Nonsense. Everyone on the internet knows what pop-ups are, and most of us who have ever logged on (I would venture to guess all of us) have been unfortunate enough to have been confronted with adult images that we didn't want to see. Everyone knows that people who are strong advocates on either side of the political spectrum get hate mail. What people may not know is the highly personal and hateful nature of the mail the Filipina Malkin receives. Especially so since it is supposed to come from people who pride themselves on being peaceful, thoughtful, and racially sensitive.
Even the mail that didn't use FCC-banned language was suggestive of attitudes about Asian women that are as shocking as any prejudice still existing in American society. I live in the most liberal city in the country, San Francisco, which has a huge Asian population. Most Asians in this city are liberals. No liberal in this city could get away with dismissing an Asian woman by calling her a prostitute. There would be hell to pay -- oops, I mean "h*ll."
If you are the type of person who faints at the sight or sound of the f-word, maybe the emails that Malkin posted were worse. The fact that you narrowly focus on the word and not the much more disturbing context in which it was used leads me to believe that you personally aren't offended at the word itself -- you just are trying to discredit Malkin by saying she doesn't have the right to expect better behavior from Laura Bush because Malkin put the word in her blog uncensored. That's silly.
Are you seriously suggesting that you would be in 100% agreement with Malkin if she had put "f*ck" on her site instead of spelling out the word?
Or are you a Malkin-bot who feels that she can do no wrong?
Nonsense. Everyone on the internet knows what pop-ups are, and most of us who have ever logged on (I would venture to guess all of us) have been unfortunate enough to have been confronted with adult images that we didn't want to see. Everyone knows that people who are strong advocates on either side of the political spectrum get hate mail. What people may not know is the highly personal and hateful nature of the mail the Filipina Malkin receives.
Doubletalk. Most of us know what hateful e-mail is. Most of us know how to spell out vulagrities. Why spell out the vularities on a website that may have kids reading it? Why perpetuate the vulgarities when it isn't necessary? That was Malkin's point about Laura Bush. Yet she does the same. That's hypocritical. To defend such hypocracy is silly.
Even the mail that didn't use FCC-banned language was suggestive of attitudes about Asian women that are as shocking as any prejudice still existing in American society.
You can communicate the prejudice without spelling out the vulgarities. BTW, while Malkin was spelling out the vulgarities, she neglected to doucment the email addresses of the poeple who sent those e-mail. That would have been far more imformative than spelling out the vulgarities. But, she made her choice of what to edit out.
If you are the type of person who faints at the sight or sound of the f-word, maybe the emails that Malkin posted were worse.
Me, I not the type of person who faints at such. Why even bring that strawman up? I simply holding Malkin to her own standards.
The fact that you narrowly focus on the word and not the much more disturbing context in which it was used leads me to believe that you personally aren't offended at the word itself -- you just are trying to discredit Malkin by saying she doesn't have the right to expect better behavior from Laura Bush because Malkin put the word in her blog uncensored. That's silly.
I never said she doesn't have the "right". I'm saying she's being hypocritical.
No. I think she's dead wrong about Puffy AmiYumi.
I don't know what Puffy AmiYumi is. I think she was wrong when she reported on and misrepresented what Armstrong Williams did several months back.