So my last post, which linked to the CNN pundit report card on the Palin nod, was reciprocally linked to from CNN.com, prompting dozens of commenters to hop on over to my site for "dialogue."
Exciting, right? It was great to see insane numbers of people reading, compared to what I'm used to, and once I sorted out the CNN thing and figured out why there were McCain folks posting (which really, I was mostly just confused about... no one I know of who reads my blog is pro-McCain), I enjoyed watching the back and forth, taking it all with a heavy grain of salt.
Until about 90 minutes ago. Apparently the racists only come out at night, and they post anonymously. It makes sense - a coward always wants to hide. But boy, can they post. I decided to disable comments, which is a shame, because a lot of people had interesting things to say. I suppose I could have moderated, but just reading this stuff was giving me a stomachache.
I was a little upset early on when people started attacking me for no reason, but deep down I knew that didn't matter. A lot of stereotypes were thrown around, in ways that I felt were inappropriate. Really the line was crossed when the "N" word came out. Then a commenter made racist remarks about Obama's children.
Really? His children?
I'm not sure what to say right now. I think all I can offer is the knowledge that people who traffic in hate are doing nothing more than living in fear.
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