dreadilitrocon's blog: ".. vindictive"

after the parties I was a bit bored over the weekend and there was not much going on at my usual hangouts so I ventured out into the wild. And by wild I mean internet sites I am not familiar with. I was amazed, shocked and mostly disappointed at what the world out there is still like. I tend to stick to sites where rational thought is the order of the day but I occasionally wander into a religious or if I am really in the mood for insanity, a creationist site. I know what to expect there and I am rarely disappointed. Last evening, I went by ABC News to see what kind of comments were being made about the article that inspired my little rant about the Mormon cult yesterday and what I found was disturbing. A few of the comments were supportive of gays, a few supported the LDS point of view, but most were thinly veiled hate speech using religion to justify their Bronze age attitudes. I answered a few of them and to be fair my comments were upvoted rather quickly. Then I made the mistake of disagreeing with one of the regular posters there and when he responded with gibberish I pointed out that he was misrepresenting what I said and that he was wrong. A few minutes later my post was removed and labeled offensive. On the sites where I post, hate is labeled offensive, critical thinking is required and unsupported claims will get you ridiculed and laughed at. At ABC News, pointing out that saying that your decisions are guided by the bible is another way of saying that you only take slaves from other tribes, or that if you say praise God and I reply with "Amen, Hail Zeus" because you forgot to specify which God, these things will get you banned. What doesn't get you banned? Loving statements like "These homosexuals have no right to marry and they need to die before Satan destroys our country because of homosexuals getting married." Every statement that I made was neutral (if maybe a tad sarcastic) or loudly decrying bigotry and preaching tolerance. To be fair I did call one guy a moron because he attempted to misrepresent what I said, and did it poorly. To sum it up, "fags need to die" is acceptable "you morons need to quit using your religion as a reason to hate innocent people" was banned. When I invited them to follow me back to a chatroom where logic is king and hate is not tolerated any more than nonsense my post was erased within seconds. I'm back to my usual haunts today, reading and posting where people are ridiculed loudly for the inability to display rational thought but where hate and intolerance are banned instead of sarcasm. Much the way I do things on my Facebook page. Deal with it.