The editor of the Independent Gazette, a fairly new Carbon County tabloid, asked me why I didn’t permit anonymous postings on this blog. His question was, “Don’t you want a dialog?” I wouldn’t mind a dialog, as those of you who post comments well know. What I will not accept is anonymous postings.
President Obama recently opened a Twitter account, and the problem with anonymous comments quickly became apparent, with racist tweets involving exhortations that the President should kill himself, pictures of the President with his head in a noose, profanity, and comparisons of the President to a monkey.
If you ever wondered if much of the opposition to the President is racially motivated, I think you have your answer. If you ever wondered if racism runs deep in this country, I think you have your answer. And if you want to know what is wrong with the anonymity so prevalent on the internet, there it is.
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