A commenter—awarded a temporary suspension after writing that unarmed black teen Michael Brown was to blame for his own killing because he was a violent "THIEF"—writes in.
I was banned from logging in because of one comment I made that was flagged as “victim blaming”.
http://www.startribune.com/nation/284081301.html?page=all&prepage=1&c=y#continue
If I am immediately banned from the discussion for a month just because I have a different, frank point of view, then I feel I can no longer visit or forward any articles for this site ever again.
Thanks very much for the many years of “wonderful things”, but if this site has decided to become a one-sided, close-minded, dishonest, riot-inciting political agent, then I can no longer support this site.
I will miss the old BoingBoing very, very much and it saddens me to see its conversion to misguided radicalism all but complete.
P.S. The image on the contact page is distasteful and irresponsible. It cemented my decision to leave. Encouraging riots, violence and looting by disinformation using an evil-Calvin looking boing boing girl just proves that it's all over for this site.
Goodbye.
Yes, he actually downloaded the picture of Jackhammer Jill and attached it to the email, just in case we were unsure.
