Racist hypocrite at American Power

I was alerted to this post at American Power (No link ever) and the name is really misleading, since the owner of that particular blog is more American Whiner than Power.
The blog owner of American Power has decided that his opinion of racism is the only opinion that counts. He has determined that everyone in the blogsphere that believes in protecting our nation by whatever means necessary is a Racist, Donnie has become the self appointed moral policeman of the blogs, he is trying to silence those of differing opinions by using race, he is Barak Hussien Obama’s wet dream. This is my response to your “Article” and again I will not comment or link your 2 cent blog here EVER.

Sunday, August 3, 2008
The Hatred of the Online Crowd

Popular culture has been transformed by new modes of online communications and social networking platforms. From Blogger to MySpace to YouTube, technology provides endless opportunities for people to make friends, share hopes and joys, and perhaps live dangerously.

Today the Internet is much more than esoteric discussion forums. It is a mass medium for defining who we are to ourselves and to others. Teenagers groom their MySpace profiles as intensely as their hair; escapists clock 50-hour weeks in virtual worlds, accumulating gold for their online avatars. Anyone seeking work or love can expect to be Googled. As our emotional investment in the Internet has grown, the stakes for trolling — for provoking strangers online — have risen. Trolling has evolved from ironic solo skit to vicious group hunt.

Don Quotes a NY TIMES article here… I don’t do much quoting of NY times on my blog because that would be very HYPOCRITICAL of me, since I have spent the majority of my bloglife calling the NY times a biased, leftwing liberal rag…Quoting it when it suits me would be wrong don’t you think?

What caught my attention about this story is not the notion of “trolling” but the larger issue of the “hatred of the online crowd,” referred as “malwebolence.”

Much of online communication is pseudonymous, and thus in the absence of fear of consequences we see the proliferation of the most horrendously depraved behavior from what is, essentially, a tech-savvy, un-lumpen web-prowl-etariat.

I really love that part “in the absence of fear of consequences ” I hear him calling all kinds of folks racists, he calls me, Gawfer, Jenn and the readers of our blogs and the entire blog roll of Reject the UN “Racists”, yet he can’t cite ANY time that either of us made a racist remark. We have made opinions, we have fought for free speech, we have made posts that can be called race oriented by race baiters like Donnie but the vast majority of people see them as “Thought provoking” or at least an “Opinion based on experience.”

Personally I would say EVERYTHING I have ever said in a blog or comment section to ANYONES face. Donnie if you called me a racist to my face I would kick your ass… Believe it. There would be a consequence for that action, I would also be more than happy to tell you to your face I AM PROUD TO BE A WHITE MAN IN AMERICA. To your face, in front of your family and in the middle of soul train, It wouldn’t be a problem for me.. I will never say in any way shape or form that I am disgusted by my race, or that I am ashamed to be white because of what my forefathers did because I believe I had nothing to do with it therefore I can not be held accountable for it.

We know the dangers: tragedies like Megan Meier’s MySpace suicide, the mysogynistic death threats to tech-writer Kathy Sierra, or the demonization of conservatives bloggers like Jeff Goldstein.

The intensity of the hatred itself is not new. What’s novel is the unprecedented volume and retrievability, which is accelerated by the liberation of unaccountability.

I haven’t been the subject of a social networking demonization campaign, although last week I was introduced to the term “cobag” by those friendly nihilists at Sadly No! (and I get “fair and balanced” malwebolence from extreme right-wing hate bloggers as well, who allege I’m RINO for speaking out against racist blog rings (as seen, for example, here, here, here, and here).

My wife sometimes worries about my safety, as I don’t blog pseudonymously.

Yeah? Really Donnie? I think she is right to worry, you are one of the most annoying pieces of shit I have come across since I started blogging, not because you debate, not because you are of a different mindset, it is because you have piss poor reading comprehension skills, you don’t understand that what you are doing is so hypocritical and it borders on liberal views. It is the exact type of liberal thought you so vigorously fight against that is at issue. You feel that a “racist” insulted you, and rather than dealing with the individual you went after everyone else, and you have made yourself a laughing stock of the blogsphere… The test you failed is the test of hypocrisy, the absolute worst test a person can fail. You not only failed you brought all 3 of your readers with you… sad really.

