"Many feminists would love to torture catcallers to death - if they're white."

[nomorenomore08]

An actual quote from one of the lovely right-wing posters on Discussionist. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

[JI7]

1. one of those who views straight white males as the oppressed probably

we see it on wingnut sites all the time.

[nomorenomore08]

2. The same guy said that no one would know who Emmitt Till was if he was white

and that Till's murder had been "used as a stick to beat white men with." And that's not even the worst comment I've seen today.

[JustAnotherGen]

12. Oh dear just

Stay away from that.

[nomorenomore08]

15. I'd like to, but I feel I *have* to say something when it's that egregious.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. Thanks for reminding me why I don't stay there very long when I do stop in

which wasn't very often to start and is less and less as time goes by.

[nomorenomore08]

4. I have 179 posts in the last two weeks, but I think I'm pretty close to being done with DI.

Allowing outright white supremacists to post their dogshit would be the last straw IMO.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. I don't even understand the sentence. Context might help but, the White word

makes it racist even without context =

"Many feminists would love to torture catcallers to death - if they're white."

the hyperbole. the condescension. the snide tone. the offensive/dismissive. the presumption.

it is all there = in that one short phrase.

gotta give 'em credit for that.

the *racist* is just the icing on that cake of crap.

[nomorenomore08]

14. Because I started a thread condemning a post I'd seen earlier, which was essentially defending

the murder of Emmitt Till. The idea being, essentially, that feminists would have no problem with the torture and dismemberment of a 14-year-old "catcaller" if he'd been white. How a person even gets to that level of crazy, I have no idea.

[Anansi1171]

5. Have to admit Disgusting-Us got to me last week!

Was during a flurry of threads with the periodic Discussionist Freakout here on DU. So I went there.

The comment was that the poster was too busy enjoying their white previlege to accede to anothers point (thereby making the point)

If the answer to the discussion is a Yahoo! Comments section, whats the point in having the discussion?

[seabeyond]

6. meh... a whole lot of stupid. nt

[nomorenomore08]

7. It certainly is, to say the least. But that site is starting to, not just irritate me, but actually

creep me out. A few posters seem right out of Stormfront.

P.S. Welcome back!

[ismnotwasm]

8. Wha?

It what way is that even coherent?

Also ick

[nomorenomore08]

9. Even worse, they were implying "liberals" wouldn't have such a problem with Emmitt Till's murder

if we didn't have this supposed racial double standard RE: catcallers. I mean, how the fuck does that even make sense?

[ismnotwasm]

11. It doesn't

Typical racism. I'm really glad I don't go there, the people I like and respect seem to either be baffled by it, angered by it or disgusted. There's a couple cool heads who seem to be enjoying themselves (I'm talking normal DUers)

I do think it serves a purpose-- like lancing a boil.

[eridani]

10. I'd say jail for 30 days regardless of race, creed or color n/t

[geek tragedy]

16. it's pretty much the forums version of the yahoo comments section nt

[AverageJoe90]

17. They're probably just trolling, IMO.

But then again, that doesn't mean that they don't actually believe it, though. What can I say? People are screwed up.

Edit: Though, IMO, what makes this so much worse is that the Discussionist troll in question also dragged Emmett Till into all this. Now that's just fucked up.

[JTFrog]

18. Yea, there are some blatant trolls around. n/t

[nomorenomore08]

19. The two worst racist trolls (who I think were the same guy) at least got banned.

There's one other guy who's more or less openly segregationist/white nationalist, but he's managed to stay just enough under the radar to stick around.