How do you feel when you are part of a group who is targeted online?

How does it affect you when a group that you belong to is attacked or stereotyped via internet? Groups such as your race, religion, particular lifestyle, political/activist views, etc. To what degree do you care?

I think it's silly to get offended by every little thing, but do you think we should speak up more to keep the hate from spreading and manifesting more into the real world?

Hurt, but i play it cool 4
Hurt and I make it known 1
Offended and outnumbered 2
Offended so i debate the issue 4
Idc if it's on the internet 6
I feel like they're probably right :( 0
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  • CountessDouche

    I don't feel anything about it. The silly pack of racist tits (or tit, as it may seem, because there might be only one of them) amuse me with their complete fucktardation.

    Think about it. This site has barely any members, and the majority of those members suffer from mental disorders that make them antisocial, to put it nicely.

    So even if these comments were to speak to someone here (unlikely, as this site is frequented by libtards), they still won't reach any further than the walls of somebody's mom's basement...and that somebody is going to get in big, big trouble for trying to burn crosses downstairs, yes sir.

    Of course, these matted pubes on the floor behind the toilet COULD chose a more influential platform, but here they are, every day, replying to themselves with multiple accounts, all fucking day, not getting anywhere, and it's better here than somewhere else, where they might have an actual effect on the tangible world, but no. The trajectory of their tard speak is unimpressive. It's like pissing in the ocean; it effects no one, and I'm totally tickled by how fucking pathetic it is.

    Troll on, wayward retards. You're as smart as a pack of angry howler monkeys gripping handfuls of their own poop.

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  • sega31098

    Racially, quite offended unless the targeter is a part of some racist group that hates everyone other than their race, in which I would just shrug them off.

    If it's something like a fandom, like me liking anime, furries, ponies, etc. then haters gonna hate.

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  • Legion

    i know im a part of a few groups marginalized on the internet, not that that it really bothers me.

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  • Legion

    everyone is a target for someone else.

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  • thegypsysailor

    I wouldn't know. I get targeted individually.

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    • How does that make you feel?

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      • thegypsysailor

        Who cares?

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  • Darktown

    I do the targeting

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    • Why do you do that?

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      • Darktown

        Its a doggie dog world

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  • sugartits

    im white

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    • *offers rebel flag, shotgun and pumkin spice latte*

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  • nobody13

    Usually, I don't care if a group that I affiliate with is being made fun of on the internet, because that's just the way the internet is; you're going to bump into asshats on the internet who either don't like you for petty reasons, are ill-informed about you (and like it that way), or just whatever. I think that speaking up is a good thing because one can bring attention to the way that some groups are mistreated, and can possibly convince others to sympathize, but that number that you can convince is usually a very paltry sum; the internet doesn't actually lend itself very well to intellectual discussion of these kinds of issues, and poop-flinging is more common. Because misinformation is so common on the internet and not everyone is good at vetting their sources, you're going to be fighting an uphill battle if you try to educate someone or demonstrate how they're wrong, especially if the person you're dealing with has some sort of emotional reason for believing in the things they believe in.

    I don't know to what extent the internet causes hate to manifest itself in the real world. I think that the real world is already chock-full of hate, it's just that it's become unacceptable to be an overt bigot in public, so some people go to the internet where they can be anonymous while they talk about what a swell guy Hitler was and how the kitchen is really the only place for a woman.

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    • I agree, the internet cannot be taken too seriously most of the time and I don't let it get to me personally, but maybe it should be taken more seriously? I notice I get more offended for groups that I'm not associated with yet sympathize with, such as when blacks are targeted and stereotyped. That gets to me way more than if someone says "God is not real", even though both are inane statements (I believe in God but I don't proclaim "God is real!" to everyone who doesn't believe so because it's impossible to know which statement is correct). That is certainly a battle that can't be won.

      Shouldn't we be fighting to eliminate bigotry and ignorance on the internet as well? Maybe we're making a mistake by turning the other cheek here because we view the internet as something separate from reality when many people spend half their day online. It seems it could cause a ripple effect and leak the hate back into the real world eventually.

      To be clear, I have no problem with people stating their feelings, i.e. "I thought something racist today"; it's when they start promoting a racist agenda that I get irked. Nor do I have an issue with racial/religious/sexual orientation jokes to an extent but I think, for example, the racist trolling here has gone too far and I find it very irritating.

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      • nobody13

        Well, for starters, I think if you're going to fight bigotry on the internet, you ought to have some kind of plan for that. I don't know exactly how one would go about that; my experience with dealing with bigots usually just involves fruitless debates which neither party looks good for engaging in. The only purpose for debate, I think, is that you can potentially convince a bystander who has been following the debate; I don't know if that's what you had in mind, but that seems to be most people's idea of how to fight bigotry online without infringing on the free speech of whomever gets labeled a bigot. Of course, bigots tend to be cowards and their greatest strength lies in numbers (and the echo chamber that provides); I suppose if more people opposed them and their echo chambers, they would maybe pipe down a little and many would-be bigots will also pipe down if they realize that their bigotry isn't acceptable even on the internet.

        I'm not sure to what degree websites having protocols regarding comments are effective, either. Whenever a website has rules that allow it to remove comments for containing hate-speech, the bigots usually just go elsewhere, usually to propaganda sites which specialize in disseminating the sort of bigoted trash that these people are interested in. You can try and go to the bigots' home turfs and challenge them as well, but for all the bigots' love of "free speech," many of these sites will downright ban you for disagreement and expunge anything you say that might inconvenience them. These sites are especially deadly, because people who may possess moderately bigoted views go to these sites and exercise their muscles until they're almost on par with a Grand Dragon (some of these sites, such as 4chan and Slut Hate are noteworthy for attracting people who went on shooting rampages; it's possible that these people's views fomented on these websites, though in all likelihood they were already hateful to begin with). They also tend to absorb other forms of bigotry while they're there, because some groups who are bigoted will attempt to incorporate ideas from other hate groups in order to broaden their appeal (think "A Voice for Men" an MRA website that occasionally publishes material by white nationalists, or "Return of Kings," a blog which publishes PUA shit, in addition to homophobic, transphobic, and anti-semitic materials).

        I'm still not sure how to fight against people of such inclinations; I'm forced to recall that time when IIN tried to put certain protocols in place which would limit your ability to make posts depending on your karma (plenty of people would argue that that didn't work in execution as well as it did on paper). What are your plans for fighting these people?

        This comment is long, disjointed, and idiotic, but I'm going to post it anyway and assume your mental fortitude is robust enough to withstand such a insult to your intelligence. My apologies.

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  • Expected. I hit back.

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