"Hello There, Racists!" New Tumblr Page Outing People that Made Racist Tweets/FB Statuses After the Election

[#98QBKiller]

http://hellothereracists.tumblr.com/

Definitely some offensive (racist) language at that link re: President Obama being reelected.


This page is taking racist tweets & FB statuses about Obama and outing the people's names, where they work, what cities they live in, posting pictures of them, and highlighting previous tweets/FB statuses that were not set to private of them doing dumb & criminal things.

Everyone knows that privacy is something that is far from guaranteed in this age of social media. What are your thoughts on what this site is doing? Is it wrong to put people's dirty laundry out like that or did these people bring this upon themselves by acting like idiots online and assuming that they would somehow remain anonymous despite doing all of this via social media and not paying any attention to privacy settings?

My opinion is they are kind of getting what they deserve. I doubt any of them would step out into society and act like the jackasses they are online, they just felt a sense of false security, assuming that the internet would continue to provide anonymity.

I've always said that if people were somehow required to use their real names and an updated photo of themselves on message boards that everyone would be a lot nicer to each other.

[MattFancy]

I can see posting there tweets or statuses, but showing where they work, and live seems a little too far.

[BRAVEONTHEWARPATH93]

I approve...most of these ppl are too old to be on social media anyways

[MLSKINS]

Man, this is messed up. I know people aren't supposed to be racist or whatever, but I am firmly against "snitches", "tattle-tales", etc. This is kind of lame...

[#98QBKiller]

I can see posting there tweets or statuses, but showing where they work, and live seems a little too far.

If they were posting addresses I would definitely agree but it looks like they are just posting what city/state they are from..although it is kind of messed up to post what companies they work for, but then again they put all of that out in the open and didn't seem to have a problem with talking big when they thought there were no consequences.

[SpringfieldSkins]

If its public on Facebook or twitter (as in can be seen by ANYONE not just one's friend) then I'm all for it. Make people think twice about posting blatantly racist and hateful stuff on the Internet.

The sad part is, those folks are probably too dumb to realize what they are saying can be seen by all.

[twa]

No problem with it as long as they include all racists and are not hacking
Don't put it out there if you don't want to own it

[#98QBKiller]

The sad part is, those folks are probably too dumb to realize what they are saying can be seen by all

A lot of truth to this.

Don't put it out there if you don't want to own it

Agreed.

[MattFancy]

No problem with it as long as they include all racists and are not hacking
Don't put it out there if you don't want to own it

Ah very good point.

[Ellis]

Good God those people are some sad *******s.

[Sticksboi05]

What is it with you people and "don't put where they live?" Again, this is 2012, and this is the social media era. All that info is smack dab on their profile so anybody could find it regardless.

[greenspandan]

Man, this is messed up. I know people aren't supposed to be racist or whatever, but I am firmly against "snitches", "tattle-tales", etc. This is kind of lame...

that's a pathetic attitude. Racists deserve to be called out. It takes courage to confront or otherwise stand up to injustice, and this is one form of that. This has utterly nothing to do with ratting out a neighbor for smoking pot or something. Would you consider it "snitching" if someone acted on another person abusing a kid or a woman? Letting someone get away with saying effed up things without being called out is just allowing racism itself to slide.

[Alvin_Walton40]

Public shaming on the net is akin to a biblical stoning.

[Larry]

I've got a problem with it.

I can understand it.

But, to me, when you start publishing hateful things about people (even true things), and the person's address, and employer, and things like that, then what you're doing is encouraging somebody else to do something terribly wrong.

[MLSKINS]

that's a pathetic attitude. Racists deserve to be called out. It takes courage to confront or otherwise stand up to injustice, and this is one form of that. This has utterly nothing to do with ratting out a neighbor for smoking pot or something. Would you consider it "snitching" if someone acted on another person abusing a kid or a woman? Letting someone get away with saying effed up things without being called out is just allowing racism itself to slide.

Every time somebody brings up "snitching" people want to say what about (insert crime here). Of course if somebody was getting molested, beaten, murdered, you gotta protect them.

And yes, racist people needs to be called out, but this just seems lame. For all we know, this person running the website could be a douchebag, child molesting, women/men beating, racist, but nobody is calling him out on it.

What I am trying to say is, mind your own business and let things play out.

---------- Post added November-16th-2012 at 11:44 AM ----------

Public shaming on the net is akin to a biblical stoning.

Yeah, I was going to use the good ole John 8:7 "Yet he who is without sin cast the first stone" but I didn't want to turn it to a religious thing....