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By all means, go after Chris Parry. He deserves it. But you will be harming the future of FR if you don't acknowledge what led to this.

I am agreeing with this sentiment 100%. And I am hoping that the net effect turns out to be a positive one for this board.

By all means, go after Chris Parry. He deserves it. But you will be harming the future of FR if you don't acknowledge what led to this. I am agreeing with this sentiment 100%. And I am hoping that the net effect turns out to be a positive one for this board.

Exactly.

Earlier (last evening) I suggested that Freepers didn't make any racially insensitive or racist comments, and besides the original thread wasn't available having been pulled. Turns out "newbies", most likely this Canadian pervert operating under various IDs, did that, but even then they weren't "racist" in the sense of American language usage ~ maybe they were racist in Oz, or Canuckistan, but not here.

I also suggested that the supposed delay in pulling the thread wasn't outside the normal parameters of Admin response at FR. Now it appears that Parry did all his stuff within a 15 minute time frame ~ and had written a complaint at Daily Kos immediately after that, and worked up a story for the rag in Canada for publication the next morning.

I would strongly suggest that FR's administrators responded faster than normal, and at the same time the "racist" content was of such an alien nature it wasn't instantly apparant to anyone that anything had happened ~ except for a supposed comment about a kid being a "whore".

So, saquin, you say you saw it ~ was the word "whore" used, or was it a response to the exceedingly obnoxious and offensive gang signs the President forced his daughter to wear (her mother dressed to the 9s and the kid dressed in what seem to be surplus clothing from the Italian equivalent of Salvation Army retail).

Was the "word" there or did you impute its existence?

We note strongly that this is an item many say was part of a comment done by one of the one-day "newbies" acting in concert with the Canadian pervert.

So, which is it, you were fooled, or you are in on it with this guy?