Much of this hatred is defended in terms of the First Amendment, and the legal protections against online demonization aren’t so robust, as the Times indicates:

Citing the times is particularly funny to me.

Does free speech tend to move toward the truth or away from it? When does it evolve into a better collective understanding? When does it collapse into the Babel of trolling, the pointless and eristic game of talking the other guy into crying “uncle”? Is the effort to control what’s said always a form of censorship, or might certain rules be compatible with our notions of free speech…?

Controlling free speech???? Uh Hypocrite much there Donnie?

Why inflict anguish on a helpless stranger? It’s tempting to blame technology, which increases the range of our communications while dehumanizing the recipients … like … Megan Meier presumably wouldn’t happen if the perpetrators had to deliver their messages in person. But while technology reduces the social barriers that keep us from bedeviling strangers, it does not explain the initial trolling impulse. This seems to spring from something ugly — a destructive human urge that many feel but few act upon, the ambient misanthropy that’s a frequent ingredient of art, politics and, most of all, jokes. There’s a lot of hate out there, and a lot to hate as well….

There is a lot to hate out there Donnie, and the reason solutions are not found is because of folks like you, YOU label folks Racist in hopes of stirring folks away from issues, you call EVERYONE racist because you are black, I see no color on the web, you do when it suits you, matter of fact you might have a little bit of Al Sharpton Tendencies. Stay with it asshole it might work for you with some. NOT ME though.

Many trolling practices … violate existing laws against harassment and threats. The difficulty is tracking down the perpetrators. In order to prosecute, investigators must subpoena sites and Internet service providers to learn the original author’s IP address, and from there, his legal identity. Local police departments generally don’t have the means to follow this digital trail, and federal investigators have their hands full with spam, terrorism, fraud and child pornography. But even if we had the resources to aggressively prosecute trolls, would we want to? Are we ready for an Internet where law enforcement keeps watch over every vituperative blog and backbiting comments section, ready to spring at the first hint of violence? Probably not. All vigorous debates shade into trolling at the perimeter; it is next to impossible to excise the trolling without snuffing out the debate.

No one has to track me down Donnie I have nothing to hide, I am happy to give my name number and address to any FBI/ LE agent you care to point to me, I have a few friends that are involved in that aspect of life and it would be very interesting how your libelous slander is treated. Just because YOUR feelings are hurt does not mean I am a racist..

That’s probably as good a description of the issues as we’re going to get (although I’d be interested to read some legal and scholarly articles on this).

Read the entire New York Times article here: “The Trolls Among Us.” I guess the times is his best source when they agree with his views.

Posted by Donald Douglas at 7:58 AM

Donnie loves to link my WHITE in AMERICA post, I guess he thinks that was a racist post, It was simply an answer to the BLACK America TV SHOW that got national coverage I had our neighbors read that, oh they happen to be black, I asked if they were offended, I got an answer “For what?”

So opinions vary and YOURS Donny are no better than anyone else.

I have done some things in my life that I am not proud of, I have paid my price and I have overcome more obstacles than anyone in this medium will ever know. I have also done a lot of good in the past 20 years. I will list a few for you Donnie.
Feeding the homeless (Every month), Sheltering Iraq war VET’S (3 of them have lived with me over the past year for some period of time), Providing food, water and aid to hurricane Katrina victims in NOLA (3 weeks after the storm), Traveling to DC for the Gathering of Eagles 1 (to protect the Vietnam Memorial from liberal assholes)….Oh and currently twice a month we deliver clothes to some shelters in our area when donations come in…. Oh and Donnie, I’ll have you know a lot of the aid, help, supplies and work I did was for Americans.
I really never noticed what color they are, maybe I need to go back and look at the pictures again…

Donny, are you listening? Do you do anything but whine like a little bitch when you don’t get your way? Are you the type of man that sits down writes, complains and points the finger at everyone but himself? Surely you wouldn’t be that lame right?

I don’t give a damn about you or your blog, I couldnt give a shit less about YOU, but I am not linking to all the “RINO” writing you do as an example of liberal thinking, nor am I linking to your readers.. You are a HYPOCRITE DON, the worst kind.

Donnie sees race in everything, the only color I see is YELLOW and its color of the stripe running down ol Donnies back.