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Thread #37802   Message #529342
Posted By: mousethief
16-Aug-01 - 01:11 PM
Thread Name: BS: For my Cyberstalker
Subject: RE: BS: For my Cyberstalker
All I could come up with was a couplet:

A nativized-spelt "naivety" Strikes me as linguistic depravity

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We're talking about a person who went to the trouble to look up my website and find snippets of the text there to quote back to me. A person who claims to have read every single personal description on the 'Cat to discover if I was the only person to mention "white." This is not your run-of-the-mill troll. I needed a word to describe this intensive level of abuse, and decided to use "cyberstalker." Those who don't think it appropriate are free to disagree. They are also free to kiss my white (last time I looked) ass.

Am I a racist? I don't think so. But the real question is, COULD YOU DISPROVE IT IF YOU WERE ACCUSED OF BEING A RACIST (or a sexist, or any other kind of "ist")? Anything you say, any chance word, will be used against you in the court of the c-stalker's slanderous opinion. I say that I am against what the nation of Israel is doing in Palestine, and BAM! I'm anti-Semitic. I jokingly call myself a "married white male" in imitation of personal ads (which I think online bio's in some way are a parody of), and BAM! I'm a racist. I probably shouldn't mention that I've been to Germany and found the food edible, lest I be called a Nazi. I'd like to visit St. Petersburg someday; am I a communist? (or an imperialist oppressor?)

A little of this goes a long way, and this has been going on since at least April. That's 5 months. I'm getting sick of it.

Those of you who want to have a discussion about whether or not this constitutes "stalking" or whether it belittles "REAL" stalking, feck off. Do it somewhere else.

Those of you who disagree with me sometimes, HEY GUESS WHAT! That means we're independent people! Hard having someone disagree with you, ain't it? Better get used to it. Cyberspace is a big place. There's probably one other person out there that disagrees with you too. Maybe even two!

To all who have offered sympathy and advice: thank you.

To all who have belittled what I am feeling: I hope it never happens to you. Try looking up "empathy" in your dictionary. Or minding your own business. (What a thought!)

Alex