So, a friend of a friend might have said the smartest thing ever about life in the online world: “Never have feelings on the Internet.”
Of course, that’s easier said than done. In the case of what I’ve for some reason chosen to do professionally, the same thing that makes for compelling, interesting writing (relateable human emotion) is generally the same thing that will also lead to the hordes of terrible people online to say someting shitty about you in the comment section. It’s a weird thing to be heckled for celebrating your wife’s birthday, but hey, that’s a thing that has happened. Recently, even.
Last week in this space, I wrote about my experience in El Tour de Tucson, not because I believe that anyone necessarily cares about what I do in my spare time, but because the experience reminded me of some of the things I love about Tucson. I think it took about a day for someone to send me an email telling me I’m an insensitive jerk for talking about myself and not about the man who died and how unsafe bicycling is. While that was a terrible thing that happened and I can only imagine the grief his friends and family experienced, I don’t know that every El Tour experience needs to be filtered through that tragic event. Who knows, maybe I’m wrong.
However, there are times where we make decisions where the darkness of our own hearts causes us to forget that people online might have feelings left. On Monday, we ran a post mocking some of the weird people on the dating app Tinder that did not go over well (to say the least) and later in the day, I ended up taking it down. We really should be better than the sort of post mocking regular folks trying to score, even if they are embarking on their quest in the worst possible way. In the meantime, I look forward to what mockery this column inspires. Bring it on, cruel populace of the Internet!
This article appears in Dec 5-11, 2013.
Has anyone wondered how Jon Justice and his shill Katie Pavolich came to be connected since her days in college and being a regular guest host on his local radio show here in Tucson 104.1 FM? I mean she goes from college straight to a high paying job with a Washington DC right wing blog, gets some guest spots on Fox and Friends on the Five, just the other day was with her pal mocking the low wages paid to fast food workers, funny two people who cannot even relate to low waged workers other than maybe being served by them when they dine out have the nerve to mock, joke and laugh at the minimum wage being a poverty wage! Katie Pavolich has some strange connections to John Birch society see link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Pavlich#Bibliography
So I am not surprised at her and Jon Justice being connected, they do say birds of a feather tend to flock together, now they have imported a black right winger into the show a black fellow trapped in a white mans body who constantly denigrates his own race on air! I guess this is needed to feed the right wing white supremacists who unfortunately inhabit many parts of America!
A small mind denigrates any black intellectual who writes, orates on conservative politics. I could fill this space with doctors philosphers university professors, until my dinner grows cold of black folks who craft sensible dialogue on our nation’s future. And you, you make senseless drivel about it. Pathetic.
And this has what to do with Mr. Gibson’s column?
Yes in another era Uncle Tom was the kind old slave the master loved, like but no more than his favorite pet hunting dog! For those who do not see my comments connections to the column, its feelings……we all have them on a variety of issues and many of us display them on line!:-) I still think James T. Harris of 104.1 FM is a black fellow trapped in a white fellows body and proof is his denigration of black folks as lazy, shiftless, worthless and entitlement addicts, my feelings are mine and 1st amendment allows me to express them and anyone who wishes me to stop might use control of their own mind and not read my comments!:-) Have a blessed day!:-)