This site should be de-indexed, reported or penalized. WTF.

by nest28
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So I'm sitting here minding my own beezwacks when I decide to look up "why do black people" do certain things, and this site pops up (url removed).
This is the first site I ever seen that made me want to report it, harm it's ranking etc. I can't believe trash like that is allowed by Google.
#negative #seo #site
  • Profile picture of the author ldiaz117
    Plenty of trash out there and sad yes but not surprised
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Just reported it through this link:

      https://www.google.com/webmasters/to...ggermania.com/

      Let others do it as well, pretty interesting to see how many reports it would take for Google to take action.
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      • Profile picture of the author nest28
        Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

        Just reported it through this link:

        https://www.google.com/webmasters/to...ggermania.com/

        Let others do it as well, pretty interesting to see how many reports it would take for Google to take action.
        Well I suppose I should have done that instead of just complaining about it lol. But no seriously thanx, something like that shouldn't be allowed on the net and I report it too.


        Edit: Actually thank you again Niko, I learned a valuable lesson, don't just complain , take action. In the future if something bothers me, I'll do something about it instead of just voicing my opinion.
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        • Profile picture of the author ronrule
          Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

          ...something like that shouldn't be allowed on the net
          While this thread has primarily descended into a racial discussion, lets get back to the original point because this line here struck a cord with me. I have to ask... at what point did "freedom of speech" become a foreign concept to you?

          We pay a price to live in a free society, and that price is toleration.

          Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending the site or its content by any means - but I will defend their right to post it. Once we create an "authority" in charge of what is or isn't allowed online, where does it end? It doesn't. Your religion offends someone. Your clothing offends someone. Nude pictures offend someone. Spammy internet marketing offers offends someone. It's a slippery slope that only ends with more government control and less individual freedom.

          You have the right not to visit sites you don't like. But you don't have the right to deny access to it to others. The day someone gets to decide what "shouldn't be allowed" on the Internet is the day we forfeit all of our rights.
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        • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
          Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

          Well I suppose I should have done that instead of just complaining about it lol. But no seriously thanx, something like that shouldn't be allowed on the net and I report it too.


          Edit: Actually thank you again Niko, I learned a valuable lesson, don't just complain , take action. In the future if something bothers me, I'll do something about it instead of just voicing my opinion.
          Ernest, I didn't have time to read the whole thread so if someone already suggested this, whoops!

          Anyway, you might have better luck complaining to their host. I supposed there are hosts out there who don't care what their customers publish, but the hosts I've used have clauses in their TOS against racism. Maybe their host doesn't know about it? Just a thought.
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          • Profile picture of the author nest28
            Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

            Ernest, I didn't have time to read the whole thread so if someone already suggested this, whoops!

            Anyway, you might have better luck complaining to their host. I supposed there are hosts out there who don't care what their customers publish, but the hosts I've used have clauses in their TOS against racism. Maybe their host doesn't know about it? Just a thought.
            Thank you, and thank you for calling me Ernest, everyone says nest28 like they don't know my name lol. Anyways it's not that important to me, honestly I'm busy working on my current project, to busy to worry about doing something to that site or it's owner.


            I'm a firm believer in what comes around goes around, so the person responsible for that site will get what he deserve some how, some way.


            I more surprised by most of the response in this thread, people acting like I was being to sensitive. They fired that lady from the food network just because they thought she might be racist, so imagine if the media got a hold of that site, it be shut down.


            But whatever, I should lighten up and not mind being called Ni**er right.
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            • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
              Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

              Thank you, and thank you for calling me Ernest, everyone says nest28 like they don't know my name lol. Anyways it's not that important to me, honestly I'm busy working on my current project, to busy to worry about doing something to that site or it's owner.
              No problem. To be fair, most people probably don't notice the "Ernest" under your user name. It is a pretty small font under our user names (at least for my old eyes, it is), and most just have the forum default text there.

              I'm a firm believer in what comes around goes around, so the person responsible for that site will get what he deserve some how, some way.
              Yup, I believe that too. The law of cause and effect will catch up to him sooner or later.

              I more surprised by most of the response in this thread, people acting like I was being to sensitive. They fired that lady from the food network just because they thought she might be racist, so imagine if the media got a hold of that site, it be shut down.

              But whatever, I should lighten up and not mind being called Ni**er right.
              You feel what you feel about it, I'm not in the habit of trying to judge someone else's feelings. I have enough to do already.
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  • Profile picture of the author PerformanceMan
    Remove the links from this thread, obviously.
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    • Profile picture of the author nest28
      Originally Posted by PerformanceMan View Post

      Remove the links from this thread, obviously.
      Thought about that, 1 link from a forum ain't going help it's rankings. I provided the link because people would have been to lazy to actually Google the phrase that brings up that site.
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  • Profile picture of the author PerformanceMan
    I don't think the admins of WF want to link to a hate site. Just sayin'.
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    • Profile picture of the author nest28
      Originally Posted by PerformanceMan View Post

      I don't think the admins of WF want to link to a hate site. Just sayin'.
      I sometimes forget about the rules here, thanx. Actually I never bothered to read the rules lol.
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      • Profile picture of the author bluecoyotemedia
        Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

        I sometimes forget about the rules here, thanx. Actually I never bothered to read the rules lol.
        Nest

        Good to see you posting again.

        Sadly my friend we live in a very ignorant society that is a fact so you will always find this ignorance surfacing.

        You my friend are part of that small percentage that are go getters and self reliant. I have read many of your previous posts and can say that with a certainty.

        Think about how great the country would be if we had more action takers critical thinkers.. As yourself.

        How's the Adsense world treating these days?.

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        • Profile picture of the author nest28
          Originally Posted by bluecoyotemedia View Post

          Nest

          Good to see you posting again.

          Sadly my friend we live in a very ignorant society that is a fact so you will always find this ignorance surfacing.

          You my friend are part of that small percentage that are go getters and self reliant. I have read many of your previous posts and can say that with a certainty.

          Think about how great the country would be if we had more action takers critical thinkers.. As yourself.

          How's the Adsense world treating these days?.

          Best

          Eddie
          Thank you for the kind word sir, currently I don't have any Adsense/Amazon sites. I recently decided to create a local business magazine site in my city (Philadelphia) to help small business owners with internet marketing and other business related issues.

          I find this to be a more stable business model than depending on Google/Adsense. I use the magazine to get my foot in the door, after that I do brief story on the business owner, place the article on my site and sometimes I get a new client in the process, for web design/marketing.


          Building a local site ain't half bad, really don't have any competition for what it is I'm trying to do, while my competitors talk about industry giants like Apple,Wal-mart etc, I focus on smaller mom n pop shops, bakeries, auto repair shops who could really use the extra exposure, another thing is I concentrate on my city and that's it.
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      • Profile picture of the author Robert Michael
        I'm guessing the site you're talking about is ranking #1? N-Mania?

        Yea, that is ridiculous.

        But this isn't possible!! As all these people would have you believe, QUALITY CONTENT IS KING! REMEMBER???

        lmfao
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        • Profile picture of the author pharvie
          Originally Posted by Whos That Guru View Post

          I'm guessing the site you're talking about is ranking #1? N-Mania?

          Yea, that is ridiculous.

          But this isn't possible!! As all these people would have you believe, QUALITY CONTENT IS KING! REMEMBER???

          lmfao
          You are not kidding my friend! No matter what you search for out there it is always the GARBAGE that ranks page one. Ok maybe not ALWAYS, but a good majority of the time. These people obviously have amazing web masters and back link builders, because I have been producing quality content for a long time now (well I think it's quality content and so do most people who get to read it) But I still have a hard time ranking on google. You have to search quite specific search terms for it to show up. Ah well, I'll keep on writing. It's what i like to do.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Give me a break, you guys are too sensitive.

    Like nobody makes fun of any other race. :rolleyes:

    Do the same search for white people, asian people, or cavemen & you'll get similar search results.

    If you go looking for racist things, you'll find racist things.

    Somebody farted, I'm telling, all ya'll in trouble! Now then! :p
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    • Profile picture of the author nest28
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Give me a break, you guys are too sensitive.

      Like nobody makes fun of any other race. :rolleyes:

      Do the same search for white people, asian people, or cavemen & you'll get similar search results.

      If you go looking for racist things, you'll find racist things.

      Somebody farted, I'm telling, all ya'll in trouble! Now then! :p
      Naw, the very name of the site that was in the OP was extremely offensive, they used the "N" word excessively. Here's few one jokes from that site:




      why were so many ("N" word) killed in the Vietnam war??

      because when the sergeant said to "get down", they all got up and started dancing.


      A Mexican and a ('N" word) are riding in car . . who's driving?
      A cop!


      The stuff you link to about whites and Asians was nothing compared to this, the name of the site is Nig***mania for God sake.


      Honestly the only things blacks say about whites are, "why do white people always fall in a scary movie" , "only white people stay in a haunted house, black would been gone", etc, basically harmless observations.
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

        Naw, the very name of the site that was in the OP was extremely offensive, they used the "N" word excessively. Here's few one jokes from that site:




        why were so many ("N" word) killed in the Vietnam war??

        because when the sergeant said to "get down", they all got up and started dancing.


        A Mexican and a ('N" word) are riding in car . . who's driving?
        A cop!


        The stuff you link to about whites and Asians was nothing compared to this, the name of the site is Nig***mania for God sake.


        Honestly the only things blacks say about whites are, "why do white people always fall in a scary movie" , "only white people stay in a haunted house, black would been gone", etc, basically harmless observations.
        I've seen the site, nik0 posted a Google link with the url.

        If sites like that are offensive to anyone, don't visit the site. This is the internet, there's only a few billion people all posting opinions.

        I don't agree with the site, but I'm sure there's hundreds more out there none of us agree with. I'm not going to waste my time chasing them down & reporting them.

        I'm sure Googles algo has a bad word filter & they already know about the site, it's not like the site is trying to hide anything. Maybe it's one of those guys that was banned by Adsense but he can't figure where it all went wrong? Just kidding.

        Spare me on the only thing black people say about whites is related to haunted houses, lol.
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        • Profile picture of the author nest28
          Originally Posted by yukon View Post

          I've seen the site, nik0 posted a Google link with the url.

          If sites like that are offensive to anyone, don't visit the site. This is the internet, there's only a few billion people all posting opinions.

          I don't agree with the site, but I'm sure there's hundreds more out there none of us agree with. I'm not going to waste my time chasing them down & reporting them.

          I'm sure Googles algo has a bad word filter & they already know about the site, it's not like the site is trying to hide anything. Maybe it's one of those guys that was banned by Adsense but he can't figure where it all went wrong? Just kidding.

          Spare me on the only thing black people say about whites is related to haunted houses, lol.
          I don't go looking for sites like this, in fact this is the very first time I came across anything like this, either way I'm not trying to start a revolution or movement to take down all sites that are offensive, I just told WF about what I found.


          Far as what blacks say about whites, in my circle of family and friends those are the only things ever said. The only other thing we say (and this is only when something really bad happens on the news) is at least they wasn't black lol.

          But I never heard anyone have hatred for whites or any other race, we just wonder why whites don't like us if anything. But I'll end it here, this is a forum for IM, not race relations or politics etc.
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          • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
            Originally Posted by nest28 View Post


            But I never heard anyone have hatred for whites or any other race, we just wonder why whites don't like us if anything. But I'll end it here, this is a forum for IM, not race relations or politics etc.
            Actually SEO IS the first thing I thought of. Doesn't surprise me there are jackasses in the world . Nest this is a FANTASTIC result to analyze because its pretty obvious Google would not want that listing so it will show you how relevancy is determined and maybe even some LSI.

            I am running a check on the backlinks right now but great find
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            • Profile picture of the author nest28
              Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

              Actually SEO IS the first thing I thought of. Doesn't surprise me there are jackasses in the world . Nest this is a FANTASTIC result to analyze because its pretty obvious Google would not want that listing so it will show you how relevancy is determined and maybe even some LSI.

              I am running a check on the backlinks right now but great find
              True, you and PBScott are right about examining this site's backlinks and on-page SEO. The words used on the site should be enough for it to have been penalized, wonder why it's even around at all.

              I mean the domain name and site description alone is filled with hate words.

              Edit: It has a few links from other racist sites, the rest are internal I think.
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              • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

                The words used on the site should be enough for it to have been penalized, wonder why it's even around at all.

                I mean the domain name and site description alone is filled with hate words.
                Well I don't know that they can automatically filter out sites with hate words. A lot of Rap lyric pages would go for example plus theres dictionaries and discussions where there might be adult meaningful contributions about racism and words
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                • Profile picture of the author dburk
                  Hi nest28,

                  How are we going to know who the haters are, unless we allow them to speak out?

                  While I disagree with people who speak hate, I do not want them silenced, instead I want to know who they are, and what they think, so that I may judge them on their character.

                  By all means, call them insensitive ignorant haters, or the scum of the earth, but let's not silence them, else we won't know who to avoid. Let's publicly ridicule them, but let's not shut down their websites. Instead, bring them out into the light of day so that we can publicly belittle them for the fools that they are.
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                • Profile picture of the author yukon
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                  Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                  Well I don't know that they can automatically filter out sites with hate words. A lot of Rap lyric pages would go for example plus theres dictionaries and discussions where there might be adult meaningful contributions about racism and words
                  Your being prejudice towards rappers.
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              • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
                Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

                True, you and PBScott are right about examining this site's backlinks and on-page SEO. The words used on the site should be enough for it to have been penalized, wonder why it's even around at all.
                Apparently Google doesn't remove sites based upon bad words in it and that some/most people may find them offensive. Just imagine the chaos if they did.
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          • Profile picture of the author Carl Brown
            Originally Posted by nest28 View Post


            But I never heard anyone have hatred for whites or any other race, we just wonder why whites don't like us if anything.
            But I'll end it here, this is a forum for IM, not race relations or politics etc.
            You can't be serious! Or you don't get out much.
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            • Profile picture of the author nest28
              Originally Posted by Carl Brown View Post

              You can't be serious! Or you don't get out much.
              I am speaking about my own personal experience. Me and mines don't hate anybody. Honestly blacks hate each other more than whites for some dumbass reason.
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        • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
          Originally Posted by yukon View Post

          Give me a break, you guys are too sensitive.
          Seriously who but a racist in our day and time claims that people objecting to the N word are too sensitive?

          When I called you out on the AL sharpton comment a few weeks ago you denied it and here you are showing the same thing

          If sites like that are offensive to anyone,
          ROFL you gotta love the "if" there.
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          • Profile picture of the author yukon
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            Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

            Seriously who but a racist in our day and time claims that people objecting to the N word are too sensitive?

            When I called you out on the AL sharpton comment a few weeks ago you denied it and here you are showing the same thing
            Call me out again, because Al Sharpton is still a fool.
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            • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
              Originally Posted by yukon View Post

              Call me out again, because Al Sharpton is still a fool.
              Bleh you were not called out for that. you were called out for trying to bring al sharpton into a debate with me which had nothing to do with him because you know my race (and for making all kinds of references to affirmative action and anywhere outside of the US being some hole) .

              In this thread?

              Just straight up showing who you are.


              Originally Posted by yukon View Post

              Your being prejudice towards rappers.
              those that use the N word. um yeah. Don't yell to loud Yuke

              " Sweet Jesus martha did you know there are blacks that don't like rap?"

              lol
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              • Profile picture of the author yukon
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                Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                Bleh you were not called out for that. you were called out for trying to bring al sharpton into a debate with me which had nothing to do with him because you know my race (and for making all kinds of references to affirmative action and anywhere outside of the US being some hole) .

                In this thread?

                Just straight up showing who you are.
                Lol, how would I know your race, I've never met you before.

                Your forum avatar looks like a white guy to me. Is that you in your SEO lab?
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                • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                  Originally Posted by yukon View Post

                  Lol, how would I know your race, I've never met you before.

                  Your forum avatar looks like a white guy to me.
                  Dude you are fooling no one. You've been in multiple threads where I stated it straight up so thats answers how you would and did know.

                  Is that you in your SEO lab?
                  No is that the silhouette of your hair in yours? Tell mom that aint right.

                  Either way if I was focus on business and not some garbage site I wouldn't even have made this thread.
                  Can't work on business 24 hours a day . I am glad you did because its a very interesting site just from the Seo perspective and has become even more interesting now that I see the difference in Bing's algo. the site doesn't have all that many backlinks by the way (to that page at least) so there is some relevancy content issues to learn from it.
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                  • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
                    Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                    Dude you are fooling no one. You've been in multiple threads where I stated it straight up so thats answers how you would and did know.
                    Maybe he didn't give a shit and he didn't remember?
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                    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                      Originally Posted by Marc_L View Post

                      Maybe he didn't give a shit and he didn't remember?

                      LOL you don't even know what we were talking about in the other thread. All this thread you just see Mike Anthony and say "oooh ooh let me try again"

                      Dude if you were any more transparent you'd be air but hey I give you high marks with the way you keep trying - you are like Road runner's Wile E. Coyote.
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                      • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
                        Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                        LOL you don't even know what we were talking about in the other thread. All this thread you just see Mike Anthony and say "oooh ooh let me try again"
                        Right, I have no idea what was said in that other thread. Never claimed otherwise. I only suggested that MAYBE he didn't remember it when you said what race you were.

                        I don't follow you around its just that you just say more stupid shit than most so I respond to it. You don't see me getting in back and forth's with multiple posters like we see you do constantly. The only person that this has happened with me here is you.
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                        • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                          Originally Posted by Marc_L View Post

                          I don't follow you around its just that you just say more stupid shit than most so I respond to it. You don't see me getting in back and forth's with multiple posters like we see you do constantly. The only person that this has happened with me here is you.
                          unfortunately Marc anyone can see your very first post in this thread making a bee line straight for me. You were too obvious in wanting to engage me in particular and the last sentence? Liar liar pants on fire. Ive seen you get into it with more than me.

                          Originally Posted by Marc_L View Post

                          The advice given by ThePromotionalGuy was well taken by the one he gave it to. Leave it at that.
                          Its an idea stated in an open forum to all. I responded by asking a question and then explained why i asked it. Don't like it? too bad. When you become a mod you can give directions (only not to me because the place would have gotten too bad to even post here.)

                          They can deindex a site just fine which is basically the same thing. OP suggested deindexing.
                          Total nonsense. not being listed in google is not taking the site down. People can and do have completely successful sites on the internet that do not rely on traffic from google. In your desperation to debate me on any and every issue you fall further and further from your goal of actually having a point that stands.
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                          • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
                            Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                            unfortunately Marc anyone can see your very first post in this thread making a bee line straight for me. You were too obvious and the last sentence? Liar liar pants on fire. Ive seen you get into it with more than me.
                            I've disagreed with others but never the back and forths you seem to generate.

                            You've brought up two different threads where you had arguments with posters in this very thread.
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                            • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                              You've brought up two different threads where you had arguments with posters in this very thread.
                              Does the word laclearly jog your memory? lol ..now we are both at two and since you clearly started this one you are at three.

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                              Originally Posted by Marc_L View Post

                              Could you imagine how messy it would get when religious sites start getting reported by other religion's adherents?
                              You got to love how some white guys in this thread (and perspective makes a huge difference in a discussion involving race since those not called a name can always be more dispassionate/apathetic)try and equate mere disagreements to racism and using the N word like society draws no line between calling somebody a nig and simply having different religious beliefs. NO? then why would religious sites come into it? You are jsut trying to belittle the issue as a disagreemnt. All this free speech stuff coming from a guy KNOWN to complain to mods about removing posts that speaks derogatory about his business. lol. busted

                              What can I say? You do have a skill of always coming up on the wrong side on an argument. thats the real reason we disagree so often.

                              anyway I pass on more of the same. Try again in another thread.
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                              • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
                                Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                                Does the word laclearly jog your memory? lol ..now we are both at two and since you clearly started this one you are at three.
                                LOL

                                You got into it with three people in that thread, at least.
                                You got to love how the white guys in this thread try and equate mere disagreements to racism and using the N word like society draws no line between calling somebody a nig and simply having different religious beliefs. NO? then why would religious sites come into it?
                                You totally misunderstand the point, as always. But why are you bringing up my race? I don't care what race you are, why should it matter what race I am?

