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Tuesday, Aug 08, 2006
Cracker Troll
I'm a denizen of the comments at Hairy Fish Nuts. Part of the reason is the joy I get from swatting the softballs lofted by the trolls who frequent that site. One of these trolls goes by the name "Squeamish". I've always thought of him as a "reasonable wingnut". This is a term of art by which I mean "consistenly wrong, often twisted, but probably not psychotic".
In this assessment of Squeamish, I was mistaken.
His psychosis first became clear during the Katrina aftermath, and has resurfaced recently in the comments when the topic of Katrina came up again on this post.
Below are a few excerpts, from a much longer exchange, in which I compare Squeam's words to those of a famous statesman, Squeam pleads innocence, I 'splain to Sqeam the nature of his psychosis. Although D told me this was a waste of time, and I suppose it is, I have difficulty letting white-supremacy-expressed-without-saying-nigger pass without pulling off its veil -- or hood.
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