Stinking elephant carcass in the room. 50% of that jury was apparently comprised of homophobic, [View all]

[Zorra]

ignorant misogynists.

Not only was the post glaringly, unquestionably homophobic, it was also a fabricated scenario designed to promote both homophobia and misogyny, and was almost certainly a freeper/disruptor post. ("Trust me, I have experience in this" he posted at the beginning of his post.)

Yet one half of the DU members serving on this jury allowed it to stand without any reasonable explanation?!? Two of them with no explanation (cowards), one with a cluelessly homophobic explanation - "Well, those are a couple of interesting observations. I fail to see where they are homophobic and judgmental though." Really?

Unbelievable. WTF is this all about?

Rampant, pervasive homophobia in this culture.

What are we supposed to think as a result of this?

How can we, the LGBT community, and all of the awesome straight members of DU as well, now not possibly wonder about what percentage of DU, supposedly a progressive message board, is in reality comprised of bigoted, homophobic, misogynistic conservatives?

I am sad, angry, and thoroughly disgusted.

Here's a message for any and all of you homophobic bigots that read this: You are weak, ignorant, hateful, psychologically disturbed pathetic excuses for human beings.

Fuck all of you, you god damned filthy murdering cowards. You commit murder in your heart every time an LGBT person takes their own life in despair, every time some ignorant fascist bigot murders an LGBT person out of blind hatred. By continuing in your hateful, ignorant, bigoted beliefs, you, YOU, are personally responsible for the death of every LGBT child that takes their life because they can no longer cope with all the pathetic mean cowardly little bullies like yourselves who mercilessly taunt them because you are weak and are scared to death of anything that is different from you.

Now go, go crawl back into your hole, little monster, you disgust me and make me sick beyond my present ability to tolerate.




Here's a re-post of the scenario:

From DURHAM D's post, subject line: Its not good over there in the big forums re: jury of my non-peers.

SharksBreath - Post #19.

"I would say it's a couple of things why this may be happening.

1. The women who feel like they are men are a lot more aggressive these days.

Trust me I have experience in this. In my neighborhood in Philly we used to run a girls and boys basketball league.

I don't know how to say this properly but the manly lesbians were just so aggressive we had to shut the league down. They were like a gang. We actually had a few borderline sexual assaults in the stands along with a huge fight between the straight girls who were just tired of being bullied.

2. The gay lifestyle has been celebrated and I would even say pushed to them through TV. Especially MTV. It's cool to be gay and when your dealing with teenagers. Well. They will experiment. "


Although the thread was locked I was able to alert. By a vote of 4 to 2 the post was allowed to remain. Here is the automated message I received -

YOUR COMMENTS:

Judgmental and homophobic post.

JURY RESULTS

A randomly-selected Jury of DU members completed their review of this alert at Sat Dec 24, 2011, 01:41 PM, and voted 2-4 to LEAVE IT ALONE.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: Well, those are a couple of interesting observations. I fail to see where they are homophobic and judgmental though.
Juror #2 voted to HIDE IT and said: I can't even begin to comment ... homophobic: to say the least ... misogyny: assertiveness in women is not "manly" ... could go on and on
Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT and said: Homophobic.
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: This person needs thoughtful responses and a decent education and, barring that, ruthless mocking. What ever happened to toying with and laughing at posts like this?
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given