Little bit better every day!
I think damuriajashi was the first poster I ever put on ignore. Or if not the first, close to it. Addition by subtraction.
Crap! I certainly didn’t mean too, but apparently I didn’t pay enough attention to what I was doing. Probably because I spun it off the Texas Judge Abortion thread (where we were learning just how much the judge there was cherry picked AND misrepresented his own past) which was in MPSIMS.
As I stated in the thread, it was a child of multiple such examples of our Criminal justice system. Well, no one else is really using it, or I’d consider asking the mods to move it.
My wish was granted!
Apparently I owe a genie or something, since this came less than an hour after my earlier earnest hope the mods dumped him for being a bag of trouble (and dicks).
(and there was much rejoicing)
This was my favorite post, which I misremembered as “tons of cites”, and thus had trouble finding:
If it matters, I have no problem with this thread being closed. One titular poster is banned, the other seems to have disappeared. And the original purpose of the thread (to call out any disingenuous bigot) has long since been overwhelmed by these two.
I just wanted to mention that Demontree has been back for a while, being themselves but not to the level of Pit mentions, but their support in the already Troll-Bait thread “Why is racial grouping of diverse ethnicities with different backgrounds still considered acceptable?” is pretty typical of them. Lots of Brexit maybe, just a bit was about racist issues, but they weren’t really racist, because it’s different in Europe.
So, yeah, Demontree at their finest.
I get the feeling they’re steadily increasing their participation since they came back in July of 2023 after a 4-5 month hiatus of posting. And they seem to have been less strident than in the heyday of this thread, but the posting in the thread I mentioned above seems more like the Demontree I expected.
Say …
Just out of idle curiosity, what is the functional difference between DemonTree and an outright troll, anyway?
Failing that … am I missing the threads/posts/history where she adds anything positive to this site?
My thanks.
ETA: her involvement in this thread is what prompted my post:
https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-to-tone-down-the-wokeness-especially-about-the-past/1010287
No.
She’s always annoyed me, but she’s too nonspecific to engage with.
had her on ignore since this thread. Haven’t seemed to miss anything.
She now claims she’s learned 90% of racial slurs from this message board.
Yeah, sure.
DemonTree’s an old-school Little Englander racist. I can well believe she didn’t know a lot of racist slurs before. Well, didn’t know they were slurs, at any rate.
Ah, she’s one of the “It’s not a slur if it’s true” crowd?
After my posting of ‘The Major explains the races’ from Faulty Towers in the Is it Time to Tone Down the Wokeness, Especially about the Past? thread she responded thusly, “I thought ‘wog’ was Italian?”
No, I meant more one of the people who might use Paki or Chinaman without considering them slurs.
Apparently in Australia “wog” is Italian.
In Australia, wog mostly refers to people from the Mediterranean region and to Australians from the Mediterranean region. This includes Southern European, Southeast European or Middle Eastern ethnicity, descent, and appearance, such as Italians, Greeks and Lebanese.
It’s been reported that “wog” had a non-pejorative use among the British in Egypt during WWII.
https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/letters/2009/pickett.htm
Given the bad relations between the British and Egyptians at that time, it’s doubtful that “wog” was a neutral term.
I started an ATMB thread about DemonTree’s linking to hate speech in the “woke” thread. We’ll see if the mods do anything about it this time.