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Regarding: WaPo Columnist Should Have Checked Out The Guestbook At Nazi Propaganda Exhibit


Over here wossname reports that some random click-n-drool hominid banged on his keyboard.

Some questions:

1) What the hell is cyber? Is it even word? Or is it just filler-text from a hot-key on some keyboard only available to newly enfranchised computer owners with access to blogging software? Something with a logo explained in an eMachine's manual as meaning "Hip phrases for the technologically challenged"?

Seriously. The only definitions I can find indicate it means:

a) to have; as in 'To have bigots'...no, I don't think so.

b) that it is somehow derived from kybernetes, Greek for "steersman" or "governor"; giving us....Steersman Bigots? Governor Bigots? WTF?!?

c) The theoretical study of communication and control processes in biological, mechanical, and electronic systems, especially the comparison of these processes in biological and artificial systems.

So perhaps he's saying "Given the ubiquity of connectivity, we in the larger society can make a close study of bigotry; its nature, how it spreads; its content; and develop strategies to mitigate its damage to the larger culture. Since we can do this, we should probably banish them before we undertake to understand how we can engage in preventative self-defense against the insidious nature of their activities."

An even bolder WTF?!?

If it has no meaning in a discourse, is it really a word? If a tree falls in a forest, does it make a bell?

2) Did Gerson suggest banishing the Cyber bigots to Free Speech Zones?

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