                                I am in no way equating differences in religious belief with racist opinions and people being offended by them.
                                You are jsut trying to belittle the issue as a disagreemnt.
                                Nope, just another reason that "removing sites" AKA "deindexing sites" simply because some group of people disagrees with them won't work.
                                All this free speech stuff coming from a guy KNOWN to complain to mods about removing posts that speaks derogatory about his business. lol. busted
                                You don't know shit.
                                What can I say? You do have a skill of always coming up on the wrong side on an argument. thats the real reason we disagree so often.
                                When I argue with a moron I get what I get I suppose. My bad.
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                          • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
                            Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                            unfortunately Marc anyone can see your very first post in this thread making a bee line straight for me.
                            Yeah I went right after you! What did I say? "I don't know what that other thread has to do with this one." WOW

                            Its an idea stated in an open forum to all. I responded by asking a question and then explained why i asked it.
                            Maybe work on your people skills? You came off as a prick.
                            Total nonsense. not being listed in google is not taking the site down. People can and do have completely successful sites on the internet that do not rely on traffic from google. In your desperation to debate me on any and every issue you fall further and further from your goal of actually having a point that stands.
                            You'll quibble for page after page on the minutest of points with amazing skepticism with those you disagree with but interpret the OP in the broadest sense to argue his point. Why?

                            Nobody and I mean nobody is saying you need google for the site to be successful.

                            Why couldn't the guy saying "the site to be taken down" really mean to be deindexed? It's probably what he meant.
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                    • Profile picture of the author yukon
                      Banned
                      Originally Posted by Marc_L View Post

                      Maybe he didn't give a shit and he didn't remember?
                      True, nobody cares, that's what makes his consistent Al Sharpton belly aching so funny.



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                • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
                  Originally Posted by yukon View Post

                  Lol, how would I know your race, I've never met you before.

                  Your forum avatar looks like a white guy to me. Is that you in your SEO lab?
                  Mike Anthony (catuira) on Pinterest

                  Is that you Mike?
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    • Profile picture of the author Carl Brown
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Give me a break, you guys are too sensitive.

      Like nobody makes fun of any other race. :rolleyes:

      Do the same search for white people, asian people, or cavemen & you'll get similar search results.

      If you go looking for racist things, you'll find racist things.

      Somebody farted, I'm telling, all ya'll in trouble! Now then! :p
      Had to sign in just to add my thanks. "minding my own beeswax" my ...

      I find a lot of stuff I don't care for on this web thing. I don't want this mad government (or google) making decisions for anyone. If they're using adsense, that's a violation of their tos. Censoring my search results is wrong.
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      • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
        "You've got a lot of good information, I don't think anybody is saying its because of your SEO views that you get into these fights. Its your "sand in the crotch" approach. The "crapollas", "you're full of rubishes" etc etc."

        so you are saying I should use four (and three) letter words like many of you (and you in particular often) do like "Bull s" and "shit" and ass instead when summarizing others positions? :rolleyes:

        anyway you responded so fast I hadn't gotten out yet, I'll run this time.. lol
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        • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
          Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

          "You've got a lot of good information, I don't think anybody is saying its because of your SEO views that you get into these fights. Its your "sand in the crotch" approach. The "crapollas", "you're full of rubishes" etc etc."

          so you are saying I should use four (and three) letter words like many of you (and you in particular often) do like "Bull s" and "shit" and ass instead when summarizing others positions? :rolleyes:

          anyway you responded so fast I hadn't gotten out yet, I'll run this time.. lol
          I don't usually say those things, they are saved just for you buddy. Plus they usually come at the end of the conversation and not at the beginning.
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  • Profile picture of the author PBScott
    There are always some sick idiots around, don't let a website like that wear on you.
    Interesting to look at their back-links also.
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  • Profile picture of the author trade4861
    Good luck trying to make difference lol. When you got Youtube allowing videos of children being shot in head...un filtered in HD quality video....and they run ads on the video...do you really think Google will care. They wont remove the site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
    Hey Don

    Reporting to Google does not shut down websites so I don't think that was what nest was calling for. Promoting idiots does no one any good so it would be more an issue of ranking. Still the sites themselves don't do anything to tell us who they are. The vast majority of idiots nowadays go online to be idiots because their identities here are hidden.
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    • Profile picture of the author nest28
      Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

      Well I don't know that they can automatically filter out sites with hate words. A lot of Rap lyric pages would go for example plus theres dictionaries and discussions where there might be adult meaningful contributions about racism and words
      Yea I should have thought about that.

      Originally Posted by dburk View Post

      Hi nest28,

      How are we going to know who the haters are, unless we allow them to speak out?

      While I disagree with people who speak hate, I do not want them silenced, instead I want to know who they are, and what they think, so that I may judge them on their character.

      By all means, call them insensitive ignorant haters, or the scum of the earth, but let's not silence them, else we won't know who to avoid. Let's publicly ridicule them, but let's not shut down their websites. Instead, bring them out into the light of day so that we can publicly belittle them for the fools that they are.
      Well what comes around goes around, if anything I feel sorry for the individual who made the site in the first place. No one filled with that much hate can be happy.

      Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

      Hey Don

      The vast majority of idiots nowadays go online to be idiots because their identities here are hidden.
      That sums up 90% of internet bullies,racists,tough guys etc. These same guys don't have anything to say in person.
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  • Profile picture of the author Icematikx
    It might just be me, but growing up playing a fair few MMORPG's such as WoW, I have grown to completely not be offended by anything. I have seen men's heads hacked off by samurai swords in Afghan. I have seen absolutely everything this world has to offer in terms of negativity. The use of "harsh" words is ridiculous. I hear people call white people "honkeys", and I can't for the life of my understand why any white person would be offended by that. I'm certainly not.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      Originally Posted by Icematikx View Post

      It might just be me, but growing up playing a fair few MMORPG's such as WoW, I have grown to completely not be offended by anything.

      Aint this the same guy that was confessing to stealing and selling other peoples content back to them and with that fake screenshot thread?

      http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...nt-lolwat.html


      Guess the screen shot one got deleted
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      • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
        Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

        Aint this the same guy that was confessing to stealing and selling other peoples content back to them and with that fake screenshot thread?
        Not sure what that thread has to do with his comments here.

        Anyway...

        Google has addressed this issue a few years ago.

        Google: An explanation of our search results

        "The beliefs and preferences of those who work at Google, as well as the opinions of the general public, do not determine or impact our search results. Individual citizens and public interest groups do periodically urge us to remove particular links or otherwise adjust search results. Although Google reserves the right to address such requests individually, Google views the comprehensiveness of our search results as an extremely important priority. Accordingly, we do not remove a page from our search results simply because its content is unpopular or because we receive complaints concerning it. We will, however, remove pages from our results if we believe the page (or its site) violates our Webmaster Guidelines, if we believe we are required to do so by law, or at the request of the webmaster who is responsible for the page."

        I'm sure that many people have already complained about that site so I'd be surprised if they do anything about it.
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        • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
          Originally Posted by Marc_L View Post

          Not sure what that thread has to do with his comments here.
          lol, he always gots MA on his mind

          anyway connection is easy... he who lies can lie about anything

          How ever it should not be Google their job to determine what should be on the internet and what not.
          Don't think that was ever the issue its more about what it is ranking for in Google.

          People - Google can't remove sites from the internet. Thats not even the issue
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          • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
            Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

            lol, he always gots MA on his mind

            anyway connection is easy... he who lies can lie about anything



            Don't think that was ever the issue its more about what it is ranking for in Google.

            People - Google can't remove sites from the internet. Thats not even the issue
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          • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
            Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

            lol, he always gots MA on his mind
            Not really.
            anyway connection is easy... he who lies can lie about anything
            So he is easily offended? What's he lying about here? Just looks like you're throwing mud.
            Don't think that was ever the issue its more about what it is ranking for in Google.

            People - Google can't remove sites from the internet. Thats not even the issue
            They have already spoken to that. They don't usually penalize sites because the content is offensive.
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            • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
              Originally Posted by Marc_L View Post

              Not really.

              So he is easily offended? What's he lying about here?
              Thats easy. People always say words don't offend them and they would let it go when its not directed at them. Tell em about their mom and all of a sudden the truth comes out that words can offend them.


              Just looks like you're throwing mud.
              Looks like someone is still upset about previous debates they lost.

              They have already spoken to that. They don't usually penalize sites because the content is offensive.
              Garbage. go ahead and rank a site in a mainline serp and then put some four letter words, odes to hitler and a few porn shots and see if they won't penalize it.
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              • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
                Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                Thats easy. People always say words don't offend them and they would let it go when its not directed at them. Tell em about their mom and all of a sudden the truth comes out that words can offend them.
                That's actually true. I guess the other thread, as far as I am concerned, was needed to express this point.
                Looks like someone is still upset about previous debates they lost.[/QUOTE]
                If by "lost" you mean stopped posting first then fine.
                Garbage. go ahead and rank a site in a mainline serp and then put some four letter words, odes to hitler and a few porn shots and see if they won't penalize it.
                No shit. That isn't what I'm talking about.

                Yeah if you rank for "crochet patterns" then change the content to include hitler porn the site is going to tank.

                Google has explicitly addressed this point and I linked to it a few posts up.

                "The beliefs and preferences of those who work at Google, as well as the opinions of the general public, do not determine or impact our search results."
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                • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                  Originally Posted by Marc_L View Post

                  No shit. That isn't what I'm talking about.
                  too bad...who cares?....thats what the OP was talking about. NO one was saying that if you go searching for the N word you shouldn't get results but yeah if you search for keywords with black people then Google should not have that LSI contexted with The N word.

                  its a flaw in relevancy. I would not expect to do a search for what native italian's do for a past time and expect results about the mafia. Or search for what germans like and see result about Nazism or killing jews of looking up modern native indian artists and find results about scalping.

                  If I want to go looking for those terms then fine but Google should not be in the business of referencing those stereotypes in ways that perpetuate them.
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                  • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
                    Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                    too bad...who cares?....thats what the OP was talking about.
                    He was talking about a site that was ranking for a term it probably shouldn't be ranking for. You were talking about ranking a site for "mainline" keywords then changing the content.
                    NO one was saying that if you go searching for the N word you shouldn't get results but yeah if you search for keywords with black people then Google should not have that LSI contexted with The N word. its a flaw in relevancy.
                    Its all about the relevancy. Is it a relevant search result? No. Thats why it should be different. Not because it is offensive. Although I'm not so sure they are exchanging "n*****" with "black people" as black people is referenced on that page.

                    I think we're basically saying the same thing though.

                    I'm trying to address the OP when the he says this...

                    "Well I suppose I should have done that instead of just complaining about it lol. But no seriously thanx, something like that shouldn't be allowed on the net and I report it too."

                    Looks like he wants it gone because it is offensive and not because it is irrelevant to the search. Plus you take the title of the thread and its pretty clear it isn't because of relevancy that he thinks it should go bye bye.
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                    • Profile picture of the author nest28
                      Originally Posted by Dayes View Post


                      Obviously you searched for that phrase to obtain some comical results, so really, lighten up, it's the internet.
                      Are you serious? How does searching "why do black people" equal me looking for a racist site? I was actually about to research something about black people when I came across that racist piece of crap site.

                      Oh and lighten up, have you ever read up on what happen to blacks in the 30s,40,50,60, and 70s or even before than? You want me to read a site that says Nig***mania, best Nig*** jokes and be ok with that, where do you people come from.

                      Originally Posted by ilikepie View Post



                      As others also mentioned when you look for trouble you will find trouble, dont be surprised to find it.
                      Again, how was I looking for trouble?



                      I can't believe that it's been implied that I went looking for a racist site, like I just go around searching the internet for hate sites or something. And than you have people who say there's nothing wrong with this site, who says this site is not spam, it's worse than spam.

                      You mean to tell me that it's cool in most of you guys eye to see a hate site show up in relation to "Blacks" but get upset when the wrong site ranks for "make money online".


                      As far as this goes "The beliefs and preferences of those who work at Google, as well as the opinions of the general public, do not determine or impact our search results" all Google does is shape the SERPs based on their preferences, so Amazon sites, EMDs, MFA are all bad in Googles eyes but a hate site is just fine.
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                    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                      Originally Posted by Marc_L View Post

                      He was talking about a site that was ranking for a term it probably shouldn't be ranking for. You were talking about ranking a site for "mainline" keywords then changing the content.
                      Nope. We were talking about the same thing. The mainline thing was an example of a condition where they may very well put in a penalty. Just because someone uses an example does not mean they are changing the subject to the example. sorry.

                      Looks like he wants it gone because it is offensive and not because it is irrelevant to the search. Plus you take the title of the thread and its pretty clear it isn't because of relevancy that he thinks it should go bye bye.
                      They are the same thing in this situation plus read the OP its quite clear he was surprised by the results so clearly he did NOT find it relevant to his search.
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                      • Profile picture of the author nest28
                        Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                        Nope. We were talking about the same thing. The mainline thing was an example of a condition where they may very well put in a penalty. Just because someone uses an example does not mean they are changing the subject to the example. sorry.



                        They are the same thing in this situation plus read the OP its quite clear he was surprised by the results so clearly he did NOT find it relevant to his search.
                        Don't even waste your time. Can't believe I would even have to convince internet marketers that this site is just wrong.
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                        • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                          ROFL it doesn't even surprise me though Nest. I wouldn't get too upset (seriously I AM chuckling as I write this). You know in the not too distant future there will be an algo change that gets them cursing and fuming about what sites rank over them in their serps.

                          Just make sure you have your popcorn because I am just going to laugh and laugh (between the popcorn that is).
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                          • Profile picture of the author nest28
                            Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                            ROFL it doesn't even surprise me though Nest. I wouldn't get too upset (seriously I AM chuckling as I write this). You know in the not too distant future there will be an algo change that gets them cursing and fuming about what sites rank over them in their serps.

                            Just make sure you have your popcorn because I am just going to laugh and laugh (between the popcorn that is).
                            Exactly, threads full of "why is this site ranking with bad content", "why is this site ranking for make money online", "has Google lost it, why is this site out ranking mine" etc.


                            It's laughable like you said.
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                            • Profile picture of the author Enfusia
                              Your peace and happiness don't come from an internet site.
                              If you let it cause negative emotions inside of you then they have done their intended damage and they have spread their disease of hate because now you hate. And once you hate them for any reason how is it that you are better than they?

                              As soon as you hate they just kicked your a$$ because you are now one of them!

                              Don't take this next statement wrong:
                              "There are two fools born every minute. If you join in with them I guess that makes you three!"

                              I mean that statement as a positive example of what not to do.

                              No one has the power to make you anything, whether that be mad, depressed, happy, glad or sad. The power to make you what you are rests solely with you.

                              Just rise above them. Never argue with idiots, they will bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.

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                      • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
                        Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                        Nope. We were talking about the same thing. The mainline thing was an example of a condition where they may very well put in a penalty. Just because someone uses an example does not mean they are changing the subject to the example. sorry.
                        LOL, Nobody is talking about your example. Its what is called a red herring.

                        Furthermore what your example tried to answer wasn't what I was saying. The OP called for deindexation and penalties which is what I have been talking about.

                        Your example would be true if you rank for a term like health insurance then change the content to something totally irrelevant like basketball books. The site would tank for the health insurance term quickly.

                        They are the same thing in this situation plus read the OP its quite clear he was surprised by the results so clearly he did NOT find it relevant to his search.
                        He may have been surprised but if it wasn't so offensive he never would have made this thread calling for the site to be deindexed.

                        My point is that Google isn't going to be deindexing sites because some people find it offensive.
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                        • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                          Originally Posted by Marc_L View Post

                          The OP called for deindexation and penalties which is what I have been talking about.
                          read the OP and see the word "or" - so the truth is he called for a range of things not simply just deindexing

                          Plus I don't think MA thinks the site should be deindexed either.
                          Don't speak for MA he might disappoint you. Way I see it if Google can deindex one of my sites for linking to another of my sites (like in my network) then it wouldn't be so bad if they decided not to list a site like that.

                          However truth is I don't care enough. MIke's a big boy and has seen and heard stuff like that before. I just don't think I should have to see it if thats not what I went looking for which is Nest's point.

                          On a related but more Seo interest note. Bing seems to have a better algo with those kind of questions. Its not just the offensiveness - the results seem to be more on target even when the questions themselves are offensive (but what people are looking for)
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                          • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
                            Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                            read the OP and see the word "or" - so the truth is he called for a range of things not simply just deindexing
                            So what? I'm arguing against the deindexing portion of the OP.

                            I think it can be reported, and even penalized for the search terms where it isn't relevant. I don't think it should be deindexed because the content is offensive.
                            However truth is I don't care enough. MIke's a big boy and has seen and heard stuff like that before. I just don't think I should have to see it if thats not what I went looking for which is Nest's point.
                            So I was right.

                            The site shouldn't rank for the terms it was ranking for. I agree. Bad relevancy.
                            On a related but more Seo interest note. Bing seems to have a better algo with those kind of questions. Its not just the offensiveness - the results seem to be more on target even when the questions themselves are offensive (but what people are looking for)
                            Yeah, you're right.

                            The term "black jokes" google gives us number 1 the site Ernest saw. While Bing ranks it 10th. The N word was only mentioned 10 times on the bing first ranked site while 82 times on the google no 1 result. It could mean something or it could mean nothing. lol
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  • Profile picture of the author DavidAllenNeron
    They also own

    ***.net ***.us ***.org

    but honestly there are so many "hate" or bigoted sites out there you could make a full time job out of reporting them all.

    You aren't alone man.
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnInNewJersey
      Originally Posted by DavidAllenNeron View Post

      They also own

      ***.net ***.us ***.org

      but honestly there are so many "hate" or bigoted sites out there you could make a full time job out of reporting them all.

      You aren't alone man.
      Damn right.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dayes
    They won't do anything about it. The site, while obnoxious, is not webspam.

    Obviously you searched for that phrase to obtain some comical results, so really, lighten up, it's the internet.
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnInNewJersey
      Originally Posted by Dayes View Post

      They won't do anything about it. The site, while obnoxious, is not webspam.

      Obviously you searched for that phrase to obtain some comical results, so really, lighten up, it's the internet.
      Obviously easy for you to say.

      "Walk a mile...." Never mind.
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  • Profile picture of the author ilikepie
    I agree on the fact that such websites shouldnt exist.

    How ever it should not be Google their job to determine what should be on the internet and what not.

    As others also mentioned when you look for trouble you will find trouble, dont be surprised to find it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
      Originally Posted by ilikepie View Post

      I agree on the fact that such websites shouldnt exist.
      Why? I don't like the site either but where would shutting down sites we don't like end?
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      • Profile picture of the author ilikepie
        Originally Posted by Marc_L View Post

        Why? I don't like the site either but where would shutting down sites we don't like end?
        You imply something I did not said.

        I only said that such websites shouldn't exist that does not mean I want to remove it or what so ever. In fact if you didn't read so selective you would also have read that I don't like the suggesting of people that Google should police the internet.
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        • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
          Originally Posted by ilikepie View Post

          You imply something I did not said.

          I only said that such websites shouldn't exist that does not mean I want to remove it or what so ever. In fact if you didn't read so selective you would also have read that I don't like the suggesting of people that Google should police the internet.
          My bad then.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
    ROFL......I got to say it is hilarious to see marketers imply Google should just leave the site be and not take any action against hate sites by demoting them in the results (like the OP stated)

    when they are the same ones that whine like little babies after algo updates because sites in their serp are ranking with bad content.

    hypocrites much??
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  • Profile picture of the author nest28
    The site adds zero value to the internet point blank, for that reason alone it should be de-indexed. Nice to know where a lot of people stand though.
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    • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
      Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

      The site adds zero value to the internet point blank, for that reason alone it should be de-indexed. Nice to know where a lot of people stand though.
      Dude, I hate the site but what if somebody finds your site offensive? Should google de-index it? Plus I don't think MA thinks the site should be deindexed either.
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      • Profile picture of the author nest28
        Originally Posted by Marc_L View Post

        Dude, I hate the site but what if somebody finds your site offensive? Should google de-index it? Plus I don't think MA thinks the site should be deindexed either.
        You say it like I'm the only black person, wait like I'm only person that would find this site offensive. It's not my opinion that the site is trash it's a fact. Show 10,000 African Americans this site and I bet each one would find it offensive.


