# Mr Dibble: What Kind of Crazy Is He? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 8, 2018, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-dibble-what-kind-of-crazy-is-he/817528 "2018-07-08T18:22:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-dibble-what-kind-of-crazy-is-he/817528/61 "2018-07-09T15:44:49Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > You realize that there is no logic to calling you a racist, it is a rhetorical trick they will use until you give up. So, I wouldn’t take it personally. Sometimes that’s all they have to boost their self-esteem. > > Hell, most of them don’t know what racism actually is in modern America. They have cultural touchstones that are many decades old. So they call you a Nazi or confederate. They have comic book understandings of history and live many many miles from where “Blacks” and “Whites” interact. > > They are mostly Bernie Boomers. If you look where Bernie votes were concentrated, nary a Black community in sight. They are white supremacists in the paternal sense because they came up in postwar public schools where White America was the saviour of the world and the avenger of Black Civil Rights. > > This **Dibble** character is in South Africa from what I gather. He is going to talk to us about race in America? Yes **Dibble** , tell us all about how you fantasize about claiming “black” American victimhood for yourself. okay, now the liberal Democrats are white supremacists? Because they care about the rights of other people? ---
**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-dibble-what-kind-of-crazy-is-he/817528/62 "2018-07-09T15:45:08Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Why wipipo always think they are the oppressed ones, because: > > 1. they think using the n-word in a professional workplace is just fine; > 2. just because a wipipo says that black people are pussies about the use of the n-word and need to grow up, then they get criticized by the PC police; > 3. they drone on about how the Confederacy was in the right and free public education is a racist plot. > > Man, it’s hard to be a white man these days. Yes I claimed oppression. Yes I claimed the Confederacy was “in the right.” Yes you are an indispensable public servant. ---
**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-dibble-what-kind-of-crazy-is-he/817528/63 "2018-07-09T15:47:07Z")
> [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#): > > okay, now the liberal Democrats are white supremacists? Because they care about the rights of other people? No because they believe they should intervene in minority cultures to make them more White Liberally, taking for granted their superiority. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-dibble-what-kind-of-crazy-is-he/817528/64 "2018-07-09T15:49:30Z")
I think Mr Dibble is crazy…crazy like a fox. Man, this thread should be tagged as the model for an OP trying to pit someone and having it turn on him like a pack of rabid walruses just looking for a tasty fish. On a more personal note, while I don’t often agree with Mr Dibble (read…hardly ever), he seems a good guy to me. He probably doesn’t remember, but he helped me out once in a PM about something I posted that he thought was racist and I honestly didn’t know was considered that (I actually didn’t know what the term in question meant, it just sounded funny to me and I had read it in a novel just that week). He wanted to make sure that I did know what it meant, and once I found out I was pretty mortified. That’s not the actions of a guy described in the OP. I haven’t read the thread this OP was based on, but just skimming the comments I’d say the OP will probably not survive here. This doesn’t seem the place for him. Do yourself a favor, OP…either read a lot more before posting or just move on to greener message board pastures. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-dibble-what-kind-of-crazy-is-he/817528/65 "2018-07-09T15:53:17Z")
> [@Jake\_Bullet\_Traffic\_Control](#): > > As a debater, Mr. Dibble has a rather unpleasant MO. He takes people’s words, twists them beyond recognition, interprets them in the worst, most uncharitable way possible … He is, to put it bluntly, a smarmy, dishonest piece of fuck. > > Case in point [:] > > > [@](#): > > > > (d) too thin skinned to survive in the modern world and should probably be culled for the good of the herd. You wrote ‘should probably be culled for the good of the herd’; Mr. Dibble reinterpreted this to mean ‘should probably be culled for the good of the herd;’ and this means he’s twisted your words beyond recognition, and is ‘a smarmy, dishonest piece of fuck.’ Got it, I guess. What is it with right-wingers and their need for ‘colorful language’? Truth isn’t on your side so you dress it up with exaggeration? Do you need a cite that the right-wing is full of idiots who would say something like this seriously? If such ‘colorful language’ is really needed then I think you should affix an asterisk in future along with a smiley-face and a disclaimer like “I am NOT a right-wing idiot — I’m just a right-wing imbecile.” As for ‘doxxing’, I know very little about post-modern English. However posting someone’s photo, however public, along with commentary like yours is unacceptably rude. I can’t recall a post or rant on or off the SDMB as rude or obnoxious as yours … and I’ve been personally involved in rude and/or obnoxious ranting. :eek: Even Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones—are they your idols, BTW?— may not be this obnoxious; and they, at least, are highly paid “comics.” ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-dibble-what-kind-of-crazy-is-he/817528/66 "2018-07-09T15:53:43Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > Yes I claimed oppression. > > Yes I claimed the Confederacy was “in the right.” > > Yes you are an indispensable public servant. You’re supposed to sign off that awesome post with “Ya burnt!” ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-dibble-what-kind-of-crazy-is-he/817528/67 "2018-07-09T15:57:49Z")
> [@XT](#): > > I think Mr Dibble is crazy…crazy like a fox. Man, this thread should be tagged as the model for an OP trying to pit someone and having it turn on him like a pack of rabid walruses just looking for a tasty fish. > > On a more personal note, while I don’t often agree with Mr Dibble (read…hardly ever), he seems a good guy to me. He probably doesn’t remember, but he helped me out once in a PM about something I posted that he thought was racist and I honestly didn’t know was considered that (I actually didn’t know what the term in question meant, it just sounded funny to me and I had read it in a novel just that week). He wanted to make sure that I did know what it meant, and once I found out I was pretty mortified. > > That’s not the actions of a guy described in the OP. I haven’t read the thread this OP was based on, but just skimming the comments I’d say the OP will probably not survive here. This doesn’t seem the place for him. Do yourself a favor, OP…either read a lot more before posting or just move on to greener message board pastures. Read a lot more before posting? That and hostile and intellectually dishonest in-groups might be a couple of the reasons why message boards are increasingly anachronistic. ---
