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Right Wing Commenters: 'The Muslim Rats Need to Be Exterminated'

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Charles Johnson4/03/2011 12:06:15 pm PDT

re: #534 dcmc

But honestly, what happened to civility? Why I have to get the wrath of God after making a comment?

Well, I’m not God, but my ‘wrath’ is because you characterized a minor edit in an old post, to correct a statement that I knew to be wrong, as being “caught” doing something sneaky. I do not accept that framing of this phony issue (that originated at one of the stalker’s blogs). It’s false. There’s nothing wrong with correcting posts, even old ones. My only mistake, that left me open to this ridiculous accusation, was not making a note that the edit had been made.

Of course I have no documentary evidence since I haven’t been archiving and cross-referencing this site in my spare time. The “Muck the Fuslims” account told me to go to hell (for opposing gloating about “security rounds”) in 2005, MAYBE late 2004.

Apparently, it made quite an impression on you if you still remember it. I don’t. But that person is long gone, and in any case that still doesn’t even approach the level of “exterminate the rats.”

But I do remember other bloggers trying to besmirch you because of comments on your site and you replying, rightly, that you had nothing to do with them.

And as I’ve written several times previously, no matter how many times a blogger repeats that disclaimer, and despite that it’s true in a real sense, the fact is that to a certain extent a blogger must assume responsibility. And allowing comments like “exterminate the rats” is way over that line.