I’d like to tackle the username head-on, because there’s a lot of evidence in that name for all to see.
- First off, it’s six letters, just like the other, starts with h, just like the other. Interesting.
- It contains four letters in common, h,e,t, and r. That’s a majority. Even more interesting. (As an aside, in some dialects of Spanish, Caribbean certainly, the r can be pronounced as an l in some circumstances, so that letter may be doing double duty. This is not true in Mexico or in standard Castilian, though, so it depends on where h88 is from as to whether there’s anything to this.)
- There’s that 88 thing that got this whole thing started. Put that together with the first two points, and it gets very interesting.
- Someone around here brought up numerology, so I ran the numbers: huerta sums to 73, the other to 72. My guess is that he tried for one that would match as closely as possible, but couldn’t find anything exact. I suppose I could write a program for him to find one, but the pay for the project would have to be enough for me to retire on.
- Then there’s the evidence of the thread: h88 (which is how I’ll refer to him from now on, because it makes it obvious what and who he is, by taking out the fluff) kept it going all by himself for, what, a week? Two weeks? It got to the point where it was being referred to as h88’s blog, fer cryin’ out loud. So, we have a guy with 88 in his handle, name starts with h, has six letters in it, obsessing about a racially-charged rape case.
Wotta surprise, eh? Y’all could knock me over with a feather. Well, if I were a complete ignoramus or a stubborn right-wing ass masquerading as a reasonable guy, you could. As I have some common sense, no. - More evidence from the thread: the cite of the DOJ stats.
Now this is very important evidence. My numbers-crunching, as it were, can all be written off as coincidence, after all. But the DOJ stats? Damning evidence, especially given the handle, and given that the person with the handle single-handedly kept that thread going, even after the story had dropped from the news. I’d actually forgotten about it completely until yesterday morning, when I came back here and saw h88 blithering on and on and on about it.
After the invasion of this board by the sewer-level cretins from that other one, I spent a year and more lurking over there, reading everything I could. Over and over, the DOJ stats would come up over there in threads and discussions about blacks.
This was a while ago, the idea being to be able to readily id someone from that world if they made their way over here.
So, coming back to the world of the Dope, and seeing someone suddenly bring these up, I thought WTF? My first thought was, why would someone introduce statistics into a thread about the evidence, or lack thereof, of a crime in some particular case? It was, I thought, bizarre.
Then I thought about the handle, remembered my lurking days over on The Dark Side (it had been a while, so I had to dredge up my memories), and figured it out.
This was back when the story was hot, and ywtf and h88 started to get into it. I could pretty much predict where h88 was going to take this. I didn’t realize he’d be so obvious as to actually obsess though, so when I got on yesterday morning and saw that he had kept the thread alive pretty much all by himself, well, I was pretty amazed at the nerve this guy was showing.
As for those who refuse to see who he is, well, as I said, I’m not surprised at the list of his defenders, although I am, I have to admit, disappointed, regardless of the prior low esteem I held them in.
I had thought they had at least a shred of decency. Apparently, though, I erred in thinking that.
Oh well, no biggie.