this witchhunt has gone on far enough!
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Reddit troll apologizes for trump CNN gif/all those racist remarks
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this witchhunt has gone on far enough!
TyrantGuardian
Member
Hahaha at people defending this asswanker. Zero sympathy. Don't say vile shit if you're not ready to stand by it when caught, nazi fuckers.
I misread the second post at the top of this page thinking he was agreeing with DJT Jr. I admit when I'm wrong / make mistakes.
Wasn't arguing, just stating my opinion. Got some key information wrong though which changes my opinion on it, but it doesn't look like GAF is going to let me.
You know the saying think before you speak? Replace speak with post. Good life lesson.
shawnbuddy
Member
No. It's just reserving the right to change your mind if you find out you've been lied to.
blatant racism
FBI stats dont lie n-----. You hood rats account for more that 50% of the murder, rape, robbery, and assault in the USA.
I just like dancing when n------ are getting beat down by the cops.
blatant semitism and actual doxxing
anti-muslim
"Starbucks coffee tests positive for fecal bacteria...could it be....MUSLIM IMMIGRANT HIRES?"
anti immigrant:
Why're you concerned so about him and not the people he's been harassing for 18 months?
I'm not defending the things he posts, nobody could. I'm saying "this is ok because I don't like him" is the same line of reasoning people use to justify harm on others.
How we treat and deal with people who disagree with our views is an indicator of who we are.
It's read in my case, lol.
whyamihere
Banned
Yeah, I don't know what the actual big deal is?
bob_arctor
Tough_Smooth
Oh shit now we talking balls! Doxx Blackmail is my new porn name. "And I've got the balls!" is my calling card/motto/jingle/shtick. I'm gonna copyright that shit.
googleplex
Member
Of course they are defending him. Mostly because they are subconsciously scared that the vile racist things THEY'VE posted online will comeback to hunt them too.
Incitement of terrorism is a "disagreement of views"? Or do you want to just go ahead and say he's not a terrorist because he's white.
BrutishMrFish
Member
As is how we treat people who advocate for the killing of our neighbors who have brown skin and the genocide of people in other parts of the world.
catapult37
Member
For me, the baffling thing is that CNN handed Trump and co a load of ammo over nothing. When trump posted that gif, it never occurred to me to wonder where it came from. I didn't really need to know, and thanks to this unforced error, the already-ugly war on the press is reaching a fever pitch.
TyrantGuardian
Member
???
No one is advocating harm coming to this person. If he is physically assaulted or emotionally harrassed due to this, I'm sure most of us would agree it's wrong. However, HE said all of that shit. He actually said it. He did. Turns out there are (and need to be) consequences such as losing your job etc. Tough shit.
Kill Your Masters
Member
Yawn! More preachers from the sidelines is exactly what the world needs right now, huh?
Tell that shit to people who glorify genocide.
Lol you should
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
But this is literally a news organization doing what news organizations do. Do you consider the gawker article about the guy who created the jailbait subreddit to be doxxing? You're genuinely trying to downplay the severity of a grown man saying he'd assault muslims with concealed knives by chocking it up to "people we don't like." Call the fucking spade a spade. It's not just a "person we don't like." It's a guy who's been harassing people for over a year and straight up making threats to minorities.
DontBeThatGuy
Member
Nah, you're just more upset at non-existent blackmail/doxxing than about Trump ONCE AGAIN co-opting the "work" of internet Neo-Nazi's.
Priorities, man.
shawnbuddy
Member
That is definitely the undercurrent on Reddit itself, which is a lot more accepting of the blackmail narrative than here.
Captin Quacker
Member
or if the point had already been refuted and debunked several times in the 30 page thread
so tired of this 'tolerate my intolerance' bullshit
The user's racist remarks are disgusting and indefensible. I hope he feels like an idiot.
CNN's behavior is also both surprising and uniquely dangerous. It's almost identical to the illiberal mob bullying of the far right and far left on social media and other segments of the internet, yet it is being committed by a major media organization.
CNN's behavior is also both surprising and uniquely dangerous. It's almost identical to the illiberal mob bullying of the far right and far left on social media and other segments of the internet, yet it is being committed by a major media organization.
googleplex
Member
Calling for violence against entire groups of people of colors, and spreading neo-nazi propaganda is NOT just a different "View".
You can Fuck right off with that bullshit.
What on Earth does his skin color have to do with literally anything here. Take that garbage narrative somewhere else.
If he planned or committed a terrorist act he's a terrorist regardless of skin color, but just being a racist dick doesn't make you one.
EdibleKnife
Member
Publicizing who this is is simply a consequence of participating in such heinous activities. It is not somehow an inequality. He chose to spend his time creating bigoted, dangerous propaganda, promoting other people's similar propaganda, getting his propaganda growth to the point of being utilized by the leader of the country, &participating in communities that discussed terrorism and violent retribution against disenfranchised groups and minorities. And the response would be making his identity public. How is that somehow an unreasonable fallout for such behavior?
Kill Your Masters
Member
Their clips are always loaded, one bullet more or less means squat. They always have ammo, everything is ammo. For others to not give them ammo is to drop dead. Breathing is ammo to them.
At least this way you lure them out and see with what kind of deplorable shit we have to deal with.
Unmask the fucker. Unmask all the fuckers. I want these people tarred and feathered in the streets. I want people side-eyeing them in church. I want their bosses to fire them for being scum.
It's only a "threat" for CNN to name him because he knows he will be ostracized and humiliated in public.