        I could see if I came across a website saying Brad Pitt was the best actor alive and I was like oh hell no, de-index this at once, like some nut job.

        I came across a hateful, ignorant site that adds no value to the net. This site would not be missed, except by some racist a-hole.


        Either way I'm done. The subject is to close to home and I rather just drop it. I personally don't have anything against you or anyone else, just wanted to share something I came across, that's all.
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        • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
          Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

          You say it like I'm the only black person, wait like I'm only person that would find this site offensive. It's not my opinion that the site is trash it's a fact. Show 10,000 African Americans this site and I bet each one would find it offensive.
          I find the site offensive so obviously I don't think you're alone. The site is a piece of shit. I wish it didn't exist.

          Google apparently isn't going to be deindexing sites that most people find offensive as they stated in their statement I posted earlier.

          I came across a hateful, ignorant site that adds no value to the net. This site would not be missed, except by some racist a-hole.
          There are tons of sites that wouldn't be missed but who is going to decide what won't be missed and what can therefore be de-indexed? How many people have to be offended before sites get removed? 51%? 75%? 90%? 99%?
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          • Profile picture of the author nest28
            Originally Posted by Marc_L View Post

            I find the site offensive so obviously I don't think you're alone. The site is a piece of shit. I wish it didn't exist.

            Google apparently isn't going to be deindexing sites that most people find offensive as they stated in their statement I posted earlier.


            There are tons of sites that wouldn't be missed but who is going to decide what won't be missed and what can therefore be de-indexed? How many people have to be offended before sites get removed? 51%? 75%? 90%? 99%?
            I'll just end it here, we both agree the site is trash and I do understand the point you are trying to make as I'm sure you get what I'm saying. No need for long debate. We'll both forget about this whole thing and be back to working on our current projects by morning.

            Nice talking to you Marc, have good night.
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    • Profile picture of the author ThePromotionalGuy
      Ernest,
      Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

      The site adds zero value to the internet point blank, for that reason alone it should be de-indexed. Nice to know where a lot of people stand though.
      Don't take this personal, but dude focus on running your race. You have to much value to bring to the marketplace. Successful entrepreneurs don't look to the left or the right. They focus on the prize.

      When you find stupid sites like this and it gets you worked up then your success suffers. Issues are the demons we have to fight off. They are the things that hold us back. You know what gets you fired up and will push your buttons, that's why you direct your steps in a different direction.
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      • Profile picture of the author nest28
        Originally Posted by ThePromotionalGuy View Post

        Ernest,

        Don't take this personal, but dude focus on running your race. You have to much value to bring to the marketplace. Successful entrepreneurs don't look to the left or the right. They focus on the prize.

        When you find stupid sites like this and it gets you worked up then your success suffers. Issues are the demons we have to fight off. They are the things that hold us back. You know what gets you fired up and will push your buttons, that's why you direct your steps in a different direction.
        Thanx you are so right. I really didn't mean for this thread to turn out like this or to be still talking about the matter this long. I forgot wth it was I was looking for in the first place lol.

        Either way if I was focus on business and not some garbage site I wouldn't even have made this thread.
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      • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
        In the entire time you took to write that were you focusing on your own success?

        Originally Posted by ThePromotionalGuy View Post

        Ernest,

        Don't take this personal, but dude focus on running your race. You have to much value to bring to the marketplace. Successful entrepreneurs don't look to the left or the right. They focus on the prize.

        When you find stupid sites like this and it gets you worked up then your success suffers. Issues are the demons we have to fight off. They are the things that hold us back. You know what gets you fired up and will push your buttons, that's why you direct your steps in a different direction.
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        • Profile picture of the author ThePromotionalGuy
          Mike,
          Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

          In the entire time you took to write that were you focusing on your own success?
          It's always interesting reading how young people try to bait others with anger questions.
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          • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
            Originally Posted by ThePromotionalGuy View Post

            Mike,

            It's always interesting reading how young people try to bait others with anger questions.

            NO anger here. I just don't see how having one discussion on a forum suddenly equates to you taking time away from your success and wonder how you can justify that thesis by in fact taking the time as you have to respond in this thread and now by displaying that you are in fact still following it.

            For everyone who wishes the site would be taken down
            what is it with people on this board? Again Google is not capable of taking down a site however they can and do everyday control where sites rank.
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            • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
              Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

              NO anger here. I just don't see how having one discussion on a forum suddenly equates to you taking time away from your success and wonder how you can justify that thesis by in fact taking the time as you have to respond in this thread and now by displaying that you are in fact still following it.
              Case in point.:rolleyes:

              The advice given by ThePromotionalGuy was well taken by the one he gave it to. Leave it at that.
              what is it with people on this board? Again Google is not capable of taking down a site however they can and do everyday control where sites rank.
              They can deindex a site just fine which is basically the same thing. OP suggested deindexing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
    You can wait all you want but you'll never see me complaining about sites above me. Better get a big ass bucket of popcorn.

    Let me just say that I don't like that site. I don't like that it exists, I don't like anything about it. I don't like that it ranks for those terms. I don't like the people running that piece of shit site.

    But I also don't think Google should be in the editorial business when it comes to speech in their search results. Apparently they agree.
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    • Profile picture of the author nest28
      Originally Posted by Marc_L View Post



      But I also don't think Google should be in the editorial business when it comes to speech in their search results. Apparently they agree.
      Is is logical to remove a MFA site or a Amazon review site but keep this one? Isn't that the same thing, they de-index site they don't like all the time.

      They play editor with every update.
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      • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
        Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

        Is is logical to remove a MFA site or a Amazon review site but keep this one? Isn't that the same thing, they de-index site they don't like all the time.

        They play editor with every update.
        That's a good point but my guess is that those amazon/adsense sites are somehow violating the Google Webmaster Guidelines not because of the point of view of the sites.
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    I for one don't care what race Mike is, I judge him solely on the basis of his arguments.
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  • Profile picture of the author TryBPO
    For everyone who wishes the site would be taken down because they don't agree with the horribly racist things said on the site...

    I don't think any of us would want an "internet" that has sites taken down simply because another person or group of people don't like the views or opinions being expressed. In fact, that sounds like a particularly awful place, IMO.

    The problem is this: Who gets to determine what is allowed and what is not?
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    • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
      Originally Posted by TryBPO View Post

      For everyone who wishes the site would be taken down because they don't agree with the horribly racist things said on the site...

      I don't think any of us would want an "internet" that has sites taken down simply because another person or group of people don't like the views or opinions being expressed. In fact, that sounds like a particularly awful place, IMO.

      The problem is this: Who gets to determine what is allowed and what is not?
      This was my point, you probably said it better.:p
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by TryBPO View Post

      For everyone who wishes the site would be taken down because they don't agree with the horribly racist things said on the site...

      I don't think any of us would want an "internet" that has sites taken down simply because another person or group of people don't like the views or opinions being expressed. In fact, that sounds like a particularly awful place, IMO.

      The problem is this: Who gets to determine what is allowed and what is not?
      Exactly!

      Doesn't matter If anyone likes a website. Even If for some reason Google dropped that site in the SERPs, doesn't matter there's only a few hundred/thousand/whatever... similar sites.

      What are they going to do spend the rest of their lives policing the internet for the better of mankind? That should last about an hour, until they get bored with reporting sites.
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      • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
        Originally Posted by yukon View Post

        Exactly!

        Doesn't matter If anyone likes a website. Even If for some reason Google dropped that site in the SERPs, doesn't matter there's only a few hundred/thousand/whatever... similar sites.

        What are they going to do spend the rest of their lives policing the internet for the better of mankind? That should last about an hour, until they get bored with reporting sites.
        Could you imagine how messy it would get when religious sites start getting reported by other religion's adherents?
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        • Profile picture of the author nik0
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          Originally Posted by Marc_L View Post

          Could you imagine how messy it would get when religious sites start getting reported by other religion's adherents?
          Religions should be forbidden by law.
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          • Profile picture of the author dreamtoreality
            Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

            Religions should be forbidden by law.
            Oh sh!t, just wait to see what you've started with that one. Hope Mike doesn't see that statement.
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          • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
            Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

            Religions should be forbidden by law.
            LOL

            Didn't know you were a fascist.
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      • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
        Originally Posted by yukon View Post

        What are they going to do spend the rest of their lives policing the internet for the better of mankind? That should last about an hour, until they get bored with reporting sites.
        whose the "they" that will be reporting sites Yuke? You are so full of nonsense. the op didn't go out looking for that kind of site to police it. he found it searching for something unrelated and like an idiot of similar persuasion you claim people objecting to the n word are jut being too sensitive and "IF" they think it is offensive then they need not visit - but thats the whole point. the OP didn't ask for that result and was not going a search for that..

        and no as has been shown google just has to get better with their algo there because (and I know this will hurt you) Bing already does a better job just using their algo there.
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        • Profile picture of the author yukon
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          Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

          whose the "they" that will be reporting sites Yuke? You are so full of nonsense. the op didn't go out looking for that kind of site to police it.
          If you stopped writing your life story long enough to read the top of the 1st page you wouldn't be asking silly questions.

          Keep up with the class.
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  • Profile picture of the author williamsam
    yes agree with you dude ! this kind of spammy url's should be de-indexed from SERP but all in Team Google's hands so lets jst see what happens
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  • Profile picture of the author YellowGreenMedia
    So what if a group of people doesn't like a site from another group of people, should Google de-index those sites to? I really don't care for hate sites but i have a bigger problem with censorship done by a commercial company....

    If you don't like it, don't click on it, you do know that you do not have the right not to be offended right? You were obviously searching for it, or OP.... Are you really that naive that you thought you would only see nice happy websites in the listing when searching for "why do black people" com on man, you cant be that naive right?

    And writing about hating a particular group of people is not against Googles guidelines, and again i have no interests in these type of sites what so ever their pieces of shit, but still, i do not want them deleted or de-inedexd solely based on offending a group of people. That is a slippery slope you don't wanna step on imho.
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    That IS a terrible site, but there are millions of terrible sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author GGpaul
    Nest28, want to know an easier solution?

    whois that site. Get his contact, go to his house and show him wassup .
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  • Profile picture of the author dreamtoreality
    Let me first say that while I in no way agree with the site I will always defend the right to free speech. Society would be a much worse place if everything was censored.

    Can we please think about this logically and not allow bias to get in the way. Perhaps think about this from a user or internet marketer point of view.

    I don't place blame at the feet of the owner of the site (well yeah I do but he seems to be set in his ways. There's no changing that).

    I also don't place blame at the feet of Google. Their job is to deliver search results based on what the user is looking for. If someone is searching for a hate site and that website comes up, then the user is satisfied. Relevancy is a tricky one, but if you type in "why do black people" in Google the suggestions are mostly stereotypical, bordering on racist so that site coming up first isn't as much of a surprise as I first thought. From a SEO point of view there must be some reason why the site is ranking for that search phrase. Is it right? No, but what Google ends up showing, whether they want to or not (algorithm) is down to them and not any of us.

    I blame the hosting company. Don't allow any hate sites to be hosted and you won't see them in the serps.

    A few people may see this the wrong way and call me racist BUT I would feel offended if that site was deindexed. It comes down to free speech and Google giving people what they want. Racism is wrong but it isn't illegal. I also believe that hate sites are legal. Child pornography, on the other hand, is illegal and should disappear completely from the SERPs. It's a question of legality.

    I think that everyone could benefit from reading this page: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/remove-page-from-google/
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  • Profile picture of the author hamburglar
    This discussion definitely got outta hand fast because of the content.

    Welcome to the internet. You can find a lot of dirty shit with first page results. Your intention and that keyword results were mismatched. It happens.

    Outside of race, this conversation becomes about policing the internet. You think its GOOGLE's job to POLICE/CENSOR the results that are displayed. But is it? Ref: British Politicians: There's Child Porn On The Internet And Google Needs To Do Something About It | Techdirt
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    • Profile picture of the author nest28
      Originally Posted by YellowGreenMedia View Post

      So what if a group of people doesn't like a site from another group of people, should Google de-index those sites to?

      If you don't like it, don't click on it, you do know that you do not have the right not to be offended right? You were obviously searching for it,
      I really don't understand how there are more people in this thread trying to blame me for coming across that site or that there are people who believe it should be there in first place. I'm black, wtf, you mean to tell me I can research my own people without coming across a piece of sh*t site like that one.


      Than people talking about cencorship and freedom of speech and how Google shouldn't get rid of this site. So I live in a world where most people would rather have a hate site show than a MFA site.


      My only mistake was saying something to this crowd, I know damn well anybody in there right mind would have a problem with this type of site.


      I could see if I type in "Nig*** jokes" or "why do Nig***s" but I didn't I type in "why do black people" it has nothing to do with being naive. African Americans and Nig*** are two different breed believe. But for some other reason some people think were all the same.

      Our president is a african american, and the coolest president you ever saw in your life, he ain't no Nig***.

      Originally Posted by GGpaul View Post

      Nest28, want to know an easier solution?

      whois that site. Get his contact, go to his house and show him wassup .
      Man that fool ain't trynig see me or anybody else in person paul, that's why it's also easy for lot of these forum members to say what they say.


      90% WOULDN'T EVEN VOICE THEIR OPINION IN PERSON, TO SCARED TO EVEN SHOW THEIR REAL FACES ON FORUM. I holla at you on FB tho.
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

        Our president is a african american, and the coolest president you ever saw in your life, he ain't no Nig***.
        His mother was white & he was supposedly born in Honolulu, Hawaii, not Africa.
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        • Profile picture of the author nest28
          Originally Posted by yukon View Post

          His mother was white & he was supposedly born in Honolulu, Hawaii, not Africa.
          So what, me, my family, my friends and every other black person I know wasn't born in Africa, but were still African Americans.


          Anyways, I'm done with this issue. I wasn't angry when I made the post, I simply stated that I found an offensive site. I figured if plenty of people here have problems with EMD, MFA, and crappy Amazon reviews that they would agree that this one should not exist. I was wrong, end of story.


          Edit: Also as Mike has stated I doubt Google would want this site ranking number one for anything related to black people, since African Americans (black people) and Nig*** are two different things.
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          • Profile picture of the author yukon
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            Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

            So what, me, my family, my friends and every other black person I know wasn't born in Africa, but were still African Americans.
            I have ancestors from Ireland, I don't go around saying I'm Irish American, I was born in the US.






            Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

            Anyways, I'm done with this issue. I wasn't angry when I made the post, I simply stated that I found an offensive site. I figured if plenty of people here have problems with EMD, MFA, and crappy Amazon reviews that they would agree that this one should not exist. I was wrong, end of story.
            I'm not angry either, I don't care If the site ranks or not.

            My point was the keyword phrase you searched for in OP is setup to return offensive web pages regardless what race is switched out in the keyword phrase.

            I'm not sure why you would be searching that keyword phrase in the first place.







            Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

            Edit: Also as Mike has stated I doubt Google would want this site ranking number one for anything related to black people, since African Americans (black people) and Nig*** are two different things.
            I guess If that site drops in the SERPs a few hundred/thousand/whatever sites will move up to try & take it's place for that keyword phrase, Google isn't going to ever show a blank page on the SERPs.

            You can search for the worst things known to mankind (ex: Auschwitz) & you'll still get SERPs full of relevant web pages. Google knows relevancy, that's what Google does, it doesn't matter If the subject is nice, Google will still return pages that they've found to be relevant to the keywords being searched.

            Now If that site you've pointed out made threats, I seriously think Google would obliterate the site on the first manual review following a complaint. If Google didn't take manual action the media would hammer the subject (threats) sort of like the junk Jcpenney links a while back. The media delivers controversy because that's what the public wants, that's what draws traffic, traffic converts into money.
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            • Profile picture of the author nest28
              Originally Posted by yukon View Post

              I have ancestors from Ireland, I don't go around saying I'm Irish American, I was born in the US.










              My point was the keyword phrase you searched for in OP is setup to return offensive web pages regardless what race is switched out in the keyword phrase.

              I'm not sure why you would be searching that keyword phrase in the first place.



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              So you trying to say I can't look up things about my own race? You going ask why a black man was looking up things about his own race. Are you serious? How the hell would I know a hate site would be the first result. And btw when u switch out black with white or Asian no hate sites appear so no it's not the same.
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        • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
          Originally Posted by yukon View Post

          His mother was white & he was supposedly born in Honolulu, Hawaii, not Africa.
          BWAHHAHAHAHAHAHA. ROFl

          Its news to Obama that he is not african american because he was born in the US.

          Keep going Yuke. You are doing a fine job

          no one cares
          Hmmm someone seems to care very deeply about Obama not being classified as an African American though eh?

          So what, me, my family, my friends and every other black person I know wasn't born in Africa, but were still African Americans
          Yuke has spoken Dude. Only African Americans are ones that were born outside the US.

          Comedy hour has begun.

          I'm outta here. Can't work while laughing
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          • Profile picture of the author yukon
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            Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

            Its news to Obama that he is not african american because he was born in the US.
            I guess you have a need for being politically correct. :rolleyes:

            Shallow much?
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        • Profile picture of the author JohnInNewJersey
          Originally Posted by yukon View Post

          His mother was white & he was supposedly born in Honolulu, Hawaii, not Africa.
          June 10, 2013

          And it is STILL "supposedly."

          Don't say it John. Calm down. Imagine what I am thinking though. :rolleyes:
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      ROFl... this i hilarious they are still at it.

      Originally Posted by YellowGreenMedia View Post

      sbut i have a bigger problem with censorship done by a commercial company....
      No you don't I have seen you complain about how and where Google ranks sites. Frankly I have seen a bunch of you directly call for "censorship" when you don't rank in a serp and another site who you don't think is worthy does. It happens after EVERY update. Thats what makes this so funny.

      Are you really that naive that you thought you would only see nice happy websites in the listing when searching for "why do black people" com on man, you cant be that naive right?
      Bing refutes you and proves the OP is not being naive. You can do the same search on Bing and get none of that. The whole censorship thing is a total fail. You are granted free speech not that your free speech be promoted, advertised or listed for free. Following that argument Newspapers are censoring hate groups for not running ads for them, Radio station are censoring by not promoting Nazis and television stations are censoring Islamic terrorists by refusing to run their videos.

      Originally Posted by GGpaul View Post

      Nest28, want to know an easier solution?

      whois that site. Get his contact, go to his house and show him wassup .
      Despite the claims by various people I find it very unlikely Nest is that mad. He posted an experience he had searching. hardly means he is seething or have had your buttons pushed so much he now no longer can be successful :rolleyes:

      Originally Posted by dreamtoreality View Post

      think about this from a user or internet marketer point of view.
      LOL we are. Wait until the next algo update and see people crying all over the place about sites they don;t think should rank. We had a pile of this year and ton loads las year with the first Penguin. Again thats what makes this soooo hilarious. It also means I will have alot of fun when the next algo update takes place.

      I also don't place blame at the feet of Google. Their job is to deliver search results based on what the user is looking for.
      Its bing's job to do too and they do it fine. The argument that the OP went looking for a hate site is pretty much destroyed by the fact that the same search on Bing does not bring back that site.

      A few people may see this the wrong way and call me racist BUT I would feel offended if that site was deindexed.
      Offended is an interesting choice of words. However see above - the whole censorship thing is just you and others not understanding free speech. Nowhere in free speech are you given any right to have your views promoted by another company.

      I think that everyone could benefit from reading this page: Why Google won’t remove that page you don’t like
      Sorry but this is not a he said she said issue and thats what Cutts references so it has very limited benefit. Again the fact that Bing gives a much better result destroys the argument anyway - they don;t need to manually remove they can do better with relevancy.

      Originally Posted by hamburglar View Post

      Outside of race, this conversation becomes about policing the internet.
      NO this is about Google doing what it ALWAYS does. Choosing sites by their algo to display. IF you call that policing then Google polices every day and every night

      LOL I am going to laugh my head off at the next algo update. Not you personally but this is the same group that called for "Occupy Google", "Boycott Google and use Bing" and cry like babies about how they have been done wrong every time Google updates its "policing" algo.

      and for any real ethical reason? No just because thei crappy sites no longer rank but they found another one that does and still ranks

      Thats what makes all of this soooooo funny
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  • Profile picture of the author nest28
    Mike that's the thing, for some reason they don't see the irony. They complain about a 3 page site with poor content ranking for a high competition keyword but at the same time I show them a hate site and they like oh that's cool, matter fact it's your fault for clicking on it or typing in the phrase that brought you there lol.


