutting somewhat the claims to respectability we’ve been hearing a lot of from GamerGaters recently. Well, 8channers noticed my post, and weren’t exactly pleased about it.
But their responses to my post, well, they didn’t exactly suggest that the transphobia I saw in the earlier thread was some sort of fluke.
Oh, sure, some of the commenters complained, as my critics often do, that I had “quote mined” the earlier thread.
Sitting cheek by jowl next to these comments were comments of a rather different sort. Trigger Warning for threats, transphobia, homophobia, etc.
So, yeah, there’s really no need to posit vast conspiracies sending paid shills to shitpost on 8chan when it’s pretty clear a sizeable portion of their userbase is happy to post crap like this for free.
And there’s no need to mine for quotes like these when there are so many of them just sitting right there on the surface.
And they were singing:
“My, my this here Anakin guy;
Might be Vader someday later,
now he’s just a small fry…”
Sorry, had to. My inner American Pie was murdered by a parody…
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Or their posts went through, and they was expecting us to have a massive change in feels upon reading them, so they assumed we didn’t even though I’m pretty sure someone quoted their longest…
Or they be liar-mc-liarpants.
contrapangloss, LOL! Love that parody!
Singing “This’ll be the day that I die”
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Wasn’t there another troll who was fixated on their comments being in moderation?
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I went back and checked and there are no comments by Mackey that I didn’t see the first time around. It’s just a lot of doubling-down and “why are you all so meeeeean” complaints back there. I see not even a single apology.
Quite a few trolls get hung up about that, or spend time squealing in moderation after they’ve been banned.
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Damn my day job! Making me miss the musical threads >:(
Can you hear the guns, Fernando?
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Oh, PLEASE. I’ve met my share of them as well. And I can honestly say that I’ve met “normal” people who were scarier. If I am afraid around a schizophrenic, I’m not afraid OF them, but FOR them, because the person they are most likely to harm is themselves. I’ve never been harmed by one, but I’ve seen plenty who were harmed by others. Usually it all starts with prejudice.
And your attitude is not helping. Now lay off your willful obtuseness and smarten up.
Stats suggest that schizophrenic people in particular are at an elevated risk of being victims of violence, rather than of being violent towards other people. You know, if that was at all relevant to this thread.
Did you write the book of love, and do you have faith in God above?
(uh oh, I hope that doesn’t attract more trolls)
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Can music save your mortal soul?
Helter skelter in summer swelter
the birds flew off with the fall out shelter
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I wish I was a brakeman on a hurtling, fevered train.
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Anecdotal evidence agrees, at least in my experience.
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You spin me right round baby right round like a record baby
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Eight miles high and falling faaaaaaaaast
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I met my love by the gasworks wall
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… and a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square!
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I’m not sure which is worse, the gators who think we care or the trolls who use smileys all the fucking time. G’night, and have fun!
Niters!
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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia#Violence
All this attacking here, it is not nice. However, if you know someone well
and they unexpectedly get an episode, this can scare the shit out of you.
Now, think of me as you like, I will not be around here any more. Bye!