Same person?

[Anonymous]

Jeff,

I am all for free speech and using this anonymous forum to be able to seek and give opinions openly. However, there seems to be a rash of anti-semitic posts lately. I know you looked into the post about the cheap "Jew" returning tights and found that most of the inflammatory posts were the same person and also the "foreign born nanny." Would you mind looking into this thread?

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/30/70240.page#518349

Is the 15:54 poster on the 3rd page in fact the OP, and is this poster the same person that has posted anti-semitic things in the past? If so, we were all baited and the anti-semitism is getting out of control.

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jeff,

I am all for free speech and using this anonymous forum to be able to seek and give opinions openly.

Really???

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Jeff,

I am all for free speech and using this anonymous forum to be able to seek and give opinions openly. However, there seems to be a rash of anti-semitic posts lately. I know you looked into the post about the cheap "Jew" returning tights and found that most of the inflammatory posts were the same person and also the "foreign born nanny." Would you mind looking into this thread?

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/30/70240.page#518349

Is the 15:54 poster on the 3rd page in fact the OP, and is this poster the same person that has posted anti-semitic things in the past? If so, we were all baited and the anti-semitism is getting out of control.

Thanks.

The 15:54 poster is the OP, but not the person who posted the anti-Jewish posts in the other thread. I'm sure that he was being honest when he said that he didn't mean his post to be anti-Semitic. He just didn't have enough of a clue to understand that such disclaimers are not free passes to indulge in crude stereotypes. For what it's worth, the same guy was flaming me just yesterday, so I have no real interest in coming to his defense.

As far as the frequent anti-Semitic posts on this site go, I don't think Jews are getting treated all that differently than any other group. You may be more sensitive to such posts (understandably if you are Jewish) and notice them more. But, just about everyone takes a beating here. I'm not suggesting that I am glad that DCUM is a forum for all sorts of insulting posts, but it is probably an unavoidable side effect of the type of free expression that makes this site valuable. A very interesting aspect of DCUM is that people take off their masks and behave more honestly. The fact that there are a great many people out there who really believe that Jews are more inclined to offer unsolicited parenting advice may be upsetting to you, but I can tell you that it's true (true that there are people who believe it, not that Jews are actually more inclined to do it). Perhaps that's simply a fallout of the "Jewish mother" stereotype?

My advice for handling the guy in the other thread is simply to tell him that even though he didn't mean his post to be anti-Semitic, it came off to many people that way. And while you don't mean to be anti-dickhead, he should really get out more and find out what people are really like. Then he won't be so easily influenced by stereotypes.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for checking Jeff. I truly was giving the guy the benefit of the doubt and thought his post was more ignorant than inflammatory. However, when another poster mentioned being baited it made me think the post was in fact a set up, especially after the tights thread. You're right, everyone seems to take a beating on this site, but the anti-semitic posts were largely sock-puppeted in the past which is why this caught my attention. Thanks again.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jeff,

I am all for free speech and using this anonymous forum to be able to seek and give opinions openly. However, there seems to be a rash of anti-semitic posts lately. I know you looked into the post about the cheap "Jew" returning tights and found that most of the inflammatory posts were the same person and also the "foreign born nanny." Would you mind looking into this thread?

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/30/70240.page#518349

Is the 15:54 poster on the 3rd page in fact the OP, and is this poster the same person that has posted anti-semitic things in the past? If so, we were all baited and the anti-semitism is getting out of control.

Thanks.

The 15:54 poster is the OP, but not the person who posted the anti-Jewish posts in the other thread. I'm sure that he was being honest when he said that he didn't mean his post to be anti-Semitic. He just didn't have enough of a clue to understand that such disclaimers are not free passes to indulge in crude stereotypes. For what it's worth, the same guy was flaming me just yesterday, so I have no real interest in coming to his defense.

As far as the frequent anti-Semitic posts on this site go, I don't think Jews are getting treated all that differently than any other group. You may be more sensitive to such posts (understandably if you are Jewish) and notice them more. But, just about everyone takes a beating here. I'm not suggesting that I am glad that DCUM is a forum for all sorts of insulting posts, but it is probably an unavoidable side effect of the type of free expression that makes this site valuable. A very interesting aspect of DCUM is that people take off their masks and behave more honestly. The fact that there are a great many people out there who really believe that Jews are more inclined to offer unsolicited parenting advice may be upsetting to you, but I can tell you that it's true (true that there are people who believe it, not that Jews are actually more inclined to do it). Perhaps that's simply a fallout of the "Jewish mother" stereotype?

My advice for handling the guy in the other thread is simply to tell him that even though he didn't mean his post to be anti-Semitic, it came off to many people that way. And while you don't mean to be anti-dickhead, he should really get out more and find out what people are really like. Then he won't be so easily influenced by stereotypes.

now THAT was funny. choked on coffee.