    I wasn't even angry at all when I posted the thread, I became a little annoyed once I saw the comments here but nothing more, it just let's me know what type of people I've been dealing with here.


    I'm so glad that most people in the world views aren't this messed up or racism would still be running rampant.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

      Mike that's the thing, for some reason they don't see the irony.
      They will at the next algo update

      I wasn't even angry at all when I posted the thread,
      I figured.....just a more subtle stereotype. If the African American guy points out a wrong related to race its because he is seething, frustrated or crying. Bleh none of the above. Just pointing out a bad serp result. IF you were frustrated after seeing who has been in the white house for the last two terms I would call you a wuss.
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      • Profile picture of the author Kay King
        I show them a hate site
        I was doing research last month and came upon a blog that began with "them white bi***es thing....

        I scrolled down and every article and comment was anti-white in the crudest way. It was hateful - but I didn't see it as a "hate site". I saw it as ignorant people expressing their views - and I expect they would be the first to scream 'racism' if they found a similar blog aimed at them.

        It's a waste of time to become emotionally upset over someone else's stupidity. We can't sort through the sites to limit the ones we don't agree with. We can avoid sites we don't like - we can point out the ignorance of those with such sites - and we can avoid exhibiting the same behavior ourselves.

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        • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
          Originally Posted by dreamtoreality View Post

          I don't get why that destroys the argument.
          Simple... its matter of which one gave the searcher better relevancy. IF one is better then the other one needs to improve. It totally destroys the argument that the OP went looking for it. If he had searched at bing he would not have gotten it. Can't explain it any simpler.

          All Google is doing is crawling and indexing the web.
          Nope thats not all google is doing . Their algo is designed to display relevant searches so they are also ranking sites according to relevance not just indexing them. Herein lies the issue.

          As mentioned, what I believe it comes down to is legality.
          Nope it obviously comes down to relevancy.

          Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

          It's a waste of time to become emotionally upset over someone else's stupidity. We can't sort through the sites to limit the ones we don't agree with
          Kay you are in the SEO section. There have been heated debates on where sites are ranked that have ZERO to do with race (and plenty to with the color green). to me this is a discussion more about relevancy and it is a SEO issue. I can't speak for the OP but I certainly do not believe Google is racist. Its just an interesting look at relevance albeit one that has to do with a touchy subject. Waste for you? Perhaps but you can't speak for everyone as some universal law. As a matter of fact its been highly productive to me. Its not often you see a site ranking that you KNOW google would have preferred it not to - as such it gives a special look at the algo and how it works - Great stuff for a SEO

          As for emotionally upset - you really can't determine emotional states by forum posts. You can try but you can often be wrong. You might swear for example that I am upset but I have not chuckled at a thread more than this one in a LONG time.

          As for the whole anti white sites with hateful posts not being hate sites. Come on --- by that criteria we could all pretend there is no hate speech and no hates sites just people expressing their opinions. Anti any race is a hate site.

          My argument is that I believe in free speech. Always have done, always will do. Which is precisely why I got involved in this debate. You can show me a site with the most scathing, obscene and offensive thoughts about my nationality. While I may disagree with every single word, I won't deny it has a right to exist. At the end of the day, Google has the final say
          Totally irrelevant. Google cannot stop a site from existing. I'm sorry but you are totally and absolutely clueless. Free speech has nothing whatsoever to do with having your site promoted,listed or displayed by another company (Google). Its a TOTALLY rubbish argument.

          Do newspapers violate free speech by choosing not to list Klu klux klan ads? Do many broadcast stations refuse to run hate messages violate free speech? Promotion of free speech in another companies listing is not a free speech principle. You are totally confused.
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          • Profile picture of the author yukon
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            Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

            Simple... its matter of which one gave the searcher better relevancy. IF one is better then the other one needs to improve. It totally destroys the argument that the OP went looking for it. If he had searched at bing he would not have gotten it. Can't explain it any simpler.



            Nope thats not all google is doing . Their algo is designed to display relevant searches so they are also ranking sites according to relevance not just indexing them. Herein lies the issue.



            Nope it obviously comes down to relevancy.



            Kay you are in the SEO section. There have been heated debates on where sites are ranked that have ZERO to do with race (and plenty to with the color green). to me this is a discussion more about relevancy and it is a SEO issue. I can't speak for the OP but I certainly do not believe Google is racist. Its just an interesting look at relevance albeit one that has to do with a touchy subject. Waste for you? Perhaps but you can't speak for everyone as some universal law. As a matter of fact its been highly productive to me. Its not often you see a site ranking that you KNOW google would have preferred it not to - as such it gives a special look at the algo and how it works - Great stuff for a SEO

            As for emotionally upset - you really can't determine emotional states by forum posts. You can try but you can often be wrong. You might swear for example that I am upset but I have not chuckled at a thread more than this one in a LONG time.

            As for the whole anti white sites with hateful posts not being hate sites. Come on --- by that criteria we could all pretend there is no hate speech and no hates sites just people expressing their opinions. Anti any race is a hate site.



            Totally irrelevant. Google cannot stop a site from existing. I'm sorry but you are totally and absolutely clueless. Free speech has nothing whatsoever to do with having your site promoted,listed or displayed by another company (Google). Its a TOTALLY rubbish argument.

            Do newspapers violate free speech by choosing not to list Klu klux klan ads? Do many broadcast stations refuse to run hate messages violate free speech? Promotion of free speech in another companies listing is not a free speech principle. You are totally confused.
            Yea, it's a real mystery why the site is ranking #1 for the phrase OP searched for, the site has 56 internal pages relevant to the search query.

            BIG mystery there.

            Try this search, bozo running upside down on mars, well I'll be, Google returns relevant pages to a silly search query. Amazing!

            Search for keywords that are structured to return offensive pages & you'll see offensive pages. One site down, 4,789,521 sites to go...
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          • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
            Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

            Totally irrelevant. Google cannot stop a site from existing. I'm sorry but you are totally and absolutely clueless. Free speech has nothing whatsoever to do with having your site promoted,listed or displayed by another company (Google). Its a TOTALLY rubbish argument.
            And people wonder why you get into flare ups more often than any other poster here. (they probably don't actually)

            "you are totally and absolutely clueless"?
            "Its a TOTALLY rubbish argument."?:rolleyes:

            The thing is that Google actually agrees with us that the site shouldn't be deindexed because of the content. They believe that the comprehensiveness of their search results is more important than not offending people. I posted their views way back in this thread. If the OP didn't talk about deindexing then nobody else would be talking about it either.
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          • Profile picture of the author dreamtoreality
            Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

            Nope thats not all google is doing . Their algo is designed to display relevant searches so they are also ranking sites according to relevance not just indexing them. Herein lies the issue.

            Nope it obviously comes down to relevancy.

            Totally irrelevant. Google cannot stop a site from existing. I'm sorry but you are totally and absolutely clueless. Free speech has nothing whatsoever to do with having your site promoted,listed or displayed by another company (Google). Its a TOTALLY rubbish argument.

            Do newspapers violate free speech by choosing not to list Klu klux klan ads? Do many broadcast stations refuse to run hate messages violate free speech? Promotion of free speech in another companies listing is not a free speech principle. You are totally confused.
            No, it's not totally irrelevant and it's not a rubbish argument. As I said, I don't agree with the site but I still believe that it has a right to exist. These are two completely different things. It seems as if you're taking what I'm saying the wrong way.

            "Free speech has nothing whatsoever to do with having your site promoted,listed or displayed by another company (Google)."

            What do you know, we agree on something. I know it doesn't. Free speech is that website existing in the first place. As Yukon has already proven by saying that there are 56 internal pages relevant to the search query, there is a reason why the site is being displayed, making your relevancy argument void. No one says that free speech has anything to do with a site being promoted. Free speech is exactly what it says it is. Come on, Mike, it's self explanatory.


            Of course newspapers and broadcast stations aren't going to run hate messages, although it's completely their choice at the end of the day. Things like that need a manual review. It's different with Google, as they crawl and index the web and no one pays Google for the privilege to be listed in the SERPs, excluding sponsored messages of course. Google doesn't filter out content, they simply crawl, index and display it. Even you said that "Google cannot stop a site from existing," so it appears that you agree with my argument.

            Mike, I've been here long enough to know that you love an argument. There is rarely a day that goes by where I haven't seen you arguing with someone. I have no idea why. Maybe you're always bored, maybe you have an inferiority complex. Who knows. You obviously find the site offensive, and for good reason too. I think that everyone who has posted in this thread finds the content disgusting but that isn't what the argument is about.
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            • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
              Originally Posted by dreamtoreality View Post

              No, it's not totally irrelevant and it's not a rubbish argument. As I said, I don As Yukon has already proven by saying that there are 56 internal pages relevant to the search query,.
              Read my post and see the evidence above this post and get back to me with your claim that Yukon has proved anything. He has not proven squat. I look forward to seeing all the mental gymnastics that will ensue trying to escape the evidence.

              As for trying to make this about me. Feel free. Yes there are quite a few people who are angered by my positions - in regard to seo, in regard to calling out crappy SEO that lives and breathes here and other issues but for everyone of you complaining I get two and three Pms thanking me and my public thanks speak to that.

              Besides choose your threads better to complain about me and what I should and should not post and what positions I should take and not argue against. You end up coming across very hypocritical for people arguing that a hate site should rank well on Google. Shouldn't you be promoting my point of view and the right to express it how I choose instead of complaining against it?

              Or do you only care about promoting free speech as long as it does not personally insult you? Thats interesting.

              Anyway I'm out. I'll just look on and smile quietly while you all either scatter from the evidence just presented or make an even more interesting argument that you support Google in it.
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              • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
                Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                Read my post and see the evidence above this post and get back to me with your claim that Yukon has proved anything. He has not proven squat. I look forward to seeing all the mental gymnastics that will ensue trying to escape the evidence.
                The N word isn't getting relevancy for "black people" so that isn't going to help you for that serp.
                As for trying to make this about me. Feel free. Yes there are quite a few people who are angered by my positions - in regard to seo, in regard to calling out crappy SEO that lives and breathes here and other issues but for everyone of you complaining I get two and three Pms thanking me and my public thanks speak to that.
                You've got a lot of good information, I don't think anybody is saying its because of your SEO views that you get into these fights. Its your "sand in the crotch" approach. The "crapollas", "you're full of rubishes" etc etc.
                Besides choose your threads better to complain about me and what I should and should not post and what positions I should take and not argue against. You end up coming across very hypocritical for people arguing that a hate site should rank well on Google. Shouldn't you be promoting my point of view and the right to express it how I choose instead of complaining against it?
                If the owner of that site was in this thread I would be trying to convince him that he's wrong. While agreeing that he has the right to say what he wants to say. Free speech isn't equal to accepting everybody's views and not trying to convince them that they are wrong.
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                • Profile picture of the author dreamtoreality
                  Originally Posted by Marc_L View Post

                  If the owner of that site was in this thread I would be trying to convince him that he's wrong. While agreeing that he has the right to say what he wants to say.
                  Thank you. This is dead on and what we're all trying to get across. However, it seems to be lost on some people.
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                  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
                    Is the site in question offensive and downright ignorant? Absolutely. Should it be booted from Google's index? No. It's ignorant. It is clearly run by a complete jackass. But unless they are actively promoting violence against a race of people, I don't think Google should be censoring them.

                    I think the Westboro Baptist jackasses are about the most offensive group of people I have ever seen in my life. Unfortunately, they have every right to spew their nonsense. Talk about offensive though... their freaking website is godhatesfags .com. Cannot get much more offensive than that, can you?

                    Should they be removed from the index? Nope. That is not Google's job.

                    Do I wish a meteor would fall on their compound and wipe them all out? Absolutely.
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                    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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                      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

                      their freaking website is godhatesfags .com. Cannot get much more offensive than that, can you?
                      Lol pretty spot on, read the bible and see for yourself.

                      ps: No I do not agree with the content lol
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              • Profile picture of the author dreamtoreality
                Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                Read my post and see the evidence above this post and get back to me with your claim that Yukon has proved anything. He has not proven squat. I look forward to seeing all the mental gymnastics that will ensue trying to escape the evidence.
                No mental gymnastics here. I didn't know that Google treats black and the n-word as the same thing. You can take that up with Google. However, if this is the case then it seems that Google is displaying relevant results. Irrelevant results appearing has been your argument all along, which you yourself have just proved isn't what's happening with Google.

                Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                You end up coming across very hypocritical for people arguing that a hate site should rank well on Google.
                You're taking this out of context. When I read that it looks as if you're saying that a hate site deserves (should) rank well. It comes back to relevancy. No one is saying that a hate site should rank well. What everyone is saying is that a hate site will rank well if it's based on relevancy in the SERPs.

                Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                Besides choose your threads better to complain about me and what I should and should not post and what positions I should take and not argue against. You end up coming across very hypocritical for people arguing that a hate site should rank well on Google. Shouldn't you be promoting my point of view and the right to express it how I choose instead of complaining against it?
                It comes back to those two words - free speech. I still don't think you've grasped the concept. I have a right to say what I want, you have a right to say what you want, and we both will. That's the definition in its simplest form.
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              • Profile picture of the author dreamtoreality
                Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                I look forward to seeing all the mental gymnastics that will ensue trying to escape the evidence.
                Mike, to borrow your phrase, I look forward to seeing all the mental gymnastics that will ensue trying to escape the evidence. See post #119.

                It appears that the vast majority agree with the site's right to exist, even though they are strongly against its content. As you're African American, the site has clearly and understandably struck a nerve. I don't blame you. However, I'm wondering what your response would have been if the site in question was about Asians, Latin Americans, Jewish people etc. Would you honestly have been as worked up?
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                • Profile picture of the author nik0
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                  Originally Posted by dreamtoreality View Post

                  It appears that the vast majority agree with the site's right to exist, even though they are strongly against its content. As you're African American, the site has clearly and understandably struck a nerve. I don't blame you. However, ydering what your response would have been if the site in question was about Asians, Latin Americans, Jewish people etc. Would you honestly have been as worked up?
                  Lol I guess you haven't been around long enough on this forum to ask such question.
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                  • Profile picture of the author dreamtoreality
                    Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

                    Lol I guess you haven't been around long enough on this forum to ask such question.
                    Is that not allowed? It's an honest question and don't see the harm in asking it. If it's not then I'll delete it.
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                    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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                      Originally Posted by dreamtoreality View Post

                      Is that not allowed? It's an honest question and don't see the harm in asking it. If it's not then I'll delete it.
                      It's not about the question but if you knew Mike A a bit you would have known the answer yourself already
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                      • Profile picture of the author dreamtoreality
                        Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

                        It's not about the question but if you knew Mike A a bit you would have known the answer yourself already
                        Ha, ah right, now I've got you.
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                        • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                          Originally Posted by dreamtoreality View Post

                          Ha, ah right, now I've got you.

                          Sorry laddie but in real life you really cannot dream to reality. Ask a question of me and I answer it not nik0. I don't know what he is trying to say but I do know he has accused me of being a poster (now banned I believe) who made some reference to him which I never did and he had no evidence to support (mind you the accusation was based on my having and keeping things in confidence as I have to this day)

                          Its actually funny to see you guys unable to keep your stories straight though. In one instance you claim I argue about everything and in another just to suit yourselves you argue that I argue this just because I am African American and wouldn't if it were another race

                          Its hilarious that you are incapable of seeing the contradiction.

                          [quote]You don't have any data to back up your claim so why don't you shut up?[//quote]

                          How sweet . You knew reverse psychology would work on me. How can I deny you with such thoughtful consideration and hw much you would miss me? Ok I am back to stay.

                          um no data? 2 second search on the bnet brought up this familiar style
                          I don't think any of our clients are targeting that keyword. I'm sorry but you have no idea what you are talking about. The idea that the keywords we work on are so obscure and of so little value is just 100% wrong. You should really stop suggesting it; unless you like talking out of your ass that is.
                          and no that was not m you were talking.


                          Anyone who cares to can find far more
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                          • Profile picture of the author dreamtoreality
                            Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                            Its actually funny to see you guys unable to keep your stories straight though. In one instance you claim I argue about everything and in another just to suit yourselves you argue that I argue this just because I am African American and wouldn't if it were another race

                            Its hilarious that you are incapable of seeing the contradiction.
                            Sigh, you're making yourself look foolish again. Based on what I see on this forum everyday I quite rightly noticed and claimed that you love to argue. I then later asked an honest question whether you would have gotten so worked up if the site in question was about another race. It's a different point and separate from the original statement. How can you not see that?

                            You really are relentless, Mike. I swear you can't leave a thread without having the last word. You always want to prove that you're right.
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                            • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
                              Originally Posted by dreamtoreality View Post

                              Sigh, you're making yourself look foolish again. Based on what I see on this forum everyday I quite rightly noticed and claimed that you love to argue. I then later asked an honest question whether you would have gotten so worked up if the site in question was about another race. It's a different point and separate from the original statement. How can you not see that?

                              You really are relentless, Mike. I swear you can't leave a thread without having the last word. You always want to prove that you're right.
                              Take it from me, he becomes irrational when challenged and no amount of olive branch extensions will get him off the scent. He'll also assume the worst from the people who argue with him while believing 100% that his bad assumption is the gospel truth.
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                              • Profile picture of the author dreamtoreality
                                Originally Posted by Marc_L View Post

                                Take it from me, he becomes irrational when challenged and no amount of olive branch extensions will get him off the scent. He'll also assume the worst from the people who argue with him while believing 100% that his bad assumption is the gospel truth.
                                This is what I've noticed ever since I've started visiting this forum more frequently.

                                However, I think we should take it easy on Mike. All he needs is a big hug
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                              • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                                Originally Posted by Marc_L View Post

                                Take it from me, he becomes irrational when challenged
                                Yep so irrational that the proof I presented had you claiming Someone should complain to Google about it.

                                go figure just like one of the things the OP said he did and one of the things listed in the OP as an option under "reported"

                                nevertheless I still give you high marks for that Marc despite the fact we will probably always disagree on the vast majority of things.
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                                • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
                                  Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                                  Yep so irrational that the proof I presented had you claiming Someone should complain to Google about it.

                                  go figure just like one of the things the OP said he did and one of the things listed in the OP as an option under "reported"

                                  nevertheless I still give you high marks for that Marc despite the fact we will probably always disagree on the vast majority of things.
                                  Irrational people aren't always wrong. The point you brought up was a valid point. That doesn't mean you're rational.
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                          • Profile picture of the author nik0
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                            Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                            Sorry laddie but in real life you really cannot dream to reality. Ask a question of me and I answer it not nik0.
                            Lol chill down.

                            He asked: "Would you honestly have been as worked up?"

                            My answer would have been: Yes he would have been as worked up as I know you for awhile on this forum and know how you respond to these type of things.
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                            • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                              Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

                              My answer would have been: Yes he would have been as worked up as I know you for awhile on this forum and know how you respond to these type of things.

                              ROFL ...True enough NIk...... that is what I first thought but he seemed to have come to some conclusion about it and I didn't know because last we talked you were upset at me for something I never did so I couldn't tell

                              Irrational people aren't always wrong. The point you brought up was a valid point.
                              Thanks and in agreeing with me I think you are a prime example of your position on that. well done
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                • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                  Well the bad thing about being subscribed to a thread is that if you don't take it off you get notices. The good thing is that in cases where people think you are gone and try to make insinuations because you are you can see them doing it.


                  Originally Posted by dreamtoreality View Post

                  Mike, to borrow your phrase, I look forward to seeing all the mental gymnastics that will ensue trying to escape the evidence. See post #119.
                  You don't have a stick of evidence in post 119. Just your arguments. Meanwhile you ARE doing the gymnastics to avoid the evidence from Google. So lets have it and stop trying to avoid answering. Since I see you now claiming that my evidence proves relevance lets hear it. Should Google associate "black people" with the N word? IF not then thats not relevancy. If so then we know where you are at. Stand answer and deliver or run again. The evidence I pointed to makes things very clear. Google directly associates "black people" with the N word.

