Blatant Racism on Newspaper's Forum

[OneAngryDemocrat]

Rockford, Illinois, Register Star

Please visit my anti-war website, www.shockedandawful.com

[Harriet5555]

1. If you are as left wing as I am, you will be sent romantic dates. No kidding!!

For 15 years I had no romantic dates. Starting in 2000, without any plastic surgery, dozens of men started flirting with me. No kidding. This is what conservatives are doing to us who are left wing = marrying us. No kidding. This is a way to control us. I am so shocked, but what they are doing is real. There is a campaign by right-wing conservatives to date us. Most left wing people are happy for the attention but they never realized it was not coincidence. These encounters to get to first date you were planned.

[Barb in Atl]

2. WTF?... no, don't answer... n/t

[Barb in Atl]

3. Skip forums if you can on newspapers

I learned a long time ago not to look at the comments left by readers. Back when the Williams' sisters were playing in the finals of the grand slams, you wouldn't BELIEVE the tripe that was put on Yahoo and NYTimes. From that, I learned that unless I'm looking to get ticked off, don't bother to read the forums or comments. There's always some angry whatever looking to leave an ugly message about women, people of color, gays, etc.

And the websites all get to say - hey, that's not us. We can't police our forums.

(feelin' too mellow this evening, had to tight up the title)