I know, I know. The phrase is Do Not Feed the Trolls. But for this once, I’m going to have to break that Internet rule of thumb because this troll exemplifies the epitome of the Are You Thinking? category.
Anyone who has read my blog knows I’m happily married to my wife who is from the Philippines. I’ll always stand in the gap to defend my wife and awesome daughter like a husband and a man should. My wife is a smart and tough gal having gone through things that would give a number of Americans a nervous breakdown. That was life in the Philippines. You get tough quick or die. So she can handle her own with the normal trolls of the world.
However, normal trolls on the Internet attack a person’s stance on a topic. You don’t cross the no-no line and use the Internet to make a personal attack. Most of the trolls know why you don’t do that. Knowing the rules and how to act civilly is beyond this troll though. Let us analyze the insults to see just how dumb the insults are.
The main insult was: all this wonderful information coming from a person who wouldn’t even be in this country if it wasn’t for some looser who had to buy a wife…lol…
From this insult we can discern the following:
Punctuation – Largely absent
Capitalization – They didn’t bother.
Spelling – If you are going to insult me, spell it correctly. “Looser” is not a noun. It is an adjective that describes what your pants are if you lose weight.
Generally, an insult has a bit more impact if your grammar can exceed that of my 1st grade daughter. Lazy on the international display of your skills or didn’t do much while in K-12 school? Usually a person should demonstrate mastery of his or her only language before they attempt to attack a person who can fluently read and write 7 languages.
Now the content gives us more clues. “who had to buy a wife”
If you are going to sling a racial slur, do not pick a time when Martin Luther King Jr. is getting a lot of press for making advances against racism. Also, the reference to mail order brides demonstrates a profound amount of ignorance of the world. Those have been banned a long time ago by the USCIS. Wives are not to be purchased as if they were slaves on the black market. Try and join the rest of the world in this millennium.
In a collection of other attacks, this ubertroll demonstrated a profound lack of knowledge of the world and a questionable learning curve. Every country has something that is their trademark specialty. Americans are known for their love of sports especially the big 3. Switzerland is known for their high quality merchandise, banking system and Swiss chocolates. For the Philippines, their specialty is music. I’ve already written on this before though so go here. Telling someone they should sing on Filipino Idol when most of the past 7 seasons of American Idol contestants would never make it on the show is a compliment. Trying to declare they can’t sing well but saying they should go on a very difficult show is contradictory and demonstrates blatant ignorance. Saying a person who has won several singing contests in a city of 400,000 by singing many of the Disney movie theme songs is a bad singer makes a troll either ignorant or tone deaf.
Lastly, it has long been shown that a gifted and talented individual takes 1-2 repetitions to learn a topic. The average person takes about 4-6 times. The slow learner is usually in the 7-10 range. But after reading 2 years worth of blog entries over the course of many hours and seeing the word Filipino hundreds of times, this troll managed to misspell the word Filipino (proper noun) as “phillipino.” Failure after a massive amount of repetitions is off the charts in the wrong direction.
Oh well, a miserable person lashing out at people in personal attacks really needs to focus on getting their own life straightened out first. Knowing what the letters TOS stand for would help too. But you can’t expect trolls to learn. That is why this troll is the epitome of the Are You Thinking? award winners. I may not be able to top this one.
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