Who would predict a story about Hispanics would have issues?
A. Patriot April 13, 2009 6:13AM CST Obviously Hispanics are some of the wiser minorities.
What’s great about the consistency of the racism is that it isn’t just some guy who shows up and is crazy, it’s that it is ingrained in the site that this kind of thing is second nature. A quote in another story caught my attention:
scdrking2 April 11, 2009 1:33PM CST I usually don’t comment on the stories here due to the tenor, but wanted to commend this family. Not because of the large number of children they have, but the notion that faith, family and togetherness are more important than stuff. This can be accomplished with 1 or 19 children.
This is the thing about the Post-Dispatch’s online operation. It isn’t attracting the average person to comment, it’s attracting hate filled people who are angry about life and apparently feel the need to share that with everyone. In the story about the large family that goes with the second quote, several people started talking about how the family must be on welfare. There’s no evidence of that in the story, yet the comments continue to sit there despite the fact that it’s character assassination based on nothing other than bigotry.
How does the Post-Dispatch editorial staff justify giving this kind of hate a constant forum? It pushes away the reasonable and consistently degrades people based on race, gender, sexual orientation, and even just random things such as family size. The public isn’t participating in the discussion there–a somewhat small band of loons is making it a hostile environment for people who just want to read the news.