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A comment on Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Internet. Parent comment

Re:Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Inte... by curiousjorge on Thursday July 16, 2015 @01:54PM (#9898797)
What makes you think that kind of vulgar racial slur (even if it's a reference) is excusable? By referencing it you've added to that voice.
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Re:Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Inte... by DanBC on Thursday July 16, 2015 @02:23PM (#9899001)
Parent comment says that people call mild, polite, disagreement trolling. This thread is about Pao calling out trolls. It's pretty fucking important to make people realise that this is not polite disagreement about some obscure topic, but that it is very many people leaving posts that are little more than "Pao is a cunt" or using racial slurs.

It's weird that you object to the racial slur but ignore the sexual slur.

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Re:Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Inte... by lfuller on Thursday July 16, 2015 @02:05PM (#9898884)
That doesn't seem to follow to me. If you ignore or suppress abusive language that doesn't make it stop - it just means you've accepted it.
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