Anonymous
Post 04/22/2014 13:44     Subject: Jeff may have blood in his hands if there is another zoo shooting next year
Anonymous wrote:C'mon, folks--

I, too, am puzzled by the moderator's muzzling of comments about the serious pattern of shootings and other gun violence in connection with the annual zoo event yesterday. Whether done out of an abundance of caution or political correctness, I don't know. However, to cast blame on him for future violence because of heavy-handed censorship is both wrong and frankly inflates the importance of this forum.
And therein lies the issue. Some are making it sound like there are shootings every year, and that doesn't appear to be the case as noted in several posts though any shooting is bad. I think the moderator is trying to eliminate mis-communication which feeds into some posters justification who want to make this into a race=violence issue.

No one is saying the shootings didn't happen but to infer that it happens every year is, indeed, incorrect. Period.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2014 13:42     Subject: Jeff may have blood in his hands if there is another zoo shooting next year
Like some of you say, it is indeed Jeff's sandbox.

Or, based on many of his decisions and biases, his *litter* box.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2014 13:42     Subject: Re:Jeff may have blood in his hands if there is another zoo shooting next year
jsteele wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
jsteele wrote:Owww! I was opening an envelope and got a paper cut. OP is right, I have blood on my hands!


Hilarious, Jeff. Do you realize someone was shot yesterday by the zoo, despite the massive police presence? I assume you were enjoying a cup of tea while Woodley Park was in effective lockdown?


Actually, I was stuck in a traffic jam trying to drive past the zoo to get home from the airport. But, you don't see me posting my tragic story about seeing crowds of black people.



Link me to any post talking about crowds of black people. Either you are quite confused or actively manipulating threads. And, did you have any kid close to the incident? Maybe that would have make you see things in a less comical way.
jsteele
Post 04/22/2014 13:40     Subject: Jeff may have blood in his hands if there is another zoo shooting next year
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:everybody should know never go to the zoo the day after easter. sad but true


I'm being naive, I do realize, but what am I missing? Why is that such a hot-button day?


It is African American family day and, somehow, that leads to violence every year, either mobs or stabbings or, this year, shootings. It would be quite useful to investigate why, instead of ignoring these facts.


Except those aren't facts. Shootings and stabbings don't happen every year. In fact, it appears that in 2000 there was a shooting, in 2011 a stabbing, and the latest event which has still not been connected to the zoo.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2014 13:39     Subject: Jeff may have blood in his hands if there is another zoo shooting next year
C'mon, folks--

I, too, am puzzled by the moderator's muzzling of comments about the serious pattern of shootings and other gun violence in connection with the annual zoo event yesterday. Whether done out of an abundance of caution or political correctness, I don't know. However, to cast blame on him for future violence because of heavy-handed censorship is both wrong and frankly inflates the importance of this forum.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2014 13:38     Subject: Re:Jeff may have blood in his hands if there is another zoo shooting next year
Anonymous wrote:
jsteele wrote:Owww! I was opening an envelope and got a paper cut. OP is right, I have blood on my hands!


Hilarious, Jeff. Do you realize someone was shot yesterday by the zoo, despite the massive police presence? I assume you were enjoying a cup of tea while Woodley Park was in effective lockdown?

Oh, I'm sure he knows. But the OP wants Jeff to take the blame for crime in DC since he moderated a forum filled with conjecture. I'm pretty sure his moderating the thread will have no impact in crime.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2014 13:38     Subject: Jeff may have blood in his hands if there is another zoo shooting next year
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:everybody should know never go to the zoo the day after easter. sad but true


I'm being naive, I do realize, but what am I missing? Why is that such a hot-button day?


It is African American family day and, somehow, that leads to violence every year, either mobs or stabbings or, this year, shootings. It would be quite useful to investigate why, instead of ignoring these facts.
jsteele
Post 04/22/2014 13:37     Subject: Re:Jeff may have blood in his hands if there is another zoo shooting next year
Anonymous wrote:
jsteele wrote:Owww! I was opening an envelope and got a paper cut. OP is right, I have blood on my hands!


Hilarious, Jeff. Do you realize someone was shot yesterday by the zoo, despite the massive police presence? I assume you were enjoying a cup of tea while Woodley Park was in effective lockdown?


Actually, I was stuck in a traffic jam trying to drive past the zoo to get home from the airport. But, you don't see me posting my tragic story about seeing crowds of black people.