                  It appears that the vast majority agree with the site's right to exist
                  So? So do I. I am in that majority (not that majority ever made anything right)

                  If you could read worth a lick it has NEVER been my position that the site should not be allowed to exist. Nest the OP listed deindexed as an option but only one. I never did. HE then made that statement but I fail to see how that embodies the entire threads subject. SO heres a shocker (again if you can read this time?)

                  Mike A AGREES that the site should be left to exist.

                  You will not find me saying anywhere in this thread otherwise. learn to read. I however have made the case crystal clear that Google not ranking the site or promoting it and especially not for terms related to black people and equating them to the N word is absolutely no violation of free speech. They are free to tank it to oblivion for that term just as they do many peoples sites for far lesser reason. Its a totally bogus argument that the entire issue comes down to free speech.. What I see alot of you trying desperately to do is to make the entire argument hinge on Nest saying it should not exist or even be deindexed. The entire argument cannot be reduced to that one option since many have been discussed.

                  As you're African American, the site has clearly and understandably struck a nerve. I don't blame you. However, I'm wondering what your response would have been if the site in question was about Asians, Latin Americans, Jewish people etc. Would you honestly have been as bothered?
                  why? because you think I share your apathy based on race? I mean you just basically stated that its merely as "I am african american" that makes it strike a nerve. Surprise! Try me with Nazis. I have argued on some forums just as vociferously for Jews (Another group that hate groups like to go after) . I never grew up attaching myself to a color but as a human being. What about you? seems like you don't. You think it all comes down to my race. Why would I be any less affected by another human being being subjected to a hateful reference?

                  I reference the term african american and Black because in our culture we have those references not because I buy into your race defined world.

                  Heres the thing - People ask questions out of their own frame of reference and when they do they reveal their own thought processes. the fact that you think I potentially wouldn't be bothered by another human being being subjected to a reference tells me where you are. You obviously think I might be like you in that regard but I am not.
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                  • Profile picture of the author dreamtoreality
                    Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                    Should Google associate "black people" with the N word?
                    No, they shouldn't. As I said, that's down to Google and you. It has nothing to do with me. I can't change that. It's not my fault that Google associates these two words together, but they do. This is an argument for relevancy. It doesn't matter how you or I see things, it's how Google sees things.

                    Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                    Stand answer and deliver or run again.
                    I've replied to everything you've said. I'm not getting this statement. In fact, the last argument we had, which was about Amazon, you disappeared from.


                    Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                    I however have made the case crystal clear that Google not ranking the site or promoting it and especially not for terms related to black people and equating them to the N word is absolutely no violation of free speech.
                    There's two arguments. The site having a right to exist and its ranking based on relevancy.

                    Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                    why? because you think I share your apathy based on race? I mean you just basically stated that its merely as "I am african american" that makes it strike a nerve. Surprise! Try me with Nazis. I have argued on some forums just as vociferously for Jews (Another group that hate groups like to go after) . I never grew up attaching myself to a color but as a human being. What about you? seems like you don't. You think it all comes down to my race. Why would I be any less affected by another human being being subjected to a hateful reference?

                    I reference the term african american and Black because in our culture we have those references not because I buy into your race defined world.

                    Heres the thing - People ask questions out of their own frame of reference and when they do they reveal their own thought processes. the fact that you think I potentially wouldn't be bothered by another human being being subjected to a reference tells me where you are. You obviously think I might be like you in that regard but I am not.
                    Oh, Mike, take a breath and calm down. You've made an awful lot of assumptions here and it just makes you look foolish. Time and time again I have said that I strongly disagree with the site's beliefs. Throughout this thread you've been saying the same thing. If anyone isn't immediately against the site existing then they are a racist. Please, give it a rest. This is such a poor argument and an incredibly easy way out.

                    Oh, I almost forgot. I can read, Mike. I tend to get through a book a week. I'm reading Post Office by Charles Bukowski, at the moment. It's a blast.
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                    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                      Originally Posted by dreamtoreality View Post

                      You've made an awful lot of assumptions here and it just makes you look foolish.
                      Funny I was thinking the same thing when your question implied an assumption I would care less except for my race. Go figure.

                      If anyone isn't immediately against the site existing then they are a racist. Please, give it a rest. This is such a poor argument and an incredibly easy way out.
                      Well yes it would be but it isn't because you are lying. I am only sure of one person being a racist in this thread. I said nothing about everyone who isn't against the site existing because I MYSELF am for the site exiting. So please its you that need to make a better argument .

                      Now if you imply that I would not be bothered by another race being targeted then sorry son you deserve to get the question right back your way which is why you got that answer
                      Oh, I almost forgot. I can read, Mike. I tend to get through a book a week. I'm reading Post Office by Charles Bukowski, at the moment. It's a blast.
                      cliff notes do not count

                      Y I swear you can't leave a thread without having the last word. You always want to prove that you're right.
                      seems like I have a protege in this thread eh? but wait a minute. Didn't you just say I disappeared from a thread that was about Amazon?

                      So um who had the last word there?
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                      • Profile picture of the author dreamtoreality
                        Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                        Funny I was thinking the same thing when your question implied an assumption I would care less except for my race. Go figure.
                        The difference in the assumptions are vast. I just asked a single honest question. I didn't know that you would get so worked up. You then fire back with some ridiculous statements/questions. You go on the offensive and make many staggering assumptions:

                        - you think I share your apathy based on race?

                        - I never grew up attaching myself to a color but as a human being. What about you? seems like you don't. You think it all comes down to my race.

                        - the fact that you think I potentially wouldn't be bothered by another human being being subjected to a reference tells me where you are.- You obviously think I might be like you in that regard but I am not.

                        Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                        Well yes it would be but it isn't because you are lying. I am only sure of one person being a racist in this thread. I said nothing about everyone who isn't against the site existing because I MYSELF am for the site exiting. So please its you that need to make a better argument .
                        Good, you don't think people in this thread are racist. However, you've definitely implied it on a few occasions.

                        Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                        Now if you imply that I would not be bothered by another race being targeted then sorry son you deserve to get the question right back your way which is why you got that answer
                        Again, it was an honest question. It wasn't even a statement. You just went over the top in your response and made all sorts of assumptions.


                        Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                        seems like I have a protege in this thread eh? but wait a minute. Didn't you just say I disappeared from a thread that was about Amazon?

                        So um who had the last word there?
                        Doubtful. I don't get involved in arguments on a daily basis. I can probably count on one hand the number of arguments I've engaged in.
                        Yep, you did disappear. A very rare occurrence, I'm sure. Most probably because you lost the argument Could also be because you get involved in so many arguments that you forgot to reply.

                        Mike, I'm done arguing with you. It's completely futile. You have too much time on your hands and are far too relentless for me.

                        A couple of times in this thread you said that you're leaving. You just couldn't help yourself, could you?
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                        • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                          Originally Posted by dreamtoreality View Post

                          The difference in the assumptions are vast. I just asked a single honest question.
                          This aint high school. In the real world people ask things all the time to make insinuations. things like "are you stupid? (single honest question?). Are you honestly going to sit there and tell me you did not steal the cookie? (single honest question but not laden with suspicion?) and yours would you honestly .....implying that there if I looked honestly at the question I might find other than I would claim.

                          Sorry but simply putting a question mark behind something does not automatically make it a single honest question. Theres a reason why people complain when others QUESTION their honesty, integrity or commitment

                          You go on the offensive and make many staggering assumptions:

                          - you think I share your apathy based on race?
                          Theres nothing staggering about that - you DIRECTLY implied that an issue resonated with me because of my skin color - thats a fact and then you went on to ask with considerable doubt in the phrasing whether I would care as much if it were not related to my color. Stop playing games. You knew you did.

                          As for all the rest You you you stuff. I'll skip . It has nothing to do with the thread topic.

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                          However, I think we should take it easy on Mike. All he needs is a big hug

                          Now that is one dream that can not be dreamed to reality
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    • Profile picture of the author dreamtoreality
      Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post


      Its bing's job to do too and they do it fine. The argument that the OP went looking for a hate site is pretty much destroyed by the fact that the same search on Bing does not bring back that site.
      I don't get why that destroys the argument. Google and Bing have different algorithms and therefore are always going to display different results. I don't know how Google's algorithm works but there's clearly a reason why the site is being displayed at number one for "why do black people." You're going to have to ask Google.


      Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

      Offended is an interesting choice of words. However see above - the whole censorship thing is just you and others not understanding free speech. Nowhere in free speech are you given any right to have your views promoted by another company.
      You're right, offended is indeed an interesting choice of word, but I just wrote the first word that come into my head, for lack of a better word. Anyhow, I think you get my point.

      While there is nowhere in free speech saying that you are given any right to have your views promoted by another company, this means that the blame lies with Google then.
      All Google is doing is crawling and indexing the web. For better or worse this site is being displayed. Many people say that people outside of this forum are focused on building a website and let SEO take care of itself. So while no one is given any right to have their views promoted by another company, you can't control what Google does and doesn't do.

      As mentioned, what I believe it comes down to is legality.

      Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

      Mike that's the thing, for some reason they don't see the irony. They complain about a 3 page site with poor content ranking for a high competition keyword but at the same time I show them a hate site and they like oh that's cool, matter fact it's your fault for clicking on it or typing in the phrase that brought you there lol.
      I'm not sure if you're talking about me, but please don't generalize.


      Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

      I wasn't even angry at all when I posted the thread, I became a little annoyed once I saw the comments here but nothing more, it just let's me know what type of people I've been dealing with here.

      I'm so glad that most people in the world views aren't this messed up or racism would still be running rampant.
      Again, I'm not sure whether you're directly talking to me or if I'm included in this, but please don't generalize. Just because I'm saying that a site like that has a right to exist, EVEN THOUGH I DO NOT AGREE WITH THEIR VIEWS, some people may automatically get the wrong idea and have already formed an opinion about me.

      My argument is that I believe in free speech. Always have done, always will do. Which is precisely why I got involved in this debate. You can show me a site with the most scathing, obscene and offensive thoughts about my nationality. While I may disagree with every single word, I won't deny it has a right to exist. At the end of the day, Google has the final say
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    It's clear that the OP called for deindexing, penalizing, or reporting based upon the offensiveness of the search result. Not because of relevancy.
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      Originally Posted by Marc_L View Post

      It's clear that the OP called for deindexing, penalizing, or reporting based upon the offensiveness of the search result. Not because of relevancy.
      That's what I was trying to say, it doesn't matter which race is swapped out in the keyword phrase, it always returns something offensive, like the keyword phrase was baited.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      Pretty much done with this thread after the referencing of Obama's mother being white and him SUPPOSEDLY being born in Hawaii (where have we heard that questioned SUPPOSEDLY before?) making him not an African American :rolleyes:

      I know for a fact based on all the evidence what and who I am dealing with. However I did come across this fact that is relevant to the thread so figured I would point it out. You can see it here and no one has pointed it out before

      https://www.google.com/search?client...hannel=suggest

      I would screenshot it but it could be seen as circumventing the language filter. There you can see very clearly and understand if you know anything about SEO the relevance of the straight up FACT of whats on that search result page.

      The "Why black people" serp HIGHLIGHTS in bold the N word in the result snippets in the first two results. Now the deniers can swing high, swing low, do the Macarerena and jig and dance but the rest of us know what bold means in the search snippets.

      It indicates words that Google sees as synonymous or near synonymous to the search term and as such is a clue to the relevance they see in their algo equating the word "blacks" with ngs. In other words the evidence FROM GOOGLE indicates that those sites get a boost from Google based on the n word being on their pages

      You can see the thesaurus reference in reverse here

      https://www.google.com/search?client...w=1327&bih=510

      Those that may beg that blacks is synonymous with the N word mark em and mark em well for who and what they are. This is clearly a problem just as Google equating the word "sexually active woman" to "whore" would be.

      Its probably this reason why Bing gets better results. Their LSI and thesaurus reference takes the difference into greater consideration. SO feel free to blather on some more as if that is no issue of relevancy. that will only seal the deal.

      Truth is as I have said before in this case it is an issue of relevancy that IS an issue of offensivenes because the N word changes the meaning of "blacks"

      and let me close of the doors for those trying to escape the logic. "Blacks" can be used in perfectly innocent ways such as "why do blacks vote democratic". Trying to equate Blacks with the N word won't work.....well unless...........
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  • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
    I agree that "blacks" shouldn't be picking up LSI relevancy for the "N" term. Somebody should complain to Google.

    In my searches last night I only used "black people" and that wasn't highlighted like that.

    https://www.google.com/search?client...=suggest&pws=0

    By the way the OP used "black people" so everybody was commenting on that instead of the term "blacks".
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      Originally Posted by Marc_L View Post

      I agree that "blacks" shouldn't be picking up LSI relevancy for the "N" term. Somebody should complain to Google.

      In my searches last night I only used "black people" and that wasn't highlighted like that.

      Thats fair enough Marc. I respect that. See? we don't always disagree. I'll go into radio silence now. Incidentally I just posted the opposite and you can see black people in reverse

      https://www.google.com/search?client...w=1327&bih=510

      It really is interesting for SEO because just last week I read someone saying that LSI was a myth.
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      • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
        Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

        Thats fair enough Marc. I respect that. See? we don't always disagree. I'll go into radio silence now. Incidentally I just posted the opposite and you can see black people in reverse

        https://www.google.com/search?client...w=1327&bih=510

        It really is interesting for SEO because just last week I read someone saying that LSI was a myth.
        That's interesting.
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    Perhaps Google associates it cause the term "blacks" is also more often then not used in a negative way.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

      Perhaps Google associates it cause the term "blacks" is also more often then not used in a negative way.
      Thats not true. As anyone who follows elections in the US knows the term "blacks" are used all the time to reference as a block (as in a block of voters) not in a negative way. Same as whites, Hispanics, latinos etc.

      Originally Posted by Marc_L View Post

      I don't usually say those things, they are saved just for you buddy.
      Dude stop lying. Who you trying to kid? I have seen you use those phrases with many people. usually a customer who reviews your services in a way you don't like and right here in this forum.
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        Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

        Thats not true. As anyone who follows elections in the US knows the term "blacks" are used all the time to reference as a block (as in a block of voters) not in a negative way. Same as whites, Hispanics, latinos etc.
        Hmm okay, wasn't aware of that.
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      • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
        Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

        Dude stop lying. Who you trying to kid? I have seen you use those phrases with many people. usually a customer who reviews your services in a way you don't like and right here in this forum.
        LOL, you're full of shit.:p

        You don't have any data to back up your claim so why don't you shut up? Thought you were leaving?

        Plus I said "usually" which doesn't mean all the time in case you can't figure it out.
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    And also, Obama was born in Kenya not Hawaii.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      Originally Posted by ronrule View Post

      And also, Obama was born in Kenya not Hawaii.
      There ya go. LOL

      True colors are far better than pontificating about free speech when that was never the original point - The OP was and it had nothing to do with the site no existing on the net. that was something said later which doesn't actually cover the entire scope of this now three page thread.
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  • Profile picture of the author ronrule
    What makes you so sure the site owner isn't black? I mean, if we're going to bring race discussions to WF, let's at least be honest about it... No one uses that word more than blacks, and no one tells black jokes more than black comedians. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if it was a black-owned site.
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    • Profile picture of the author nest28
      Originally Posted by ronrule View Post

      What makes you so sure the site owner isn't black? I mean, if we're going to bring race discussions to WF, let's at least be honest about it... No one uses that word more than blacks, and no one tells black jokes more than black comedians. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if it was a black-owned site.
      First of all how many black Imer's do you see, cuz last I check it's just me, Mike Anthony and hand full of others. You know how many black people I know that owns a computer, 2. In other words computers and internet marketing in not a black profession, it's highly unlikely that the site is owned by someone black.


      As far as our use of the word, we don't use it as a insult, we also don't use the white version of the word that ends with a "er". Blacks use the version that end with "a".

      Yes blacks tell black jokes, like having roaches, cool aid jokes. Not the type of jokes you see on that site. Either way it just goes to show what you and many people here think of blacks. You don't know us, your going by what you heard, seen on tv or some rap video.


      Now that I think about it, who cares if he was black, I would still hate the site. Nobody ever said the the owner was white. It's a hate site, it's a racist site, it should not exist. But hey neither should racism but we all know that asking to much.




      This is our version of a racist joke:



      Basically funny but harmless and far as I'm concerned based on what happened between white and blacks in the past, I've always been extremely surprised that this is how far we take it. And yes he uses the "N" word a lot. But you can tell by the way he says it, there's no hate behind it. Big difference in the white and black uses of the word.
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      • Profile picture of the author ronrule
        Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

        First of all how many black Imer's do you see, cuz last I check it's just me, Mike Anthony and hand full of others. You know how many black people I know that owns a computer, 2. In other words computers and internet marketing in not a black profession, it's highly unlikely that the site is owned by someone black.
        So just to clarify ... the guy who's crying "that's racist" is making racist statements because "black people don't own computers"? Are you freaking serious?

        As far as our use of the word, we don't use it as a insult, we also don't use the white version of the word that ends with a "er". Blacks use the version that end with "a".
        And that automatically means it would be written that way too? I frequently hear the word "ask" pronounced "ax", does that mean they would be writing it down that way?

        Yes blacks tell black jokes, like having roaches, cool aid jokes. Not the type of jokes you see on that site. Either way it just goes to show what you and many people here think of blacks. You don't know us, your going by what you heard, seen on tv or some rap video.
        I haven't seen a rap video since the days of Coolio, but you're kind of making my point for me with your subtle way of saying "you're racist". And I'm pretty sure I recall the days of Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor making comments very similar to those on that site in their standup routines back in the day. But acknowledging that wouldn't suit your agenda, would it?

        Now that I think about it, who cares if he was black, I would still hate the site. Nobody ever said the the owner was white. It's a hate site, it's a racist site, it should not exist. But hey neither should racism but we all know that asking to much.
        I think you need to look a little deeper at who is really the racist.

        Black, hispanic, and middle-eastern comedians make fun of every single race on the planet in their standup routines, including their own, usually in the form of observational humor. It's funny. People of all races laugh.

        White comedians make fun of every single race except blacks on the planet in their standup routines, usually in the form of observational humor. It's funny. People of all races laugh. But as soon as that white guy tells a black joke, he's a racist piece of sh--, gets his ass kicked in the alley behind the venue, and never performs anywhere again.

        Who's racist again?

        Don't misunderstand my point or take anything I'm saying as an attack on you, I'm simply saying that the only way people are ever going to progress beyond race is to stop getting their panties in a bind every time someone talks about race. Some people are stupid. Come to think of it, most people are stupid. But the attitude/over-reaction to all things that are, or are mildly perceived as, being racially motivated is just perpetuating the stereotypes that divide us. Every race on the planet has been the victim of racial warfare/enslavement/discrimination/profiling at some point in history, but only one race continues to wear it as a crutch today. If that stopped, I suspect the rest would follow. But yelling "that's racist" every time something offends you isn't going to get any closer to the goal of racial neutrality, it just continues to divide people.
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        • Profile picture of the author nest28
          Originally Posted by ronrule View Post

          So just to clarify ... the guy who's crying "that's racist" is making racist statements because "black people don't own computers"? Are you freaking serious?



          And that automatically means it would be written that way too? I frequently hear the word "ask" pronounced "ax", does that mean they would be writing it down that way?



          I haven't seen a rap video since the days of Coolio, but you're kind of making my point for me with your subtle way of saying "you're racist". And I'm pretty sure I recall the days of Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor making comments very similar to those on that site in their standup routines back in the day. But acknowledging that wouldn't suit your agenda, would it?



          I think you need to look a little deeper at who is really the racist.

          Black, hispanic, and middle-eastern comedians make fun of every single race on the planet in their standup routines, including their own, usually in the form of observational humor. It's funny. People of all races laugh.

          White comedians make fun of every single race except blacks on the planet in their standup routines, usually in the form of observational humor. It's funny. People of all races laugh. But as soon as that white guy tells a black joke, he's a racist piece of sh--, gets his ass kicked in the alley behind the venue, and never performs anywhere again.

          Who's racist again?
          Listen my man, I said that the site should not exist, end of story. I don't care what Eddie Murphy said 20 yrs ago. I'm not going make this a big thing about race or racism. I simply said wow I was searching 'why do black people" and came across a racist site that in my opinion should not exist.



          Black people has nothing to do with the word Ni**er. I don't understand how no one see that. If I said why do white people, and cracka.com showed up I still would been like wtf. If it seems as though the site was made by black person and it has racist jokes about whites I would have felt exactly the way I do right now. The site would add no value to the world.


