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It has come to this.
Right, so i'm carelessly surfing the net, and I notice someone mentioning a site called -REMOVED-. -REMOVED- is a website dedicated to bash people of darker skin colour, without any argumentation to why exactly they behave this way nor what their goals are.

I'm fucking pissed. Here's an outtake from a news article from dallasobserver.com.

A year ago, CBS 11 brought the world the 

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tragic but ultimately hopeful story of Whitney Mitchell. The Dallas woman, 21 at the time, had been an aspiring dancer until sepsis took all four limbs when she was 18. She was learning to walk again with prosthetics and dreamed of becoming a fashion designer.

Not everyone found her story heartwarming, as Mitchell soon learned from the Internet.
"Every now and then she'll Google her name," Mitchell's mother, Patricia Kirven, explains. Not out of vanity but because paraphiliacs, aka 

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"devotees," will "steal her pictures, and they'll put them on these kind of amputee-porn sites."
Finding those was disturbing, but more upsetting to Mitchell and her mother was a post she found on -REMOVED-.
If you're not familiar with -REMOVED-, or if the name isn't sufficiently self-explanatory, its a web forum devoted to mocking African Americans in the most vile way imaginable. It's described here as a 

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"hate site consisting of permabanned rejects from Niggermania and Chimpout."
The post that Mitchell stumbled upon, title "amputee wants legs to dance wiff," featured various screenshots from the CBS 11 story, crudely doctored to add watermelon, fried chicken, malt liquor and commentary that's mostly too vile to repeat.
Mitchell was distraught for a couple of days and remains upset, but she has mostly accepted it as an inevitable byproduct of the Internet.
Her mother, however, is still pissed.
"I just made it my mission to get that website taken down," Kirven says.
She scored a minor success early on when she notified Warner Brothers that her daughter's images had been placed into copyrighted images, one featuring Larry the Cable Guy, another a screenshot from the film 

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Dolphin Tale. The original post was removed but was quickly replaced by one that was clean of copyright violations.
Kirven doesn't have a lot of options for getting that second post, much less the entire website, taken down.
The First Amendment offers broad protections to speech, even the type of invective spewed on -REMOVED-. Supreme Court precedent holds that hate speech is permissible, so long as it doesn't directly incite lawless actions. Hurling racist insults at a quadruple amputee, while disturbing, doesn't seem to rise to that threshold. The lawyers Kirven has spoken with have told her as much.
Instead, Kirven is trying to rally enough of a public outcry that Cloudflare, the company that hosts -REMOVED-, boots the site. So far, her Change.org petition has collected 

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close to 22,000 signatures.
So far, the company hasn't responded.

It's an atrocity that humans have this need to fucking label eachother and themselves. Everytime someone has felt the need to label others or themself, it has led to massive outcry and bashing throughout nations world over. It's so fucking retarded that i can do nothing but laugh and commit suicide.

I don't want to live in a world where our own race is working against itself.

Can't even file for lawsuit against this site.



Oh, guess who's offering DDoS protection for them? Cloudflare. Boycott cloudflare.

A redditor wrote this story:
Hello Reddit. I'm writing this on behalf of a friend of my mother's who lost her son in a drowning accident a little over a year ago.
In the summer of 2015, D was swimming at a marked swimming area in the Delaware River. While he was a good swimmer, this area is a difficult area to navigate. He was pulled by the current out of the swimming area and drowned. A friend went after him, but the friend was rescued by a kayaker who tossed him his life vest. Due to the poor notice of danger, my mother's friend has advocated for additional signs about the danger of swimming in the area. Because of her activism, D's name is easy to find on the Internet.
Today, she discovered that the website -REMOVED-, a site that celebrates the death of black people, posted his story, complete with pictures of him with friends and family, and celebrating his drowning.
She spoke to a lawyer who said there was nothing that could be done because of the first amendment's right to freedom of speech, but that can't be right. I know I've read about copyright infringement to have pictures removed from websites, but what would be necessary in those cases? The pictures were taken from both his Facebook page and from a GoFundMe page that was set up to pay for his funeral expenses. Both are publicly accessible, but no right was given to use the pictures in this capacity.
Maybe a local lawyer wouldn't be the best bet. Is this something we can take to lawyers from larger organizations? I doubt his mother would qualify for any need-based services. She's a teacher with over 20 years in so she makes a decent amount of money (we're in NYC).
This family has been through a lot. I'd really like to come to her with some solid advice or some organization to contact.
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I didn't know this website existed until I saw your post. If you don't like the fact something exists, best not to direct people to it, and therefore gain it free publicity.

Anyway, links removed as we don't allow hateful content here.

the world has always been fucked, we just live in bubbles to prevent ourselves from coming to that startling realization.
It's not like human society evolved from civilization, it evolved from the natural order (which involved lots of death and other fucked up shit)

Life is hard
Life is an ass
Life is a depressing path to death
Your Life is special
Your Life is under your control
Your Life doesn't have to be depressing

Yes, there are hateful hurtful people in this world that just want to see everything and everyone burn. They exist.

But in my experience, there is a greater amount of people that love everything and everyone. The problem is, they are not the ones that get attention. They are in the background.

What those people are doing is wrong. They are attention seekers and exist because people will pay attention to them. The best weapon against these kind of people? To ignore them. You can spend years getting that website down, but as soon as you do another one just like it will pop up. Often from the same people.

Instead, focus on the good. Look at what your community is doing, look at that gofunme page and see all the support that that poor family had, read about the corporate outreach programs that came into being because of a recent natural disaster. You will find a huge amount of really great things if you focus on that.

That is my advice to combating this crazy stupid world.

Quote:But in my experience, there is a greater amount of people that love everything and everyone. The problem is, they are not the ones that get attention. They are in the background.

this ^
The only problem is that these people are usually changed by the world around them, not everyone can resist that.

Freedom of speech.

You can't pick and choose - and silencing those out letting their opinions, however socially/morally wrong is a path to more extremist views. (I.E the recent right wing movement - In UK, people are affected by migration, especially in areas such as Birmingham, Rotherham, parts of London...Their concerns are very real, in which they're silenced by others whom aren't affected by being called racist, or being shamed for their views. This directly leads to resentment, which leads to more extremist views...)

Oops, didn't realise how old this was. Thanks