Race to the Bottom
Over the last month or so I’ve been getting hits a’plenty from people who are clicking on a link to Baby Got Books that is included in an anti-Obama viral e-mail (for that whole story, see this post). As I’ve indicated, that entire e-mail is total bullshit. But it doesn’t stop it from getting posted everywhere.
A few examples of where this e-mail has been posted:
- An Arizona Wildcats discussion forum
- An Orange County Register article about something else entirely
- A genius on Eugene Oregon’s Craigslist forgets the e-mail text but includes the links to the book covers
- This guy’s blog (scroll down under the most offensive Katrina vs. Iowa flooding post that you’ll see all day)
- AOL Message Boards
- A forum for people in the plastics industry
- A forum for Cardinal Sports (scroll down)
- A Comcast user’s forum
- and even Obama’s community blogs!
These are juts a handful of the posts that contain the link back here. Some people have had the good sense to delete the links and just stick with the text. A Google search will lead you to about 1000 more instances. The rhetoric in these postings – on both sides of the issue – makes me sad for all of us. Is it wrong – or terribly naive – to expect something like civil discourse? Where are all of the adults?
Moral Outrage | Tim | 
July 11, 2008 7:53 am
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