          Far as me saying blacks don't own a computer, that has nothing to do with it being a racist statement. I'm saying not everyone has a computer, it's not common in the hood. I should know.


          Edit:
          "But yelling "that's racist" every time something offends you isn't going to get any closer to the goal of racial neutrality, it just continues to divide people."

          I don't yell racism to often but when a site is name Ni**ermania, and has the best Ni**ger jokes it kind of hard to not say that's racist don't you think.

          Either way, in my everyday life I never been on the receiving end of a racist slur, I don't have a reason not to like white people, or anyone for that matter. So in general I could careless about race, just don't make no site with jokes like:

          A Mexican and a ni**er are riding in car . . who's driving?
          A cop!
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      • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
        Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

        Big difference in the white and black uses of the word.
        That isn't fair. A white person can use it in that way as well. The word isn't hateful just because of who says it but in the way it is intended.
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          Originally Posted by Marc_L View Post

          That isn't fair. A white person can use it in that way as well. The word isn't hateful just because of who says it but in the way it is intended.
          Marc that is NOT what Nest is saying. He is talking about the usage which I agree is just dumb for any side. The word should just be put out of commission by both sides. However go and read some of that stuff Nest objected to at that site. Its mean, ugly and hateful. regardless of my distaste for it in music or comedy its not USED in such a hateful context.

          and for the record the fact that a black person can say it and turn right around and get upset at a white person saying it in the same joke/music context is dumber than dumb.
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            Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

            Marc that is NOT what Nest is saying. He is talking about the usage which I agree is just dumb for any side. The word should just be put out of commission by both sides. However go and read some of that stuff Nest objected to at that site. Its mean, ugly and hateful. regardless of my distaste for it in music or comedy its not USED in such a hateful context.
            Yeah the usage in that site was absolutely hateful. Maybe Ernest can tell us exactly what he meant by the black usage and the white usage of the word.
            and for the record the fact that a black person can say it and turn right around and get upset at a white person saying it in the same joke/music context is dumber than dumb.
            I couldn't agree more.
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        • Profile picture of the author nest28
          Originally Posted by Marc_L View Post

          That isn't fair. A white person can use it in that way as well. The word isn't hateful just because of who says it but in the way it is intended.
          Exactly, blacks say it, but the meaning is different, if a racist person says it, it's hate, if one black say it to another, it's like saying what's up.

          It's like if I call my mom a name it's ok, she's my mom. But if you call my mom a name, it' a insult.


          Do black people need to stop saying that word to each other and lead by example, yes. But just because we use it doesn't mean any other race can.


          Honestly I like old black guys, they call you brother, which is much better than the n word.
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      Originally Posted by ronrule View Post

      What makes you so sure the site owner isn't black? I mean, if we're going to bring race discussions to WF, let's at least be honest about it... No one uses that word more than blacks, and no one tells black jokes more than black comedians. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if it was a black-owned site.
      OH good Lord. I'm sorry I have never used the word here before but You are an idiot. Go and read the site. If you don't understand how blacks use it (and I wish they wouldn't myself) as different from how that site uses it you are totally ignorant. That site goes way beyond just using the N word. Claiming that that site might be owned by a black person because comedians use the word in atotally different way is probably the stupidest thing I have ever read on this forum.
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      • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
        Every race on the planet has been the victim of racial warfare/enslavement/discrimination/profiling at some point in history, but only one race continues to wear it as a crutch today.
        Hey Nest you like this one? Yeah we know EXACTLY what we are dealing with here. Poster comes on ranting about forgeting about race, don't get offended at the N word, let it go and don't focus on race and then BAM! makes a blanket race based statement

        only one race continues to wear it as a crutch today.
        Total blithering race based ignorance

        A) because some people using their color as a thing doesn't represent a whole race. (Yeah we know where the whole all you people are the same idea comes from. Triple K stuff there)
        B) Because its a total US centric mentality with no international sophistication yet like a country boy he talks about the planet. Fact is as you get outside of the US there are MULTITUDES of races and ethnic groups that still complain and rightfully so.
        C) because complaining is no crutch. Its a commentary on social justice. Sorry We don't live in the masta yard anymore, we pay our own way , have our own jobs and this African American probably makes more money than you. If you need a crutch ask and I'll buy you one.

        BY the way sorry to burst your bubble but Living in the south I can tell you - once you get out of the cities there are a whole lot of whites complaining about how how other ethnicities have taken away jobs form real americans using skin color arguments as a crutch for why no one will employ them or they can't find work. Your one race lie just blew up in your face.
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            Originally Posted by mrultra View Post

            Aka redneck, lol. You're not fooling anyone, racist.
            Nope if I wanted to use redneck I would have . I live In the south and country boy is actually a good wholesome word to many people white and black out of the cities. like in He's a good ole country boy". Sorry your claim just died a quick death. Did I specifically use it to indicate people outside of the cities? Yeah and I KNEW one of you would take offense even at that .Thats EXACTLY why I used it just so you would step out and show your TOTAL hypocrisy. lol...thanks you took the bait even faster than I thought you would.

            So tell us - Why are you so offended?

            You are in a thread where people say that Nest should just let it go and not be offended over a far more derogatory word like Ngr but say somebody is a country boy and bam! Got all offended didn't we?

            Hypocrisy much? again thanks for stepping up and proving my point. You aren't fooling anyone on your own racism.
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          Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

          Hey Nest you like this one? Yeah we know EXACTLY what we are dealing with here. Poster comes on ranting about forgeting about race, don't get offended at the N word, let it go and don't focus on race and then BAM! makes a blanket race based statement

          Total blithering race based ignorance

          A) because some people using their color as a thing doesn't represent a whole race. (Yeah we know where the whole all you people are the same idea comes from. Triple K stuff there)
          B) Because its a total US centric mentality with no international sophistication yet like a country boy he talks about the planet. Fact is as you get outside of the US there are MULTITUDES of races and ethnic groups that still complain and rightfully so.
          C) because complaining is no crutch. Its a commentary on social justice. Sorry We don't live in the masta yard anymore, we pay our own way , have our own jobs and this African American probably makes more money than you. If you need a crutch ask and I'll buy you one.

          BY the way sorry to burst your bubble but Living in the south I can tell you - once you get out of the cities there are a whole lot of whites complaining about how how other ethnicities have taken away jobs form real americans using skin color arguments as a crutch for why no one will employ them or they can't find work. Your one race lie just blew up in your face.
          Mike, you're kind of making my point for me.

          There was a story about a year ago, a second grade class was each assigned an historical figure to dress up as for the day. The selection was random, and it happened that a white kid was assigned Martin Luther King Jr. His parents put him in a little suit, gave him a mustache, put some black makeup on his face, and sent him off to school thinking nothing of it.

          Low and behold, some black person in the school was "offended" by the black face, referencing the old silver screen era when blacks were portrayed by white actors wearing black makeup. They said it was disrespectful to black people and made the kid wash it off. I was a history and archaeology student, so I understand the era and the "black face" premise, but the parents, the kid, and frankly most people today who aren't black or history/video production scholars wouldn't have even known about it.

          It shouldn't have been an issue... clearly it wasn't meant as a racist gesture. No parent said "Ha, lets send our kid to school with a blackface and piss everyone off!" but low and behold, someone called the local news. And they came out and stuck a microphone in the kids face and asked him what he was thinking. The kid - remember, a second grader - had no idea what the heck was going on. Here he was honoring MLK, in his mind, and everyone was mad at him for it. After the story broke, his parents received threatening phone calls, were called racists, etc. All because some JACKASS was "offended"? Are you kidding me? Someone needs to tell that moron to get over himself and grow up.

          THIS is how racism is created. That little boy, who didn't have a racist bone in his body, is going to remember how he and his family were treated. But now there's a good chance they'll have a different opinion of black people than they used to. They'll view them as a violent people who overreact and play the race card at every perceived opportunity. And the stereotype will continue for another generation.

          To someone who isn't racist, there is nothing more offensive than being called a racist. But it happens all the time. You did it to me just now. As a nation, whites have for the most part moved past race. I know admitting this doesn't fit in with your agenda, but dude, we elected a black President for Pete's sake, if anything should have indicated that the race debate was behind us it should have been that. Sure, there will always be some ignorant fools out there, but that's happening on both sides - because it also seems there will always be those in the black community who have something to gain from race-baiting and perpetuating racial stereotypes, and we can't seem to have a serious discussion about it because when a white guy like me tries to have a candid discussion about it, he has to walk on egg shells to make his point else he's labeled a racist.

          Today's "racism" isn't about race at all, it's about crime, culture, and economics. There are neighborhoods I won't drive though in a Corvette with the top down, you know what I mean? It just so happens that a good majority of those are predominantly black neighborhoods, but it isn't skin pigment that concerns me - it's the fact that people who don't "fit in there" get carjacked, beaten, robbed, and shot.

          So when I say "I won't go there", I'm thinking of those reasons and the black guy is thinking "he hates black people, and just made that other stuff up to hide his racism". Once that happens, we're at an impasse. At that moment I will never convince you I'm not a racist, and you'll never convince me you aren't ignorant.

          Only one race has the power to change that, and it isn't white people. I bet we'll still be arguing about race in another 100 years.
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          • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
            Originally Posted by ronrule View Post

            Mike, you're kind of making my point for me.

            There was a story about a year ago, a second grade class
            Actually you just made my point for me. You cited one incident and one person to back up your "only one race" racist garbage. One person or even a thousand does not speak for an entire race That IS how racism is perpetuated and its you that just perpetuated it.

            THIS is how racism is created.
            You are too ignorant. Racism has been around for centuries passed down from generation to generation It was not created by that incident. Get a clue.

            You did it to me just now.
            I called you on a totally raced based statement of who was the one race that used their race as a crutch in the world. No apologies. You talk it then you own it. Its again a blithering ignorant statement totally clueless of ethnic and race issues still real for many races all around the world.


            As a nation, whites have for the most part moved past race. I know admitting this doesn't fit in with your agenda, but dude, we elected a black President for Pete's sake, if anything should have indicated that the race debate was behind us it should have been that.
            Totally stupid point (but not too unpopular).

            A) Obama didn't carry every state
            B) His popular vote numbers indicate close to half did not vote for him
            C) no president has been ridiculed for his race like this one has

            To say that because we managed to vote for one black guy racism in the nation vanished is yet another of the all time silliest things I have ever read on here

            can't seem to have a serious discussion about it because when a white guy like me tries to have a candid discussion about it, he has to walk on egg shells to make his point else he's labeled a racist.
            thats a total lie. I see those discussions all the time on CNN, CBS and all the major networks. However they come from intelligent people who do not go around on forums making statements like "only one race uses their race as a crutch". That is a racist statement for the precise reason that it tries to put an entire race on trial for what some people do. Keep claiming that and yes you ARE a racist. and you are not in here having any serious discussion. You are in here making ridiculous statements that Nest should just laugh at jokes like

            "How do you get a [bleep] out of a tree?
            Cut the rope."

            or
            "Why do blacks have white hands and feet?
            They were on all fours when God spray painted them!"

            Yeah thats some funny stuff dude...maybe to you (mind you I think your problem is you didn't even bother to read what Nest was talking about before you blathered your nonsense. You were just in the common mode of why don't these black people shut up already).

            There are neighborhoods I won't drive though in a Corvette with the top down, you know what I mean?
            Umm no I don't. I can tell you haven't been in many "black" neighborhoods. There are Mercedes and Lexus sedans parked in many of them. No crutches in sight.

            "it's the fact that people who don't "fit in there" get carjacked, beaten, robbed, and shot."

            And? care to figure how many places I don't go to where there are guys in white sheets that have regular meetings spewing hate at "the blacks"? Go ahead tell me how many black neighborhoods that have monthly rallies in black sheets talking about killing whites?

            "Once that happens, we're at an impasse."

            No once you start making racist statements the theres only one race that uses their race as a crutch THEN we are at an impasse because you at that point are clearly in the racist zone categorizing entire people under a race as participating in an action most do not.

            " I will never convince you I'm not a racist, and you'll never convince me you aren't ignorant."

            The evidence of your only one race garbage PROVES you are both racist and ignorant. I have no need to wait for you to be convinced.

            Only one race has the power to change that, and it isn't white people.
            Another stupid statement. Racism will end when BOTH stop using race based word and arguments like "only one race". For all your talk that sentence gave you away.

            We know what is in your head because you typed it out for all to see. Yep and anyone that thanks you for that rationalization is close to being in the same boat.
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      • Profile picture of the author ronrule
        Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

        OH good Lord. I'm sorry I have never used the word here before but You are an idiot. Go and read the site. If you don't understand how blacks use it (and I wish they wouldn't myself) as different from how that site uses it you are totally ignorant. That site goes way beyond just using the N word. Claiming that that site might be owned by a black person because comedians use the word in atotally different way is probably the stupidest thing I have ever read on this forum.
        Right, because there isn't one black guy in the world smart enough to capitalize on the word on the Internet, and collect all of the racists in one place?

        I'm not saying it's the case... or that it's even likely. I'm just saying it wouldn't surprise me if it was a black-owned site.
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    Have you ever thought about just laughing at the jokes instead of taking offense? I did the first time Carlos Mencia told the one you just posted about the cop. Does it change anything for you that it came from a hispanic comedian originally?

    Think about it this way ... "So what if it's racist?" I mean, why waste your energy fighting ignorance? The ignorant will just dumb you down to their level and beat you with experience. All fighting about it does is perpetuate racial stereotypes, it doesn't actually change the stereotype. The people who constantly whine about race are creating more racism than they're solving.

    In the case of this site we're talking about though, here's the problem ... I don't defend his content, but I do defend his right to post it. Defending freedom of speech is more important on a broad scale than whether someone gets offended about the content, and if you press this issue then free speech advocates will rush to his defense. Do you really want THAT jackass to be the poster kid for free speech on the Internet? I sure as hell don't.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Stop searching for things you don't want to see.

    BTW, Walmart sells Kleenex.
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  • Profile picture of the author ronrule
    Like I said, I'll never convince you I'm not a racist and you'll never convince me you aren't ignorant. Thanks for validating the point. :rolleyes:

    Racism isn't taught, it's experienced. Your error is in your inability to recognize that your side of the coin is just as much a part of the problem as the ignorance on the other side. You're nitpicking my single incident reference, but what you don't understand is that all experiences are merely a collective of individual incidents. I've only been the victim of racism once in my life, it was in high school, when I started dating a girl who was black. We had been friends since we were little kids, race wasn't something I ever really gave much thought to, at least up until that point. But when you're being threated for dating "one of ours", it tends to change the perspective a little on who's racist and who isn't. I suppose you wouldn't know anything about that. It's funny what you say about true colors, you're showing them now. There's only one racist in this little conversation we're having right now, and it isn't me, but no one will ever convince you of that. So like I said, thanks for making my point.
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by ronrule View Post

      Like I said, I'll never convince you I'm not a racist and you'll never convince me you aren't ignorant. Thanks for validating the point.
      :rolleyes:
      In Mike's mind we're all racist, so yea, you'll never convince him otherwise. It's like talking to a wall.
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      • Profile picture of the author ronrule
        Originally Posted by yukon View Post

        In Mike's mind we're all racist, so yea, you'll never convince him otherwise. It's like talking to a wall.
        Nah, he has me all figured out. When my company donated more than he makes in a year to Wings and traveled with my sis and her girl scout troop to set up computers in classrooms in Africa, I only did it because I knew they would probably get a virus at some point and just wanted to piss those kids off. That's how us white guys roll. In fact, when she asked me, my exact words were "Will this piss off black kids? Because if so, I am totally in."
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        • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
          Originally Posted by ronrule View Post

          Nah, he has me all figured out. When my company donated more than he makes in a year to Wings and traveled with my sis and her girl scout troop to set up computers in classrooms in Africa,

          oh puh-leaze. The old we did charity work for black people so we are not racist even when we make race based arguments is old and tired. It stretches back to the days of slavery where people said - well we teach our slaves to read and write so we are good people.

          NO....not putting you in that category but saying you did this or that charity is a weak rebuttal to being called out on your "only one race" race argument. You obviously have a chip on your shoulder. I am not accusing you of anything else but what you said and you are free to withdraw it at any time.
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          • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
            Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

            oh puh-leaze. The old we did charity work for black people so we are not racist even when we make race based arguments is old and tired. It stretches back to the days of slavery where people said - well we teach our slaves to read and write so we are good people.

            NO....not putting you in that category but saying you did this or that charity is a weak rebuttal to being called out on your "only one race" race argument. You obviously have a chip on your shoulder. I am not accusing you of anything else but what you said and you are free to withdraw it at any time.
            I'm wondering, how can one defend themselves after being called a racist? I was wondering about this the other day.

            I can't think of a way.
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            • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
              Originally Posted by Marc_L View Post

              I'm wondering, how can one defend themselves after being called a racist? I was wondering about this the other day.

              I can't think of a way.

              Really? this one is easy. Withdraw the statement that only one race uses race as a crutch. Its blithering IGNORANT statement because

              A) There are a number of races and ethnic groups all around the world that are recovering from (and still some under) prejudice and racism who DO appeal to their minority status and the unfairness of the racism

              B) Most African Americans are not living on any "crutch". The go to work , come home to the houses they bought with their hard earned money and live their own lives. So from time to time they point out things that they feel are racist just as we all do when we see something unfair (many here just because they thought their MFA should rank higher)? Its pure garbage to call that a crutch and include an entire race as doing that.
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              • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
                Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                Really? this one is easy. Withdraw the statement that only one race uses race as a crutch. Its blithering IGNORANT statement because
                I was talking in more general terms.
                B) Most African Americans are not living on any "crutch". The go to work , come home to the houses they bought with their hard earned money and live their own lives. So from time to time they point out things that they feel are racist just as we all do when we see something unfair (many here just because they thought their MFA should rank higher)? Its pure garbage to call that a crutch and include an entire race as doing that.
                I kind of made this point to Ron. Maybe its wrong but it does seem that race is an issue more often for African Americans than it is for other races. Look at the Trayvon Martin case as an example.
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                • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                  Originally Posted by Marc_L View Post

                  I
                  I kind of made this point to Ron. Maybe its wrong but it does seem that race is an issue more often for African Americans than it is for other races. Look at the Trayvon Martin case as an example.
                  Well it would in the US because of recent history. Ron's utter foolishness was in saying "on the planet". Seriously in the US who can claim any long and entrenched national racism against them except African Americans and Native Indians? Cultural context and history always plays a part in it so there is sill that historical reference but to characterize that as only one race on the planet is just stupid.

                  As for the Trayvon Case - I can't rule race entirely out because Zimm was doing some serious profiling (which went beyond race) but I don't think race was a big role. I do hope he gets some time because he really started the whole thing with following the kid like he was a weekend cop even after the cop told him to stop following. Did the kid go off on him? I don't know but it never would have happened without Zimm being an idiot
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                  • Profile picture of the author ronrule
                    Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                    Well it would in the US because of recent history. Ron's utter foolishness was in saying "on the planet".
                    I'll bite, correct me then. There were only two times I said "on the planet".

                    Here:
                    Black, hispanic, and middle-eastern comedians make fun of every single race on the planet in their standup routines, including their own, usually in the form of observational humor. It's funny. People of all races laugh.
                    and here:
                    Every race on the planet has been the victim of racial warfare/enslavement/discrimination/profiling at some point in history, but only one race continues to wear it as a crutch today.
                    So, your corrections as they pertain to my use of "on the planet" would be what exactly?

                    1. List any races that have been off limits to comedians of all races.
                    2. List any race that has never been enslaved or discriminated against by another race at some point in human history.

                    If I'm wrong, by all means I'll apologize for making an incorrect/uninformed statement.:rolleyes:

                    As for the Trayvon Case - I can't rule race entirely out because Zimm was doing some serious profiling (which went beyond race) but I don't think race was a big role. I do hope he gets some time because he really started the whole thing with following the kid like he was a weekend cop even after the cop told him to stop following. Did the kid go off on him? I don't know but it never would have happened without Zimm being an idiot
                    Well, at least we agree on that.
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                    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                      Originally Posted by ronrule View Post

                      So, your corrections as they pertain to my use of "on the planet" would be what exactly?
                      Reading not your thing eh? Well scroll up and try again because I've said it like what ten times

                      1. List any races that have been off limits to comedians of all races.
                      2. List any race that has never been enslaved or discriminated against by another race at some point in human history.
                      what happened to number 3????? ....you know like the actual point you made that

                      African Americans are the only race to use race as a crutch.

