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Looks like someone else has had enough, and as usual, Jaelithe puts it far better than I did:
The STLtoday.com comment section is hurting St. Louis.
I mean it. I mean it like Jon Stewart meant it when he went on Crossfire and told Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala that they were hurting America.
Any marginally sane, reasonably educated, and moderately moral St. Louisan who has visited STLtoday.com (the online version of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch) and chanced to read the comments below an article more than a time or two will know what I mean.
The STLtoday commenting community is dominated by anti-social pessimists, belligerent misanthropists, racist ignoramuses, provincial neighborhood isolationists, one-note issue pushers who twist every discussion to fit their personal political agendas, and plain old attention-seeking trolls.
As they say, read the rest.
Ironically, one of the people who commented on your other thread — someone who criticized me and the Post-Dispatch for allowing this discussion — made my point better than I did. He said:
That’s exactly right. Stand up to it. Don’t let it pass. Don’t ignore it. In my newsroom, we have an obligation to monitor the discussion and respond as fast as possible to abusive remarks. But closing our ears to thoughts and ideas that make us uncomfortable? How does that help?