Originally posted by Robtard
If, if and if... Point being, no polls were done, no information (besides your useless anecdotal) has been gathered and yet you tried to pass off your claim that 'most whites are racist who just hide it' as a fact because you say so. To repeat, making broad-blanket-generalizations on a group of people based solely on skin color is racism. That is what racism is and that is exactly what you did.And as I said before, prove your fact-less claims or be proven the racist idiot. You're saying it and passing it as fact when you have no foundation, either take that Pepsi-Challenge and prove it or shut the hell up clowny.
However proof on the internet is spurious at best and proof about peoples motivations anywhere is always dubious.
Prior to DejaNews's archiving of Usenet, accounts of trolling were sketchy, there being little evidence to sort through. After that time, however, the huge archives were available for researchers. Perhaps the earliest, although poorly documented, case is the 1982-83 saga of Alex and Joan from the CompuServe forums. Van Gelder, a reporter for Ms. magazine, documented the incident in 1996 in an article for her publication. Alex (in real life a very shy 50-year-old psychiatrist from New York) pretended to be a highly bombastic, anti-religious, post-car-accident, wheelchair-bound, mute woman named "Joan", "in order to better relate to his female patients". This went on for two years, and "Joan" had become a hugely detailed character, with an array of emotional relationships. These only began to fall apart after "Joan" coaxed an online friend of hers into an affair with Alex.
Even those who barely knew Joan felt implicated — and somehow betrayed — by Alex's deception. Many of us on-line like to believe that we're a utopian community of the future, and Alex's experiment proved to us all that technology is no shield against deceit. We lost our innocence, if not our faith. (Van Gelder, 1996, p.534)
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