Sometimes I feel like they’re how Obi Wan Kenobi described Mos Eisley in Star Wars: “you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.”
The St. Louis Post Dispatch published a story online called “7 Places to Smooch in Public,” containing a photo of a white woman kissing a black man. In response, the comments are almost universally racist, including one person who is all for tolerance and diversity, as long as he or she doesn’t have to see it.
A sampling:
This doesn’t surprise me at all. Libs take every opportunity they can to shove miscegnation in our faces. Now that TV has to show blacks in every commercial, notice that they are always posed beside a blonde woman. Not a brunette, a blonde. Its done for shock value. Sickening that a once proud newspaper would resort ot this. Joe Pulitzer is turning over in his grave in shame.
Well the wonderful PD will be out of business in no time using putrid photos like this. The sooner the better and good riddance.
If that girl lost some weight,she could probably find a white boyfriend, assuming anyone would still be interested. Highly unlikely but possible.
Acceptance and diversity are fine as long as you don’t choke people with it, this is where I have a problem. PD strikes again.
At least on the Political Fix, comments are moderated to remove anything blatantly racist or otherwise offensive.
Thanks for making comments available here. I’m sorry to hear that you think the solution is to squelch discussion, rather than participate in it on our site.
Most of the comments on STLtoday are quite interesting. Without question, there are some that are distasteful. On this particular story, we deleted a number of comments that we thought were outside the bounds. We have also closed discussion on that story, and moved the debate to our blog, A Conversation about Race (http://www.stltoday.com/race).
Our view is that it is better to entertain the discussion and, hard as it is, give light to attitudes such as this. I would rather know it’s there and be able to address it than pretend it doesn’t exist.
The Political Fix is moderated just like our other stories — after the fact. We also make it clear that we welcome and encourage input from readers if they see something that violates our guidelines.
I hope you’ll take as sincere our desire to maintain a candid, but safe place for discussion — and participate.
— Kurt Greenbaum, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
And some things do not merit debate or discussion. Racism, sexism, etc. Since I just celebrated Passover last night. Let me do the whole Jewish Mother thing and relate a little anecdote. I believe it was Elie Wiesel, but I can not locate the source, so I qualify it with an “I believe it was”…
Some years ago a talk radio host wanted to have a debate between Mr. Wiesel and a holocaust denier who had recently published a book denying the genocide of 6 million European Jews. Mr. Wiesel (iirc) graciously declined, saying one can not “debate” mental illness.
There are meritorious arguments, which merit discussion. Then there are meritricious arguments, which do not.