Say what you like about Marko Attila Hoare and his politics, but he knows nasty little bully boys when he sees them and he sees them at Harry’s Place:
Racism, misogyny, incitement to violence – all can be overlooked when a member of your sad little circle of groupies is the guilty party. But God forbid that anyone should hold you accountable for what appears in the comment boxes of your own website, or that anyone interfere with the right of freaks and psychos to defame and abuse whomever they want while cowering behind anonymity.
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They make a cesspool, and they call it ‘freedom of speech’.
In this behaviour Harry’s Place resembles nothing quite as much as the wingnut parts of the American rightwing blogosphere. There’s the same persuction complex, the same need for enemies and the destruction of them, the same inability to understand that other people might disagree with their views other than out of sheer perversity, the same dynamics with which an already extreme worldview is made more and more extreme over time as the in crowd parrots its eternal truths over and over again while anything coming from outside the group is either rejected or seen as a confirmation of this worldview. It’s a very cultish mentality and the nasty attacks even on political allies like Marko fit in perfectly.
Yes but
November 23, 2009 at 6:05 amYes but there wasn’t a nasty attack on Marko. Find it. Find a nasty attack that Harry’s Place perpetrated against him. There isn’t one. He had an argument in the comments thread with another commenter called Mettaculture. That’s all. It would therefore be equally true to claim that Harry’s Place perpetrated a “nasty attack” against Mettaculture. That is, not true at all.