Note: This would have been posted as a comment to the appropriate LJ entry, but both the entry and the offending reply have been deleted, so here it is…

Subject: Re: Black Guy about White Girl about White boy calling bullshit… (that’s a mouthful)

First: Work it, Grrrl!

Second: It never fails to amaze me that people fail to remember that the purpose of a journal is for posting opinions and thoughts about life and the world around us. It irritates me when people get on their moral high horses and look down their noses at someone because they happened to ‘say’ what’s on their mind… and they were either hurt or offended by it. It happened to me and I had to explain to the offended parties that I meant what I said and, based on my First Amendment rights, was not going to retract what I had said (although I did apologize for any hurt feelings).

The simple truth is: If you don’t like what (fill-in-name-here) has to say in their journal, DON’T READ IT. It’s just that simple. If that concept is too difficult, to grasp, don’t come onto LiveJournal…. no, better yet: Don’t even bother to log on to the Internet – if you think that the things here are opinionated, what exists outside of LJ would mortify you.

::: gets down from soapbox :::

Sorry about that, but that kind of comment bothers me. I’m sorry that it was deleted, it would have been nice to be able to show that shining example of closed-mindedness to everyone.

I hope that the rest of your day is better.

Rob (shadorunr)

Peace.