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Joy Reid, an MSNBC host, apologized in December for "homophobic content" on a "now-defunct blog". This month, a Twitter user found similar material by using Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, although robots.txt is now in effect. This time around, Reid blamed hackers (archive) for inserting these posts into the blog, before admitting that it could not be proven (archive) that the blog had been hacked/manipulated:
Joy Reid, the MSNBC host who accused hackers of inserting homophobic posts into her now-defunct blog, said on Saturday that while she continued to deny having written the offensive language, security experts could not conclusively say her blog was breached. "I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things, because they are completely alien to me," she said on her morning show, "AM Joy." "But I can definitely understand, based on things I have tweeted and have written in the past, why some people don't believe me." She hired a cybersecurity expert to see if her former blog had been manipulated, she said, but "the reality is, they have not been able to prove it."
The posts containing the offensive language, which Mediaite wrote about on Monday, said that "most straight people cringe at the sight of two men kissing" and that "a lot of heterosexuals, especially men, find the idea of homosexual sex to be ... well ... gross." They also allegedly showed Ms. Reid arguing against legalized gay marriage and criticizing commentators who supported it, including Rachel Maddow, who is now one of Ms. Reid's colleagues at MSNBC.
The Internet Archive responded to claims that its database might have been manipulated:
This past December, Reid's lawyers contacted us, asking to have archives of the blog (blog.reidreport.com) taken down, stating that "fraudulent" posts were "inserted into legitimate content" in our archives of the blog. Her attorneys stated that they didn't know if the alleged insertion happened on the original site or with our archives (the point at which the manipulation is to have occurred, according to Reid, is still unclear to us).
When we reviewed the archives, we found nothing to indicate tampering or hacking of the Wayback Machine versions. At least some of the examples of allegedly fraudulent posts provided to us had been archived at different dates and by different entities.
We let Reid's lawyers know that the information provided was not sufficient for us to verify claims of manipulation. Consequently, and due to Reid's being a journalist (a very high-profile one, at that) and the journalistic nature of the blog archives, we declined to take down the archives. We were clear that we would welcome and consider any further information that they could provide us to support their claims.
Also at CNN.
(Score: 5, Informative) by OrugTor on Monday April 30 2018, @04:58PM (2 children)
Mormons are different. Firstly, They are politically active. Mormon voters vote how they are told to vote by their bishops. They have high turnout. The church fields Mormon candidates wherever there is enough Mormon influence to win the primary. The result is that the LDS church has political control way beyond their numbers in the electorate.
The second difference is that Mormons act the way they did at the outset. They ignore gentiles except for conversion efforts. They take their business to Mormons whenever possible. The consequence for the gentile is that in a Mormon area the gentile has a reduced pool of potential friends and contacts. If the gentile owns a business that business has a limited pool of potential customers. You can project other negative consequences for yourself.
I make these statements based on my experience living 20+ years in an LDS-dominated area.
So far as dogma is concerned, IMHO Mormon beliefs are far more ludicrous than even those of Catholics. They were made up by an uneducated convicted fraudster and are predictably silly. Much of it is falsifiable, a big no-no for dogma. If you are not familiar with LDS dogma check it out. It makes Papal infallibility look trivial.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday May 01 2018, @01:15PM (1 child)
Nobody minds when the Jews do the same thing. Or the Greeks or the fill in the blanks. Well, whites aren't permitted to politically organize for their interests, but they're nearly the only group.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @08:09PM
Nonsense:
https://americansforprosperity.org/ [americansforprosperity.org]
https://americansforfarmersandfamilies.com/ [americansforfarmersandfamilies.com]
https://www.americansforthearts.org/ [americansforthearts.org]
https://home.nra.org/ [nra.org]
Oh I'm sorry, did you want "white only" groups? Perhaps the problem there is that there isn't any real cohesion for "white people", the umbrella is too large! Maybe look for more specifics such as:
http://www.theirishsociety.com/ [theirishsociety.com]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian-American_Civil_Rights_League [wikipedia.org]
http://www.cpcc.org/ [cpcc.org]
Fuckit here's the big list
https://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/por/usbase.groups.htm [keele.ac.uk]
So, given all this I can only assume you're basically griping about the fact that the general opinion of the KKK is beyond low, and other such shitty hate groups that try to hide their hatred behind some twisted idea of pride. It would fit with many of your previous comments on this site and would explain why you made such an erroneous statement that whites aren't permitted to politically organize.
You sir are a nazi-lite fuckwad, go fuck yourself and the alt-reich horse you rode in on.