Quite frankly, I’m disgusted.
I’m shocked and stunned, too, but mainly, I’m disgusted.
Now, your old pal Юäƒ-¦-ërvØ¡ isn’t one who easily falls prey to disgust: I can handle standing downwind of a dead horse that’s been ripening like a big greasy Camembert in the hot California summer sun until its corpse is blown up about twice life-sized from the gaseous exudations of decomposition. I’ve got a cast iron stomach when it comes to disgust.
But the recent vulgar display of outright racism and historical revisionism by one LFST HOST Xenith has managed to gag even my unrisible gorge.
I quote:
Xenith >>> What comes to mind here, and yes, its a far cry from a message board issue, is apartheid. The people of South Africa were so appalled...the colored people (is that pc? no offense)especially. But, what people failed to realize, is they were the ones that voted apartheid in. The names fail me at the moment, but when the race was on in South Africa, the person who won, won on the apartheid platform. Then the people wanted to change it. I can appreciate the sentiment, but at the same time...they were the ones that agreed to it.<<
Now, if I’ve ever seen a TOS violation, that’s IT. Quite frankly, anyone who would utter dated, racist terminology such as "colored people" and then attempt to blithely offer a parenthetical defense against any possible protest with an offhand "no offense", well, that person is not fit to morally judge me in any way whatsoever.
As the father of two "colored people", I made sure that I called them to the computer and showed them the kind of hatred and intolerance that is waiting for them with white hoods and the hangman’s noose.
And if that wasn’t appalling enough, the vicious historical revisionism wherein the disenfranchised peoples of South African are BLAMED for the system of apartheid makes it quite plain that her "colored people" remark isn’t the hallmark of some ignorant yahoo. No, this is blatant, out and out racism. And let’s put an immediate stop to the ridiculous contention that the "colored people" "voted apartheid in". Anyone with half a brain and a working web browser can discover the facts behind what racial group held power in the Republic of South Africa during the post-WWII era. Here’s a few pertinent facts from the Encyclopedia Britannica that show the truth:
>>Until 1994 the three officially designated nonwhite groups--Africans, Coloureds (those of mixed race), and Asians (primarily Indians)--were systematically deprived of political participation in the conduct of national and provincial affairs. With few exceptions, the nonwhite population was prohibited from voting. In 1959 African representation in Parliament, which had been provided by three elected whites, was abolished. The 1984 constitution extended the franchise to Coloureds and Asians, although it introduced a distinction between "general affairs" (those pertaining to all racial groups) and "own affairs" (those particular to a racial group) and established separate legislative chambers for whites, Coloureds, and Asians. Africans continued to be excluded from the national government.<<
Now, let’s get down to the real nitty-gritty here: my original post about this subject was deleted from the WWW board, with no comments directed to me via email as to WHY it was removed. I didn’t get TOS’d, I just had my post removed. But EVEN MORE INTERESTING, the LFST Mgr wrote back to me regarding my complaint about Xenith, and told me that the original offending post was no longer "active", so all he could do was forward it on to the internal AOL authorities. This means that someone went and covered up the evidence pretty fast after deleting my post. Luckily, I had cleverly managed to SAVE Xenith’s post, just in case it accidentally got lost on the boards. So many really good, well written posts with no TOSable language have been accidentally lost lately, that I wanted to make sure that a good example of unquestionable racism didn’t get misplaced.
Now, here’s the final poke in the eye with a sharp stick: Xenith is supposed to be MY judge; she’s supposed to be perusing my posts for moral degeneracy, signs of foul language, and TOS violations. I don’t curse, I don’t drink, don’t smoke, don’t talk about sex and yet this moral shrimp who parades around throwing out racial slander, posts thinly veiled profanities (and tells us exactly how to curse and yet avoid TOS violations), this ethical monstrosity is supposed to JUDGE me. How completely and totally disgusting.
Can’t AOL find someone who’s more morally fit? I hear Manson’s online.
Ю僱êrvØ¡: he's the siren, he's the air-raid, he's the crater.