It's only a "threat" for CNN to name him because he knows he will be ostracized and humiliated in public.
TyrantGuardian
Member
I bet you make the exact same argument every single time an ISIS supporter tweets incitement to violence, right? Need to be balanced and tolerant of others' views, after all!
Look at it this way.
1. Member of the press is bodyslammed by a Republican.
2. 40-year-old child makes GIF of Donald Trump beating up a figure with "CNN" over their face.
3. Donald Trump retweets the wrestling GIF.
4. The news picks up the story and discusses it.
5. CNN investigates and contacts the 40-year-old child, gets details, and intends to report on it.
6. The 40-year-old child issues an apology and deletes his blatantly racist history.
7. CNN chooses not to withhold certain details of their reporting to prevent the 40-year-old child and his family from the aftermath of the incident, assuming that the apology was sincere.
8. CNN states that they are willing to release the information they withheld as they originally intended, should the apology that lead them to their previous decision end up being insincere after all.
2. 40-year-old child makes GIF of Donald Trump beating up a figure with "CNN" over their face.
3. Donald Trump retweets the wrestling GIF.
4. The news picks up the story and discusses it.
5. CNN investigates and contacts the 40-year-old child, gets details, and intends to report on it.
6. The 40-year-old child issues an apology and deletes his blatantly racist history.
7. CNN chooses not to withhold certain details of their reporting to prevent the 40-year-old child and his family from the aftermath of the incident, assuming that the apology was sincere.
8. CNN states that they are willing to release the information they withheld as they originally intended, should the apology that lead them to their previous decision end up being insincere after all.
That's my understanding of the situation; it seems less nefarious this way.
So you didn't read the comments and are just talking out of your ass, then. Unless you don't classify murdering blacks and Muslims on the streets as a terrorist act.
reggieandTFE
Member
But...it's not. And nice job on the both sides do it.
DontBeThatGuy
Member
He would've been publicly outed and shamed immediately for your false equivalency to be even a little bit true.
shawnbuddy
Member
Yeah, that's what gets me.
"Boo hoo. I said violent and racist things thinking I was doing so in secret, but I was wrong because I'm so dumb I share personally identifying information in the same account I use to call bullets "nigger repellant." Oh dearie me, someone found out and I was almost, can you believe it almost, forced to face the consequences of my actions, except they took pity on me and let me slide this time. I'm such a victim!"
Miles Quaritch
Member
Always trying to find the centre ground.
Desperately seeking for it, deluding yourself that if you extend understanding to the virulent racists and bigots that they'll change and become better people.
Cowardly.
So CNN contacting the guy to talk about it ahead of time and making an agreement with him is identical ot the illiiberal mob bullying the far right (who deserve to get shit for their "beliefs") and the far left (???) on social media? Man are you serious?
dynamitejim
Member
Uh, what? They gave him a second chance instead of ruining his life, which is what you'd be crying for if they had reported his name in the first place. They're under no obligation to give him a third chance and said as much.
I don't agree with 'doxxing', for as trite an argument it is I do think there's a slippery slope involved in whose information is subject to reveal. I don't agree but I understand the logic of deciding to rob from someone the anonymity they use as a shield to hide behind whilst spewing threats and other vile shit.
I think there's a further problem with deciding to make the doxxing of a person conditional. Then it feels like a weapon being wielded. It's reinforcing the idea that public doxxing should be off of the table in general, to me.
I think there's a further problem with deciding to make the doxxing of a person conditional. Then it feels like a weapon being wielded. It's reinforcing the idea that public doxxing should be off of the table in general, to me.
By the way, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't t_d upset at the apology earlier on? I imagine that HanAssholeSolo is between a rock and a hard place here. He can't return to the online communities he cared for before, at least connected to the same identify, because even if CNN doesn't do anything then he's a cuck. Like, I don't think they really care about defending one of their own as to show that lamestream media is an evil empire who bullies honest, hard-meming racist white LGBT children.
I understand the jobs and friends bits, but maybe there shouldn't be calls for violent things like "tarring and feathering" people when we decry people for using violent language on the internet.
Massive Duck. C.M.
Banned
He could just become "ChewBlaKKKa" or some shit and keep posting racist shit. Hell, he probably already has.
Why bother changing for the better when half of society has your back and is willing to attack the news for doing its job
shawnbuddy
Member
If how we treat people we disagree with is an indicator of who we are, then I think CNN comes out looking remarkably well here, because they treated this guy far better than he deserved. Other outlets would have doxed him without hesitation. If the shoe was on the other foot and he was an Antifa liberal criticizing Trump his face would be plastered on right wing media 24/7 with not so subtle calls for his assassination.
LMAO
Everything about this post is something else. If I give you my PayPal address, would you send me $100? I promise I will use them to cure cancer.
Spirit of Jazz
Banned
I think the ethics of the scenario are pretty shitty. If the information was released what's the chance he'd receive threats? Is there evidence that people in the alt-right have received threats similar to the ones female internet feminists have been given?
Miles Quaritch
Member
Doxing implies malicious intent. CNN hasn't shown any at any point, the racist cunt asked them not to release his identity and they didn't, but if he chooses to expose himself to make a quick buck or another news organisation releases his identity, CNN will very likely report on it.
Think.
Well I'm sure they face lots of death threats when they fall out with their Alt Right buddies.
Thanks for reading my follow-up posts.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Y'know, it's only hard right wingers who are referring to the racist cunt as a kid.
If i might offer some advice, adiet of right wing bullshit isn't good for you.