                      If I'm wrong, by all means I'll apologize for making an incorrect/uninformed statement.
                      More lying. If you were going to you would have already.
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      • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
        Originally Posted by yukon View Post

        In Mike's mind we're all racist, so yea, you'll never convince him otherwise. It's like talking to a wall.

        Sorry Yuke. You of all people do not speak for "all". This board, shucks even this thread has many I have never seen spout any racist statements. You speak for you because you have made many on many occasions and Ron well he keeps stating his "only one race" argument while claiming he doesn't see race which is blithering nonsense and entirely contradictory.
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        • Profile picture of the author yukon
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          Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

          Sorry Yuke. You of all people do not speak for "all". This board, shucks even this thread has many I have never seen spout any racist statements. You speak for you because you have made many on many occasions and Ron well he keeps stating his "only one race" argument while claiming he doesn't see race which is blithering nonsense and entirely contradictory.
          You've consistently confused Al Sharptons stupidity with racism.

          Stop searching for racial search queries & you won't have to continue your quest for internet justice.

          May the force be with you.
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          • Profile picture of the author nest28
            Originally Posted by yukon View Post

            You've consistently confused Al Sharptons stupidity with racism.

            Stop searching for racial search queries & you won't have to continue your quest for internet justice.
            I'll tell you why I was searching the term "why do black people" in the first place.


            A long time ago, I was on my way home from work, my car was in the shop so I took the bus. I stop at the local chinese store to pick up some halls and when I came out there were a group of black guys which immediately put me in alert, hey sad but true.I had on all black, bullet proof vest that said agent and gun belt etc.


            One guy says what kind of gun do you have, I don't respond, another says that's a 9mm, they continue trying to figure out what type of gun I had and was I the police. I ignore them until I heard one of them say he would take my gun, and he made a gesture like he was reaching for something. I put my hand on my gun and upholstered it just a bit, after doing that they walk off.


            I became furious after that, I called my girlfriend and cousin and told them I hate black people. I never had to deal with this with whites, latin, asians etc. I quit my job the next day because I just couldn't deal with this issue anymore. Not just this situation but people in general, I developed a extremely bad attitude and it was hard for family and friends to be around me.


            The day I search "why do black people" my girlfriend and I were talking about why I left my job back in the day, and I said "I don't know why black people hate each other". Than I said matter fact let me check internet, that's why I type in that phrase. To understand why I couldn't just come home from work with out being put in a life or death situation from my own race.


            I am a black man who was researching his own people trying to find answers and I found that site. So please Yukon don't make it out like my intentions was to look for a hate site.


            Now this may sound strange, and most won't get it but I did say it earlier in the thread. I myself hate Ni**ers, but love black people.

            Ni**ers that don't do nothing but sit on their ass complaining, living off welfare and smoking weed is who I don't like. Ni**ers that would kill me because I looked at them wrong is who I don't like.


            Black people who work, go to school, strive to be more than what they are is who I love, the problem is Ni**ers out number blacks.
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            • Profile picture of the author yukon
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              Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

              I'll tell you why I was searching the term "why do black people" in the first place.


              A long time ago, I was on my way home from work, my car was in the shop so I took the bus. I stop at the local chinese store to pick up some halls and when I came out there were a group of black guys which immediately put me in alert, hey sad but true.I had on all black, bullet proof vest that said agent and gun belt etc.


              One guy says what kind of gun do you have, I don't respond, another says that's a 9mm, they continue trying to figure out what type of gun I had and was I the police. I ignore them until I one of them said he would take my gun, and he made a gesture like he was reaching for something. I put my hand on my gun and upholstered it just a bit, after doing that they walk off.


              I became furious after that, I called my girlfriend and cousin and told them I hate black people. I never had to deal with this with whites, latin, asians etc. I quick my job the next day because I just couldn't deal with this issue anymore. Not just this situation but people in general, I developed a extremely bad attitude and it was hard for family and friends to be around me.


              The day I search "why do black people" my girlfriend and I were talking about why I left my job back in the day, and I said "I don't know why black people hate each other". Than I said matter fact let me check internet, that's why I type in that phrase. To understand why I couldn't just come home from work with out being put in a life or death situation from my own race.


              I am a black man who was researching his own people try to find answers and I found that site. So please Yukon don't make it out like my intentions was to look for a hate site.
              Look at it like this, maybe that situation was a blessing in disguise, a job that requires a bullet proof vest is obviously a dangerous job. Some people will profile anyone they think is the law, they don't see color, they see authority/control.

              At least in IM the risk are minimal.
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              • Profile picture of the author nest28
                Originally Posted by yukon View Post

                Look at it like this, maybe that situation was a blessing in disguise, a job that requires a bullet proof vest is obviously a dangerous job. Some people will profile anyone they think is the law, they don't see color, they see authority/control.

                At least in IM the risk are minimal.
                I was a cop at the time, but was coming from a security gig that I did on the weekends. But yes, all they saw was a authority figure. 2 months after quitting I did what most Imer's do their first time out, I Googled "how to make money online" the rest as they say is history.


                No bad attitude, no danger, no getting disrespected everyday.
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                • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                  Originally Posted by ronrule View Post

                  I'll tell you what, I'll make a correction to my statement - my intent wasn't to imply by any means that "all blacks use their race as a crutch" - it was simply to point out that I only see members of one race are using their race as a crutch. Somehow I suspect you already knew that was the intent
                  Well you claim to know everything about me based on the color of my skin so you suspecting my intent is news exactly how? Man up and stand behind what you said and what caused the issue to begin with. Had you said "some" just as Michelle did there would have been no issues. You DID NOT. You indicted the whole race. Further who would even care what you see? You have already demonstrated you have racist blinders on. Its a well known fact that many whites are upset about losing jobs to minorities and immigrants with different skin colors so your whole only race claim is garbage and WAS racist.


                  I've profiled you based on your comments in this thread, and nothing else. Skin color has nothing to do with it.
                  Yeah my skin color had nothing to do with it when you wrote

                  You go to a job interview that you know you're completely qualified for, and a white dude gets the job instead. Do you, knowing you were qualified, say "OH well, that guy must have been MORE qualified" or do you say it's because you're black?


                  Sorry poor try at back pedaling


                  I was making about using race as a crutch actually came from a black person and not me.
                  Please go ahead and lie about it like five more times. She NEVER said what you said. She used the word to refer to some who make that claim . You however indicted an entire race and said only they used race as a crutch. Entirely different statement. YOur claim that because the word crutch appears in both statments you are saying the same thng is just silly. One word in common does not mean the sentences are the same.

                  Now you've completely backed off
                  LOL you are totally delusional. There is no backing off. You just can't read a lick. Scroll up and you will see my point has ALWAYS been you can't indict an an entire race based on some actions AND you can't say there is only race that has used it as a crutch. BOTH rebuts Still stand. Michelle's comments made neither of those claims though you are trying hard to twist them into what you want them to be

                  and failing MISERABLY.
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                  • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                    On that subject, tell me, what other race frequently complains that they were denied something entitled to them due to their race? You still haven't named one. I don't ever hear of Japanese guys saying they were stopped by the police because they were Japanese, or Mexicans saying they were denied a job because they were Mexican. Have you? Maybe you have, I don't know. But it's certainly not as mainstream as it is among blacks.
                    Look at this - on and on with his racism trying desperately to justify it. I'm busy now or I would go into this at length. Cause brother there would be so much racism in that to go into. however

                    Yes I have heard of Mexicans claiming to be pulled over because they are mexican. They say that all the time closer to the border (George Lopez cracks jokes about it all the time. It was a big thing a few years ago down in Texas with profiling - try reading a newpaper or watching the news sometimes and stop being so incredibly ignorant). Why? because watch this THERE IS A HIGHER POPULATION OF MEXICANS there so you hear about it more there. This is where your total ignorance shows itself.

                    HOW MANY MINORITIES DO YOU KNOW In the united states that are well known to have been discriminated in for a prolonged period of time? YOU have to go back to 1942 during world war 2 to talk about Japanese and for a very short period of time. Besides African Americans only Native Indians and sit them down and see if they are not upset to this day about it. Did a light bulb just go off in your head yet? Might it be that you hear and see more about blacks because you live in a country that HAS and still does in many areas discriminate chiefly against them? but no you extrapolate that without a brain in your head across the entire world and all races.

                    Heres a related thought....You hear more blacks complaining that they have been pulled over for being black BECAUSE THERE ARE more blacks being pulled over for being black? I HAVE been pulled over and had a cop apologize to me for doing so because he had to - after getting calls there was a suspicious person in the neighborhood. Why did he apologize? Because he knew there was only one thing that could have been suspicious. It certainly wasn't my car. It was that I was black guy driving through a white neighborhood

                    Sorry man, but that's not a racist statement, it's an observation.
                    Yeah just like all blacks like watermelon cause all the ones you see eat it. Those clueless observations with no depth of thinking are EXACTLY where racism comes from.

                    If black guys consistently got higher test scores in math or something, then saying "blacks consistently excel in math" isn't a racist statement.
                    Of course it is you silly person. Its lumping everyone into one group based on race. A lot of Chinese and Asians are ticked of if people tell them they ought to be good at maths because they are asians.

                    My problem is with how you use the data. You support "racial segmenting" when the profile is something to be proud of, but when the segment is negative you say it's racist to talk about it. You can't have it both ways.

                    SEE? This is why I TOTALLY AND RIGHTFULLY call you on your full frontal and BLATANT racism. Where? Where have you seen me support racial segmenting when "it is something to be proud of"? Show me ANYWHERE in this thread or elsewhere where I as a person use this data you say I use.

                    NOWHERE... What you are doing is not talking to me as an individual but as a member of a minority, a skin color I identify with (who you have a hang up with) and drawing all kinds of stereotypical conclusions that you have ABSOLUTELY NO idea what I as an individual believe - pure grade A

                    racist

                    I have not said even ONCE Black people are good at this or that but here you are claiming to take issue with me doing so because in your stereotype mind you figured I must do so.

                    this nonsense you've been spewing, is the only point I was making in the beginning.
                    Oh you made your point and spewing nonsense is EXACTLY what it is.
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                      Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                      Yeah just like all blacks like watermelon cause all the ones you see eat it. Those clueless observations with no depth of thinking are EXACTLY where racism comes from.
                      Can we dispel one of the dumbest stereotypes here, right now?

                      Fried Chicken.

                      Who the hell doesn't like fried chicken?
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              Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

              ....I became furious after that, I called my girlfriend and cousin and told them I hate black people. I never had to deal with this with whites, latin, asians etc. I quit my job the next day because I just couldn't deal with this issue anymore. ....
              ...I type in that phrase. To understand why I couldn't just come home from work with out being put in a life or death situation from my own race.
              Now if a white person said that, you know how everyone would respond. "We" aren't allowed to make those observations.

              Now this may sound strange, and most won't get it but I did say it earlier in the thread. I myself hate Ni**ers, but love black people.

              Ni**ers that don't do nothing but sit on their ass complaining, living off welfare and smoking weed is who I don't like. Ni**ers that would kill me because I looked at them wrong is who I don't like.

              Black people who work, go to school, strive to be more than what they are is who I love, the problem is Ni**ers out number blacks.
              I'm afraid most do get it, but like I said, some of us have to feign ignorance and pretend we have no idea what you're talking about.

              Have you seen the Chris Rock video on this? Hilarious, but of course only Chris Rock can get away with it. Google "How to not get your ass kicked by the police" You'll appreciate the humor (I think).
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              • Profile picture of the author nest28
                Originally Posted by Carl Brown View Post

                Now if a white person said that, you know how everyone would respond. "We" aren't allowed to make those observations.



                I'm afraid most do get it, but like I said, some of us have to feign ignorance and pretend we have no idea what you're talking about.

                Have you seen the Chris Rock video on this? Hilarious, but of course only Chris Rock can get away with it. Google "How to not get your ass kicked by the police" You'll appreciate the humor (I think).
                The reason I made that statement was because I had many situations like the one above. If a white person had many run in with blacks like the one I describe, they would have the right to say the same thing to a degree. I mean you can't hate a race for the actions of a few,

                I felt that way because all my life I had to go through situations like that, life or death situations over nothing. It's just the way it is.


                You know what's funny though, my girlfriend and I were looking at houses in really nice neighborhoods and we were like damn, I'm black, you rican, if we stay in the hood, we have to put up with all kinds of crap we don't want to be around. If we do get out and move to the burbs, we may face racism, cuz whites will be like damn how/why did they move here. Either way were f**k.
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                • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                  Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

                  If a white person had many run in with blacks like the one I describe, they would have the right to say the same thing to a degree.
                  I have white friends that have told me black people scare them and I completely understand (cause there sitting there unafraid of me). Being down here in the south we have a backward element especially among teens that like walking near white people in a way that comes close to invading their space. Idiots. Thing is I have seen older African Americans take them on and ask them what their problem is. To be fair you'll get that from the skin head types too. Stupid knows no color but I can understand if you have only experienced it from one side how it would make you feel that way.

                  I can see many people being tired of the other kind of idiots that have to insert race into everything. Its just that Ngr and "the only race " kind of arguments isn't being tired of inserting race into everything its just inserting racism period.
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                  • Profile picture of the author nest28
                    Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                    I have white friends that have told me black people scare them
                    Black people scare each other lol. I think it's the reason for so many guns in the hood.
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            • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
              Originally Posted by nest28 View Post


              Now this may sound strange, and most won't get it but I did say it earlier in the thread. I myself hate Ni**ers, but love black people.

              Ni**ers that don't do nothing but sit on their ass complaining, living off welfare and smoking weed is who I don't like. Ni**ers that would kill me because I looked at them wrong is who I don't like.


              Black people who work, go to school, strive to be more than what they are is who I love, the problem is Ni**ers out number blacks.
              Nest in all fairness I have to say straight up. This is garbage. Bury the use of the name on both sides. Don't come up with new nuances and meanings. On this other races have a right to be upset. We both know other races would not be allowed to defend their use of the word like you just did and thats grossly unfair. Paula Dean came up with that distinction and she would be still in hot water. Its a double standard. Come up with another name. I agree with people on here onthat . Its freaking stupid for black people to be using that name in any context.

              Originally Posted by ronrule View Post

              Jeez, it really is like talking to a wall with this guy :rolleyes:
              I am not obliged to take or accept your foolishness simply because you think it makes sense to make up things that I hold to as an African American which I don't. I'd probably shock the pants off you that I lean republican on quite a few issues as well

              P.S. Ron I am still waiting on this

              Where? Where have you seen me support racial segmenting when "it is something to be proud of"? Show me ANYWHERE in this thread or elsewhere where I as a person use this data you say I use.
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              • Profile picture of the author nest28
                Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                Nest in all fairness I have to say straight up. This is garbage. Bury the use of the name on both sides. Don't come up with new nuances and meanings. On this other races have a right to be upset. We both know other races would not be allowed to defend their use of the word like you just did and thats grossly unfair. Paula Dean came up with that distinction and she would be still in hot water. Its a double standard. Come up with another name. I agree with people on here onthat . Its freaking stupid for black people to be using that name in any context.
                You right about that, I was just trying to get my point across. I'm just saying there is two totally different types to our race.
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            • Profile picture of the author Robert Michael
              Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

              I'll tell you why I was searching the term "why do black people" in the first place.


              A long time ago, I was on my way home from work, my car was in the shop so I took the bus. I stop at the local chinese store to pick up some halls and when I came out there were a group of black guys which immediately put me in alert, hey sad but true.I had on all black, bullet proof vest that said agent and gun belt etc.


              One guy says what kind of gun do you have, I don't respond, another says that's a 9mm, they continue trying to figure out what type of gun I had and was I the police. I ignore them until I heard one of them say he would take my gun, and he made a gesture like he was reaching for something. I put my hand on my gun and upholstered it just a bit, after doing that they walk off.


              I became furious after that, I called my girlfriend and cousin and told them I hate black people. I never had to deal with this with whites, latin, asians etc. I quit my job the next day because I just couldn't deal with this issue anymore. Not just this situation but people in general, I developed a extremely bad attitude and it was hard for family and friends to be around me.


              The day I search "why do black people" my girlfriend and I were talking about why I left my job back in the day, and I said "I don't know why black people hate each other". Than I said matter fact let me check internet, that's why I type in that phrase. To understand why I couldn't just come home from work with out being put in a life or death situation from my own race.


              I am a black man who was researching his own people trying to find answers and I found that site. So please Yukon don't make it out like my intentions was to look for a hate site.


              Now this may sound strange, and most won't get it but I did say it earlier in the thread. I myself hate Ni**ers, but love black people.

              Ni**ers that don't do nothing but sit on their ass complaining, living off welfare and smoking weed is who I don't like. Ni**ers that would kill me because I looked at them wrong is who I don't like.


              Black people who work, go to school, strive to be more than what they are is who I love, the problem is Ni**ers out number blacks.
              At the risk of being called a "racist cracker" and possibly being banned, allow me to welcome you to the "white side" of the fence.

              Where I live, blacks will LITERALLY assault you for looking at them wrong.

              And when I say "wrong" -- I don't mean like "mean-mugging" someone.

              I'm talking about simply making eye contact with them.

              I will NOT leave my house without my GLOCK 19, a spare magazine on the other hip, a 5 million volt stun gun, and pepper spray. (OH - and a knife.)

              My wife says I'm paranoid. I don't give a shit. I say I'm being safe and proactive.

              By her logic, those kids in Newtown, and the people in the CO theater trying to watch a movie, would have been "paranoid" to carry anything for self defense.

              I've said this a million times before, and I am saying it again now:

              It's better to have one and NOT need it, than need it and NOT have it.

              You never know these days. Obviously criminals do not obey the law in the first place. That is what makes them a CRIMINAL.....

              Although, I must say it makes me feel a little better to know that these people don't just target whites.

              Then again, the black-on-black crime rates show that they don't just target whites. So I suppose its really not that surprising.

              Either way, stay safe out there dude.

              PS - you may want to invest in some spare plates, just in case the ones you have ever need to be used.
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              • Profile picture of the author nest28
                Originally Posted by Whos That Guru View Post

                At the risk of being called a "racist cracker" and possibly being banned, allow me to welcome you to the "white side" of the fence.

                Where I live, blacks will LITERALLY assault you for looking at them wrong.

                And when I say "wrong" -- I don't mean like "mean-mugging" someone.

                I'm talking about simply making eye contact with them.

                I will not leave my house without my GLOCK 19, a spare magazine on the other hip, a 5 million volt stun gun, and pepper spray.

                Although, I must say it makes me feel a little better to know that these people don't just target whites.
                What you go through is what most young black men go through everyday. I lived in the projects with my cousin for 2 years, I wasn't from there and they all knew it. I was constantly provoked for no reason.

                I was jumped, talk down to, even got shot at. I could see the bullets sparking on the ground in front of me, just few feet away as my little cousin (age 12) looked on.

                So no it's not racist to speak the truth. Just know that were no all like that.

                I see the things some black people do and i think to myself, now I know why other races don't like us or fear us.
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                • Profile picture of the author Robert Michael
                  Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

                  What you go through is what most young black men go through everyday. I lived in the projects with my cousin for 2 years, I wasn't from there and they all knew it. I was constantly provoked for no reason.

                  I was jumped, talk down to, even got shot at. I could see the bullets sparking on the ground in front of me, just few feet away as my little cousin (age 12) looked on.

                  So no it's not racist to speak the truth. Just know that were no all like that.
                  lol I know that all black people aren't like that. Trust me.

                  My closest friends around here are blacks. Hell, my ONLY friends around here are blacks, if that says anything about the area I'm in.

                  However, I have literally been robbed/strong-armed for a measly 5 dollars at the gas station before, by 3 giant black men.. and when I say "giant" -- I MEAN giant.

                  I am 5 11, maybe 190 pounds.

                  These 3 people were each about 6' 2", weighing around 280 each.

                  This was before I ever got my CWP, however.

