Bob: Racists Ruin CDA Press “Gang” Thread

Bob: (A recent CDA comments thread under a story about local gangs) was a truly nauseating thread of comments from ignorant racists who begin by overstating the prevalence, activity and presence of criminal street gangs then stating how much they miss the goosestepping socially alienated loserboys of the Aryan Nation who, according to these windowlickers, kept the minority gangs out of Coeur D’Alene serving some sort of useful gatekeeper function for these haters. What’s funny is those neo-nazis, on their best days, couldn’t have stopped a bunch of 7th grader wannabe Crips straight outta Compton, as they were gutless little nazi posers and had no street smarts whatsoever. Notice they were carving out their weenie homeland in quiet North Idaho and not in downtown Detroit? Gee. Wonder why. They knew the best they could hope for, and were actually successful at, was scaring positive, legal, family focused diverse folks from even visiting North Idaho, let alone moving there. Which, for those weaklings, was what they truly hoped and wished for. To scare little kids.

DFO: I found the thread in question involving the racist comments on the Coeur d’Alene Press site under a story that was posted around Christmas here . The blatant posts were made mid- to late last week. I suspect that Press managers don’t know about them. However, if these posts were permitted by someone paid to oversee the appropriateness of comments, someone’s definitely asleep at the switch. They wouldn’t be allowed here.

Question: Should newspapers and newspaper blogs post comments advocating racism in a nod to this country’s free-speech rights?