Anonymous
Post 04/22/2014 13:36     Subject: Jeff may have blood in his hands if there is another zoo shooting next year
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:everybody should know never go to the zoo the day after easter. sad but true


I'm being naive, I do realize, but what am I missing? Why is that such a hot-button day?


google the history of violence on that day there
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2014 13:35     Subject: Re:Jeff may have blood in his hands if there is another zoo shooting next year
jsteele wrote:Owww! I was opening an envelope and got a paper cut. OP is right, I have blood on my hands!


Hilarious, Jeff. Do you realize someone was shot yesterday by the zoo, despite the massive police presence? I assume you were enjoying a cup of tea while Woodley Park was in effective lockdown?
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2014 13:31     Subject: Re:Jeff may have blood in his hands if there is another zoo shooting next year
jsteele wrote:Owww! I was opening an envelope and got a paper cut. OP is right, I have blood on my hands!


jsteele
Post 04/22/2014 13:28     Subject: Re:Jeff may have blood in his hands if there is another zoo shooting next year
Owww! I was opening an envelope and got a paper cut. OP is right, I have blood on my hands!
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2014 13:28     Subject: Re:Jeff may have blood in his hands if there is another zoo shooting next year
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
jsteele wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don't agree with the OP but I will say that the moderator has allowed quite a bit of race baiting, as it pertains to Black people, to continue on this site. When the Kansas Shooting at Jewish Community Center and Retirement Center thread turned into a war between Palestinian and Jewish supporters the thread was locked after three pages; and mostly because Jeff got into it with a poster. There was a comment in the political forum about Muriel Bowser's sexuality and Jeff threatened to shut it down.

I don't think there is any kind of agenda, but just count the number of unlocked threads that have turned into an anonymous assault on Black people. The assumption is that they start because some uninformed white person asks an innocent question. The threads instantly turn into Black vs. white and they continue ad nauseam until someone starts a S/O thread about a related, subtly racist, topic.

Don't worry Jeff... I'm not interested in debating this point and I will take your advice and stop commenting and visiting DCUM as there is something pretty awful about Black people every. single. day.


You realize that this thread is a direct response to my attempt to stop anti-black posts, correct?

I get that. No dispute here. My point is that there are way too many Black vs. white threads in Off Topic that are very racist and just rooted in ignorance but they are never locked. You're right. I don't have to visit the site or comment but when an East vs. West Bank thread gets locked post haste and the Black vs. white threads are allowed to continue... one wonders.

I've reported several race baiting topics to Jeff, and they're always deleted. The key is reporting them early. Jeff doesn't have time to read every topic.
Same here. And I've also reported sexual innuendo posts that go above and beyond and belong on explicit. The race baiting posts work both ways.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2014 13:26     Subject: Re:Jeff may have blood in his hands if there is another zoo shooting next year
Anonymous wrote:
jsteele wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don't agree with the OP but I will say that the moderator has allowed quite a bit of race baiting, as it pertains to Black people, to continue on this site. When the Kansas Shooting at Jewish Community Center and Retirement Center thread turned into a war between Palestinian and Jewish supporters the thread was locked after three pages; and mostly because Jeff got into it with a poster. There was a comment in the political forum about Muriel Bowser's sexuality and Jeff threatened to shut it down.

I don't think there is any kind of agenda, but just count the number of unlocked threads that have turned into an anonymous assault on Black people. The assumption is that they start because some uninformed white person asks an innocent question. The threads instantly turn into Black vs. white and they continue ad nauseam until someone starts a S/O thread about a related, subtly racist, topic.

Don't worry Jeff... I'm not interested in debating this point and I will take your advice and stop commenting and visiting DCUM as there is something pretty awful about Black people every. single. day.


You realize that this thread is a direct response to my attempt to stop anti-black posts, correct?

I get that. No dispute here. My point is that there are way too many Black vs. white threads in Off Topic that are very racist and just rooted in ignorance but they are never locked. You're right. I don't have to visit the site or comment but when an East vs. West Bank thread gets locked post haste and the Black vs. white threads are allowed to continue... one wonders.

I've reported several race baiting topics to Jeff, and they're always deleted. The key is reporting them early. Jeff doesn't have time to read every topic.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2014 13:26     Subject: Jeff may have blood in his hands if there is another zoo shooting next year
Anonymous wrote:everybody should know never go to the zoo the day after easter. sad but true


I'm being naive, I do realize, but what am I missing? Why is that such a hot-button day?