                  If anything like that were to happen today, I'm sorry, but those 3 men would be making the worst mistake of their lives.

                  I have to say tho.. as for the "bullets sparking on the ground in front of you" comment - LOL!!

                  You can tell the criminals based solely on their shot placement.. obviously they never attend a range to practice.

                  I can hit 13/16 shots from a pistol at 100 yards range.

                  Same can't be said about criminals.
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                  • Profile picture of the author nest28
                    Originally Posted by Whos That Guru View Post

                    lol I know that all black people aren't like that. Trust me.

                    My closest friends around here are blacks. Hell, my ONLY friends around here are blacks, if that says anything about the area I'm in.

                    However, I have literally been robbed/strong-armed for a measly 5 dollars at the gas station before, by 3 giant black men.. and when I say "giant" -- I MEAN giant.

                    I am 5 11, maybe 190 pounds.

                    These 3 people were each about 6' 2", weighing around 280 each.

                    This was before I ever got my CWP, however.

                    If anything like that were to happen today, I'm sorry, but those 3 men would be making the worst mistake of their lives.

                    I have to say tho.. as for the "bullets sparking on the ground in front of you" comment - LOL!!

                    You can tell the criminals based solely on their shot placement.. obviously they never attend a range to practice.

                    I can hit 13/16 shots from a pistol at 100 yards range.

                    Same can't be said about criminals.
                    Criminals try rapid fire, you won't hit crap with that,you need to aim, fire, allow brief second to recovery from recoil and do it all again, the guy that was shooting at me hit the ground cuz he was shooting and running away lol. I can laugh about it now I guess.


                    I have license to carry to but never do, if some one isn't trying to cause serious bodily harm or death to me or anyone around me I let things go.

                    That was drilled in my head over and over, never draw unless your in danger of receiving serious bodily harm or death lol.
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                    • Profile picture of the author Robert Michael
                      Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

                      I have license to carry to but never do, if some one isn't trying to cause serious bodily harm or death to me or anyone around me I let things go.

                      That was drilled in my head over and over, never draw unless your in danger of receiving serious bodily harm or death lol.
                      Well yeah.. when you take the class, you are taught (or at least down here) every possible scenario where you can/can't use deadly force.

                      However, if you have your CWP, you should be carrying every day.

                      There is just no reason why you shouldn't. You are legally licensed & trusted by the state to do so.

                      As I said, you never know when or where you will be when you might need it.

                      It does no good if your weapon is at home.

                      Carry - and carry often.

                      Even if not for your OWN protection.

                      Hell, you could be the one who saves a life, simply because you chose to embrace your 2A/RKBA legally.

                      Take the recent WalMart attempted kidnapping for example.

                      Yes, I understand that the officer eventually had to shoot the guy to save the child.

                      BUT -- If I seen some shit like that going down, 911 would not have needed to respond to the scene.

                      Send the coroner, because that kidnapper is already gone, and the child is safely back to the mother's arms.

                      As a fellow permit holder, you more than anyone should understand what I'm saying.

                      I'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6.. simple as that..

                      Either way - and this applies to EVERYONE reading this post, not just Nest:

                      Always be aware of your surroundings.

                      NEVER be too preoccupied with what you are doing (for example, browsing your phone, iPod, etc while walking to your car or whatever you may be doing.)

                      Danger can strike at any given moment. There IS NO warning.
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                      • Profile picture of the author nest28
                        Originally Posted by Whos That Guru View Post

                        Well yeah.. when you take the class, you are taught (or at least down here) every possible scenario where you can/can't use deadly force.

                        However, if you have your CWP, you should be carrying every day.

                        There is just no reason why you shouldn't. As I said, you never know when or where you will be when you might need it.

                        It does no good if your weapon is at home.

                        Carry - and carry often.

                        Even if not for your OWN protection.

                        Hell, you could be the one who saves a life, simply because you chose to embrace your 2A/RKBA legally.

                        For example.. take the recent WalMart attempted kidnapping for example.

                        Yes, I understand that the officer eventually had to shoot the guy to save the child.

                        BUT -- If I seen some shit like that going down, 911 would not have needed to respond to the scene.

                        Send the coroner, because that kidnapper is already gone.
                        I have full size 45, to big, I keep saying I'm get something smaller but I never do. But your right it's not safe anywhere these days, you could be in the movies and somebody will let off a assault rifle now.


                        I learned the whole bodily harm thing during training at my old job, philly doesn't require you to take any training. They also bend the law to suite their needs, they will turn you down for a license to carry if you owe parking/child support, crazy.

                        But I'll stop here, this thread is already so off topic it ain't funny lol.
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                        • Profile picture of the author Robert Michael
                          Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

                          I have full size 45, to big, I keep saying I'm get something smaller but I never do. But your right it's not safe anywhere these days, you could be in the movies and somebody will let off a assault rifle now.


                          I learned the whole bodily harm thing during training at my old job, philly doesn't require you to take any training. They also bend the law to suite their needs, they will turn you down for a license to carry if you owe parking/child support, crazy.

                          But I'll stop here, this thread is already so off topic it ain't funny lol.
                          GLOCK | Perfection

                          G is your friend.

                          Go with a compact/subcompact version of whatever caliber you are most comfortable and proficient with, and stick to it.

                          Then make sure you practice.

                          Practice drawing from a concealed position. Practice trigger pull. Practice everything.

                          Also get a GOOD, REAL gun belt (not just some thick belt from WalMart) and a good retention holster.

                          Once you do, its all about practice for the most part.

                          And yeah, I apologize for hijacking the thread as well, but if you ever need some help choosing just hit me up. I am by no means a "genius" but I do know my stuff when it comes to self defense.

                          I grew up in the Cleveland/Akron areas. I'm sure you can imagine what kind of environment that is.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      Originally Posted by ronrule View Post

      Like I said, I'll never convince you I'm not a racist and you'll never convince me you aren't ignorant. Thanks for validating the point. :rolleyes:
      You should really look up what the word validates means. It will make you at least appear to be less ignorant. Making a counter point is not a validation.

      Racism isn't taught, it's experienced
      Stupid, stupid stupid stupid statement. You've outdone yourself. Racism IS Taught and anyone that has not fallen on their head knows it is. The experience doesn't come out of nowhere. It comes out of thoughts people have that they have learnt from other racists.

      "You're nitpicking my single incident reference"

      Nitpicking? You made a belligerent stupid statement about an entire race and you have the nerve to to try and side step your race based argument by claiming I am nitpicking for calling you on it. Get some honesty.

      "I've only been the victim of racism once in my life "

      Well darn tootin dawg by golly gee Jasper One time eh? well then let me pull up a chair and learn from the master of experience. cause Lordy Lordy as an African American I need some serious teaching on what its like to experience racism.

      "But when you're being threated for dating "one of ours", it tends to change the perspective a little on who's racist and who isn't. I suppose you wouldn't know anything about that."

      Nah I wouldn't know anything about that. I mean everybody knows when I was growing up a black guy dating a white girl got treated just fine, we got invited to barbeeeecues and dances shucks they even bought us white sheets and we went to KKK meetings together.

      ROFL

      There's only one racist in this little conversation we're having right now, and it isn't me,

      Oh its you alright. You have had ample time to withdraw your 'only one race uses their race as a crutch" statement and have refused. Only thing your last post added was one of your reasons - some black people in your past didn't like who you dated so you have a chip on your shoulder.
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    was that offensive site ever removed?
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      Originally Posted by lebstyle View Post

      was that offensive site ever removed?
      No it wasn't. It's been around a while now.
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  • Profile picture of the author ronrule
    What makes you think I would withdraw my statement? I don't see any other races using their race as a crutch, or blaming their race for their post in life. Do you?

    You go to a job interview that you know you're completely qualified for, and a white dude gets the job instead. Do you, knowing you were qualified, say "OH well, that guy must have been MORE qualified" or do you say it's because you're black? You don't have to answer, your condescending attitude already did that for you.

    The difference between you and I is that, while I can acknowledge that race was a possible factor, you'll insist that it's the only factor. The thing you're missing is that I don't dispute a lot of what you're saying - you can probably cite a thousand more direct experiences with racism than I can. Heck, one of my drinking buddies complains about how often he's stopped by a police for "being a black guy in a nice car" - and I believe him, he's not making it up. The fact that there is still racism out there isn't in dispute. But you seem to think that black-on-white racism isn't contributing to the problem, and I'm telling you that it is - the majority of people today are going through their lives not giving a crap about what someone's race is, nor treating them any differently because of it. But once someone like you comes along and starts making accusations of racism, it makes them start thinking about race and potentially changes their behavior.

    They'll avoid certain people and certain subjects, not because they ARE racist, but because they don't want to be LABELED a racist. I have 3 kids, when they act up I'll say "What's wrong with you people" and think nothing of it. But if I said those exact same words to a group of black kids, I'm racist for saying "you people".

    Do you realize how ridiculous that is? Probably not. So you keep playing the part of the victim and pretend I'm just a racist white guy, and we'll just both keep to our own and segregate ourselves from each other, right? I would ask you to explain how that isn't racist on your part, but you wouldn't understand the question and would probably attempt another condescending rant.

    Racism happens on both sides, man. The problem is you don't see it. And the BIGGER problem is that there is nothing a white guy can say or do that will change your opinion. That's why I say the future of racism falls squarely on you, not on me. Afterall, the only reason I spent any time in Africa was either "white guilt" or just to be able to "prove I'm not racist", right? I'll always be a racist, pretending not to be, right? Nothing I can do - either by words or by actions - will change that mindset in you. Only YOU can do that. So no, I don't withdraw my statement. I stand by it. Label me as you will, your decision was made before I spoke anyway.
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    • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
      Originally Posted by ronrule View Post

      What makes you think I would withdraw my statement? I don't see any other races using their race as a crutch, or blaming their race for their post in life. Do you?
      I think the seemingly universal application is the problem. While it might be more prevalent in the black community it isn't everybody.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      Originally Posted by ronrule View Post

      What makes you think I would withdraw my statement?
      Nothing. Didn't I just say you refused and that confirms your racism? Please keep up.

      I don't see any other races using their race as a crutch, or blaming their race for their post in life. Do you?
      Why yes. Can you even read? I've made the point before. I have heard White people complain MANY MANY times that immigrants and minorities are taking away their jobs and blaming their plight on others when some of them need to better educate themselves. As a matter of fact it is such a prevalent sentiment that the KKK themselves use it as an emotional tool to recruit. Funny thing is I don't see Nest or me EVER making that claim because we are fine with our "post in life"? You don't see white people whining because you are too busy looking at African Americans with your racist blinders on. You are showing yourself more and more now with even more blatant stereotypes.

      You go to a job interview that you know you're completely qualified for, and a white dude gets the job instead. Do you, knowing you were qualified, say "OH well, that guy must have been MORE qualified" or do you say it's because you're black? You don't have to answer, your condescending attitude already did that for you.
      ahh give them a little room and even more of the blatant racism just pours from their finger tips. So now all black people myself included who you know nothing about blame not getting a job on their race? Dude you ARE a racist, Theres absolutely no doubt about it now.


      The difference between you and I is that, while I can acknowledge that race was a possible factor, you'll insist that it's the only factor
      Have you even asked me before answering for me or are you just assuming based on my skin color? . You are a liar. I have not nor would I insist any such thing. Truth is for most jobs I went for, before working exclusively for myself, the occupants were highly qualified and it would be impossible for me to know if I was more qualified. The stereotypes are just flowing freely from you now - nonstop.

      The fact that there is still racism out there isn't in dispute
      Then don't make ridiculous statements that its behind us

      But you seem to think that black-on-white racism isn't contributing to the problem
      Where? You are totally lying again. You just claimed in glorious ignorance that there was only one side that could end it and I said BOTH sides have to.


      But once someone like you comes along and starts making accusations of racism, it makes them start thinking about race and potentially changes their behavior.

      Then change it because if Nest complaining about Nger mania makes you change (but seriously from what I am reading there is no change needed from you ) then you were never far away to begin with and if you make racist statements like "only one race" then I will call you on it.

      T I have 3 kids, when they act up I'll say "What's wrong with you people" and think nothing of it. But if I said those exact same words to a group of black kids, I'm racist for saying "you people".

      Do you realize how ridiculous that is?
      Thats funny I have white friends who say - you people crack me up" and I don't go all bat over them. See this is whats at the heart of your anger. You have some chips on your shoulder and its where your racism flows from. You feel persecuted by some african americans and because you still see race you identify it for the whole race even to the point where in total stupidity you are claiming to know positions I take without even asking. "You people" is a phrase of exclusion so it has connotations but it has them without reference to race. Shucks my sister said you people not to long ago and I was like "what people?" sorry but I don't say "you people" to my children.


      " Probably not. So you keep playing the part of the victim"

      More stereotypes. You can't even stop them from flowing from you now. Ask around. when the junk has Mike Anthony ever posted he was a victim, talked like he was a victim much less played that he was a victim. victim of what? I might complain about racism but nowhere does that it imply it has made me weak - quite the contrary.

      Keep your stereotypical weak image of any black guy that mentions racism to yourself. I don't need your assistance or any crutch and theres NOWHERE in this thread you will see me espousing what you just made up in your stereotype laden mind about playing victim.


      I'm just a racist white guy, and we'll just both keep to our own and segregate ourselves from each other, right?
      well See I know enough white people that do not go around claiming "only one race uses their race as a crutch" so yeah.....you can keep to your group. Please do because it doesn't even represent most white people.

      Racism happens on both sides, man. The problem is you don't see it.
      fitting you should end on another lie. I see plenty of racism among blacks and have NEVER said otherwise
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  • Profile picture of the author ronrule
    The part Mike hasn't figured out yet is the origin of the statement he's arguing with. I can't actually take credit for the "crutch" statement since it's not my own, it's just one I happen to agree with.

    The statement is actually paraphrased from Michele Norris, the first African-American Female NPR radio host. This is from her site, the Race Card Project.

    As part of a minority group, it can be very aggravating when I hear others say that they were given a reprimand at work, a ticket while driving, or a bad grade, JUST because they are of a minority group. “Racist!” they yell on top of their lungs, what happened to personal accountability?!

    Most of these people were late to work constantly, were driving 15mph over the speed limit, or never studied. It is time we stop blaming our race or using it as a crutch!!!
    Yet somehow I don't expect Mike to send her a letter, informing her of how ignorant her statement is. And that's what makes him Racist.
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  • Profile picture of the author ronrule
    You keep deflecting to stereotypes, as if I was somehow describing all blacks. For the most part I was talking about you - meaning you, specifically, as an individual. I no more mean "all blacks" with my statements than you mean "all whites" when you rant about the KKK. You're very good at twisting people's words to suit your argument, but do a poor job of producing any actual counter points. Your entire argument can be summed up as "I can't dispute anything he says, so I'll attempt to discredit him by calling him racist.". It didn't work. Good effort though, most people would have given up by now.

    By the way, tell Michele and the folks at NPR I said hi when you send her that letter calling her ignorant for her statement about using race as a crutch.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      Originally Posted by ronrule View Post

      The part Mike hasn't figured out yet is the origin of the statement he's arguing with. I can't actually take credit for the "crutch" statement since it's not my own,
      It is your own. She says nothing about Africans being the "only race to use their race as a crutch". She states exactly what I have stated that some people do - not that it defines the entire race. You are back to lying again (well technically you never left but you know what Imean )

      Do some more Google searches. it aint working.



      Originally Posted by ronrule View Post

      You keep deflecting to stereotypes, as if I was somehow describing all blacks. For the most part I was talking about you - meaning you, specifically, as an individual
      Just more lying - you don't know me as an individual, you don't know what jobs I applied for and which ones I didn't get and what I blamed it on because of the color of my skin. Go ahead tell me what Job I applied for and never got? :rolleyes: Yet there you were in full stereotype mode telling me what I have done or would do based entirely on my objection to your "only one race" racist argument and the color of my skin.

      You're very good at twisting people's words to suit your argument, but do a poor job of producing any actual counter points.
      the whole reason why you are here posting away and trying to fidn quotes to back yourself is precisely because you have been nailed on your racist statements and your stereotype follow ups.. Of course you are going to bluster and claim otherwise but it doesn't change the facts

      By the way, tell Michele and the folks at NPR I said hi when you send her that letter calling her ignorant for her statement about using race as a crutch.
      I should write her and tell here you are claiming that she stated "only one race uses their race as a crutch". Maybe she could sue you for slander.
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      • Profile picture of the author ronrule
        Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

        It is your own. She says nothing about Africans being the "only race to use their race as a crutch". She states exactly what I have stated that some people do - not that it defines the entire race. You are back to lying again (well technically you never left but you know what Imean )

        Do some more Google searches. it aint working.
        I'll tell you what, I'll make a correction to my statement - my intent wasn't to imply by any means that "all blacks use their race as a crutch" - it was simply to point out that I only see members of one race are using their race as a crutch. Somehow I suspect you already knew that was the intent and instead found it more convenient to argue with a misinterpretation, but I expected nothing less.

        Just more lying - you don't know me as an individual, you don't know what jobs I applied for and which ones I didn't get and what I blamed it on because of the color of my skin. Go ahead tell me what Job I applied for and never got? :rolleyes: Yet there you were in full stereotype mode telling me what I have done or would do based entirely on my objection to your "only one race" racist argument and the color of my skin.
        I've profiled you based on your comments in this thread, and nothing else. Skin color has nothing to do with it. Nice try.


        the whole reason why you are here posting away and trying to fidn quotes to back yourself is precisely because you have been nailed on your racist statements and your stereotype follow ups.. Of course you are going to bluster and claim otherwise but it doesn't change the facts
        The back pedaling begins... I knew you were going to say that once you had that "oh shit" moment, where you realized the point I was making about using race as a crutch actually came from a black person and not me. Now you've completely backed off, insisting it was the "on the planet" reference and not the "crutch" reference, and that I just Google'd some stuff to support my point after I made it. Keep digging, man.

        I should write her and tell here you are claiming that she stated "only one races uses their race as a crutch". Maybe she could sue you for slanderous lies.
        Knock yourself out.

        On that subject, tell me, what other race frequently complains that they were denied something entitled to them due to their race? You still haven't named one. I don't ever hear of Japanese guys saying they were stopped by the police because they were Japanese, or Mexicans saying they were denied a job because they were Mexican. Have you? Maybe you have, I don't know. But it's certainly not as mainstream as it is among blacks. Sorry man, but that's not a racist statement, it's an observation. If black guys consistently got higher test scores in math or something, then saying "blacks consistently excel in math" isn't a racist statement. Yet if blacks consistently get lower math scores, then saying "blacks consistently get lower math scores" is racist? No, it's statistics. (Just to clarify, I'm making up these examples, I have no idea what the test scores are when categorized by race. Illustrative purposes only.)

        My problem is with how you use the data. You support "racial segmenting" when the profile is something to be proud of, but when the segment is negative you say it's racist to talk about it. You can't have it both ways. And thus we come full circle, why I say leave race out of it. There shouldn't be crime statistics by race, or education statistics by race, or job statistics by race. The only way we progress beyond race is to stop segmenting data by race. Which, after all of this nonsense you've been spewing, is the only point I was making in the beginning.
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    Anyway mikes got to run. Have some things coming in for some clients. You all take care now don't be playing victims while I am gone.ROFL
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    This thread has become as useful to this forum as the site in question is to the internet. I would suggest that all parties on both sides just drop it. I come here to talk marketing not politics, religion or race. Next thing you know I'll end up hating members I respected for yrs.

    So Let's just drop it. It's a hate site, in my opinion it should be taken down, some believe the site owner has a right to speak his opinion, so let's all just agree to disagree.

    Everyone have a nice day.
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    Jeez, it really is like talking to a wall with this guy :rolleyes:
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by ronrule View Post

      Jeez, it really is like talking to a wall with this guy :rolleyes:
      LMAO!

      I guarantee you'll give up before Mike gives up, ha, ha.
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      • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
        Originally Posted by yukon View Post

        LMAO!

        I guarantee you'll give up before Mike gives up, ha, ha.
        He'll do just as well to give up now because I will keep copying and pasting this and he has no answer

        Where? Where have you seen me support racial segmenting when "it is something to be proud of"? Show me ANYWHERE in this thread or elsewhere where I as a person use this data you say I use.
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