**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-dibble-what-kind-of-crazy-is-he/817528/68 "2018-07-09T16:00:52Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > You’re supposed to sign off that awesome post with “Ya burnt!” I didn’t know you were a Boomer. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-dibble-what-kind-of-crazy-is-he/817528/69 "2018-07-09T16:03:11Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > I didn’t know you were a Boomer. Oh, snap! Next you can say something like, “You use an iPhone!” ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-dibble-what-kind-of-crazy-is-he/817528/70 "2018-07-09T16:09:36Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Read a lot more before posting? That and hostile and intellectually dishonest in-groups might be a couple of the reasons why message boards are increasingly anachronistic. I think it’s more a culture thing. Each board has it’s own corporate culture, I suppose…including this one. You don’t need to be in the ‘in-group’ (I certainly am not) to be able to integrate with a board, even this board. But you do have to learn the rules of the road, so to speak. And the OP doesn’t seem to have done so, nor does the OP seem to be trying very hard. This board has a high learning curve, IMHO, to survive more than a few months. A few weeks or even days in some cases. ---
**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-dibble-what-kind-of-crazy-is-he/817528/71 "2018-07-09T16:09:54Z")
No further characterization needed after Boomer Bureacrat. How is life as a trope? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-dibble-what-kind-of-crazy-is-he/817528/72 "2018-07-09T16:16:36Z")
> [@ctnguy](#): > > Cool by me. How about sometime this weekend? This weekend is out for various reasons. Next weekend sometime? I’ll PM. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-dibble-what-kind-of-crazy-is-he/817528/73 "2018-07-09T16:17:13Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > No further characterization needed after Boomer Bureacrat. How is life as a trope? Hur hur hur – next you’ll say mean things like, “You voted for Hillary!” ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-dibble-what-kind-of-crazy-is-he/817528/74 "2018-07-09T16:22:37Z")
Don’t you \*hate \*it when a hateful idiot is having a completely successful pit backfire, and then another hateful idiot, obviously starved for attention, tries to make it all about their own crazy home-brewed brand of hateful idiocy? Get your own thread, **Will** , this one’s for [del]me[/del] **Jake**. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-dibble-what-kind-of-crazy-is-he/817528/75 "2018-07-09T16:23:55Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > This **Dibble** character is in South Africa from what I gather. I don’t know why, but this sentence has me laughing. "This **Dibble** character! Haruuumph! ---
**Author:** ![ctnguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@ctnguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ctnguy)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-dibble-what-kind-of-crazy-is-he/817528/76 "2018-07-09T16:40:39Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > This **Dibble** character is in South Africa from what I gather. > [@kayaker](#): > > I don’t know why, but this sentence has me laughing. > > "This **Dibble** character! Haruuumph! Also, “from what I gather”? It’s in the freaking Location field at the top of every post! ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-dibble-what-kind-of-crazy-is-he/817528/77 "2018-07-09T16:45:24Z")
> [@ctnguy](#): > > Also, “from what I gather”? It’s in the freaking Location field at the top of every post! Don’t disrespect the **Warnaby** skills. He’s damn near Holmesian. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-dibble-what-kind-of-crazy-is-he/817528/78 "2018-07-09T16:48:59Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I don’t know why, but this sentence has me laughing. > > "This **Dibble** character! Haruuumph! That Dibble character is alright. Don’t get me started in that MrDribble though. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-dibble-what-kind-of-crazy-is-he/817528/79 "2018-07-09T16:50:56Z")
> [@ctnguy](#): > > Also, “from what I gather”? It’s in the freaking Location field at the top of every post! Wait–did he just remove it or something? I’m not seeing it there. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-dibble-what-kind-of-crazy-is-he/817528/80 "2018-07-09T17:13:30Z")
> [@Jake\_Bullet\_Traffic\_Control](#): > > There are TWO issues in this thread: > > 1. When Dibble said I was pro-lynching, was he lying about what I said? > 2. When I made fun of his picture, was that doxxing? > > These are yes or no questions. They shouldn’t be difficult, yet absolutely nobody has had the stones to fucking answer them. Just give it a go. 1. “Lying” is an attempt by you to define what **MrDibble** said. Nobody thinks MrDibble actually knew what you intended and yet lied about it; what he was doing was characterizing what you said in an uncharitable way. And what you said was, frankly, dangerously close to a typical racist [dog whistle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics), where the racist would _say_ “of course I didn’t mean lynching black people!” but would _actually_ have intended to allude to lynching. The purpose being to use a superficially covert implication that other racists (even “closeted” racists who might not be overtly aware of their own racism) would interpret and nod to themselves about but retain at least a veneer of plausible deniability – the racist could claim “no, I wasn’t _technically_, _overtly_ referring to lynching and anyone who says so is a damned liar!” You know, like in a Pit thread. 1. Not doxxing. But making negative comments about the appearance of black people – especially implying that they look like criminals or persons of low moral character – is a favorite game of racists and hatemongers stretching back hundreds of years in American slavery and racial separatism, from before the Confederacy all the way up to the latest Fox News personality comparing Michelle Obama to an ape. TL;DR: Maybe you’re not racist. But you’ve engaged in two of the most prominent, dare I say _flagship_ racist conversational gambits and it’s hard to blame **MrDibble** for seeing it and calling you out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-dibble-what-kind-of-crazy-is-he/817528.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-dibble-what-kind-of-crazy-is-he/817528.md?page=5)