Comments on Wright just too much

I’m an old-fashioned guy.

 

Or, you might say I’m a stick in the mud.

 

You know. I don’t carry a cell-phone, although the day is coming when I probably will have to, and my computer skills are still pretty rudimentary.

 

I do love the internet as a research tool and even as a source of entertainment. However, I am more likely than most to see its dark side.

 

By dark side, I mean the ability it gives to racists, nut jobs and other creeps to say whatever they want whenever they want with anonymity and without accountability. I can’t stand it.

 

An example is the reaction to the news this week that former Thomas R. Proctor and Syracuse University basketball star Josh Wright had been arrested. Whatever anyone might think of Wright or his culpability in the matter, he and the reading public didn’t deserve the kind of extreme trash talk – much of it blatantly racist – that I saw on one newspaper comment page. Besides being ignorant beyond belief, much of it also was demonstrably inaccurate. It should be taken down in the name, at the very least, of good taste, a virtue that is rapidly eroding in our country.

 

This kind of thing does nothing to get to the truth and eats away at a sense of community.