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HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts) Tue Feb 7, 2012, 03:29 PM Feb 2012

Yahoo Commenters: reinventing ways to say the "N" word:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/gardening-golfing-mall-192402034.html

The Pigshit Hog Waller of the Internet proves again and again and again that racism is still very much a problem in this country, just in case anyone thought differently.

It's the price you pay for Free Speech absolutism, I guess . . .

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Yahoo Commenters: reinventing ways to say the "N" word: (Original Post) HughBeaumont Feb 2012 OP

"Gangs", "Ghetto Thugs", "monkey cage from the zoo" justiceischeap Feb 2012 #1

Like I said in another thread: Losing the dog whistle and straight to the P.A. HughBeaumont Feb 2012 #4

Yahoo comments sections are the muck at the bottom of the barrel we call society. FarLeftFist Feb 2012 #2

Yeah, and I used to think AOL back in the day was awful Blue_Tires Feb 2012 #5

youtubes comments are the last bastion of gay bashing courtesy of google nt msongs Feb 2012 #7

I think the morons that inhabit sharp_stick Feb 2012 #3

Like I said before... rbnyc Feb 2012 #6

justiceischeap

(14,040 posts)

1. "Gangs", "Ghetto Thugs", "monkey cage from the zoo"

Reply to HughBeaumont (Original post)

Tue Feb 7, 2012, 03:38 PM

Feb 2012

wow...

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)

4. Like I said in another thread: Losing the dog whistle and straight to the P.A.

Reply to justiceischeap (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 7, 2012, 03:53 PM

Feb 2012

I don't even think Freepers are this bad openly.

Say what you want about a policed board, but life's hard enough without that regressive isolationist nonsense pissing all over things.

FarLeftFist

(6,161 posts)

2. Yahoo comments sections are the muck at the bottom of the barrel we call society.

Reply to HughBeaumont (Original post)

Tue Feb 7, 2012, 03:42 PM

Feb 2012

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

5. Yeah, and I used to think AOL back in the day was awful

Reply to FarLeftFist (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 7, 2012, 03:55 PM

Feb 2012

msongs

(67,413 posts)

7. youtubes comments are the last bastion of gay bashing courtesy of google nt

Reply to FarLeftFist (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 7, 2012, 04:01 PM

Feb 2012

sharp_stick

(14,400 posts)

3. I think the morons that inhabit

Reply to HughBeaumont (Original post)

Tue Feb 7, 2012, 03:49 PM

Feb 2012

the Yahoo comments sections have taken the position "asshole of the internet" away from 4chan... If not taken they're close to tied.

rbnyc

(17,045 posts)

6. Like I said before...

Reply to HughBeaumont (Original post)

Tue Feb 7, 2012, 03:59 PM

Feb 2012

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ya·hoo
noun \ˈyā ˌ hü, ˈyä-\
plural yahoos

1 capitalized : a member of a race of brutes in Swift's Gulliver's Travels who have the form and all the vices of humans
2 a boorish, crass, or stupid person

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