Last night, I managed to get banned from Gawker for what I thought was a pretty simple comment on their nefariously titled post Young Jews Are Not A Fan of Obama. The post features a video in downtown Jerusalem after Barack Obama’s speech, where American Jews and Israelis share their reflection on Obama and his Middle East policy. These include “Fuck that nigger, white power!” and the kind of angry, racist sentiment that could only come from years of cultural brainwashing. I left what I thought was a relatively simple observation about the inherent hypocrisy in the displayed sentiments:
“The funny thing about these people is they have no problem invoking the Holocaust, though the people [Palestinians] a few miles across the security barrier have suffered a 60 year campaign of ethnic cleansing specifically because they aren’t Jewish.”
If anyone there had managed to watch the video that was in the middle of the post, some young Israeli/American Jew starts going off on how his grandmother was in Auschwitz, and therefore the Arabs can burn in hell (a theme repeated over the course of the video). Does no one see the obvious contradiction in some over-privileged brat referencing the Holocaust as a justification for the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians? Or does this make me a raging anti-Semite?
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Gawker has too many female mods, they’re really sensative and in your case, extremely politically close-minded. I went to Jezebel out of boredom and I commented “Who cares?” on a post about a writer criticizing actors’ clothing during a reward ceremony. I was instantly banned from commenting -_-. Wow, the things you can say on Jalopnik, Deadspin, i09, and Kotaku before getting banned. Oh right, and I was instantly banned, without any reply on my comment; just banned, someone was on their period.
Got banned for saying Alyssa Bereznak wrote the Magic article for the massive amount of page views it would get, and that it was working. Some stuck up cunts at Gawker/Gizmodo.
I can’t even get approved to join Gawker
Yeah I got banned from both Gawker and Jezebel. On Gawker I was defending a womans right to choose from a Ron Paul supporter that was calling me and others di*khead and other foul language that the staff writers use regularly. The troll had a star as well! I wasn’t offended by his support of Paul but by the statements the poster was making and I took the bait and was removed for stating “no uterus no argument” which is a common perspective in the feminist community when it comes to our right to chose.
This is how it ended:
Weiner @fuckingoldman 13 Dec 2011 6:09 PM
Here’s your source: [newsone.com]
fuckingoldman @Weiner 13 Dec 2011 6:31 PM
You’re not talking about “reproductive rights” you’re talking about abortion, do you even understand the difference between the two? When you learn the difference get back to me.
In what piece? The racist bullshit, and that’s what it is, has been explained ad nauseum but someone with a closed mind will never get it. You really don’t have a clue do you, you need to pull your head out of the Obama’s asses. Do us all a favor and please don’t exercise your “reproductive rights”.
fuckingoldman @Weiner 13 Dec 2011 6:33 PM
Okay, now try a legitimate newssource you idiot, not what is basically an Obama newsletter.
fuckingoldman @Weiner 13 Dec 2011 6:38 PM
Do you carry your uterus internally? Is there any other place to carry a uterus? In your purse? Fanny pack? As a medallion around your neck? Thanks for showing everybody what a moron you realy are.
Weiner @fuckingoldman
Weiner @fuckingoldman 14 Dec 2011 2:33 PM
THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE
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Weiner @fuckingoldman 14 Dec 2011 2:35 PM
Explained like Henry Fords Antisemitism in his publications were explained? Excellent!
Steve Climaco @Weiner 14 Dec 2011 4:33 PM
Hey guys,
If you guys can’t play nice, let’s move on from this thread….
–from the Gawker helpdesk
fuckingoldman @Weiner 15 Dec 2011 9:25 AM
Try this – [m-w.com.] Reproducing is getting pregnant, abortion is terminating a pregnancy. If somebody goes to get an abortion do you say they are reproducing? Maybe you should take sex ed again. #move+on
Weiner @fuckingoldman Fri 30 Dec 2011 6:18 PM
Biology would help you. No uterus no argument. #moveon
I had 144 friend and 55 followers and without notice was banned by Jessica Coen. Its funny that now that I regular reddit I am noticing that Gawker steals material from there without giving credit.
My ban from Jezebel had to do with me stating the obvious. That the influx of Muslim immigrants into France had in fact altered the nation in a cultural and social manner as Bridget Bardott stated. The article was written in response to the law that placed a ban on clothing that covers the head. Seeing as I was almost run over by a woman in a headcover this week while running because she didn’t notice me on the crosswalk with her blocked peripheral vision I will stand by that opinion. But it’s simply an opinion based on reason. I’m an atheist and don’t care what god anyone believed in so long as there is a modicum of sanity in society. Driving while blocking ones face with a black scarf is unsafe. That is all.
So much for freedom of opinion and speech on the internet.
Got banned for calling Nancy Pelosi a cunt.
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