Above is a typical sample of what’s been filling my inbox, all day every day. The emailers first ask me for reasoned dialogue—then, if I respond, they hit me with this stuff. I’m …
Apparently we get a shout-out? Sharing this brings me no joy, and I am sorry for inflicting it upon you.
I don’t think anyone here would be the sort to do that. I think we have at least an implicit kind of “prime directive” against engaging at all and also our mods have done what feels like a good job keeping us free of rabid Nazis and their sympathizers. Like, I’m not going to claim it’s impossible and I fully believe that someone somewhere sent him some truly vile shit as a result of this whole affair, but I would be legitimately shocked if it was any of our regulars.
Yeah same. According to Scott it was a ‘Peter fan’, so doubt it was somebody from here.
E: Somebody claiming to be the cartoon person posted on Peters blog, and it was an weird rant from somebody either a fool, or just making stuff up. Seems to also pretend they didn’t know it was anti-Semitic because they just wanted to mock stereotypical orthodox Jews (??). Fuck that guy.
I don’t think anyone here would be the sort to do that. I think we have at least an implicit kind of “prime directive” against engaging at all and also our mods have done what feels like a good job keeping us free of rabid Nazis and their sympathizers. Like, I’m not going to claim it’s impossible and I fully believe that someone somewhere sent him some truly vile shit as a result of this whole affair, but I would be legitimately shocked if it was any of our regulars.
Yeah same. According to Scott it was a ‘Peter fan’, so doubt it was somebody from here.
E: Somebody claiming to be the cartoon person posted on Peters blog, and it was an weird rant from somebody either a fool, or just making stuff up. Seems to also pretend they didn’t know it was anti-Semitic because they just wanted to mock stereotypical orthodox Jews (??). Fuck that guy.
missed sneer opportunity from Scott: instead of “peter fan,” could have done “peter-phile”. Lurk moar, scott