Getting bombarded with MRA style hate email from this IP address: 128.197.70.67
Typical offering: I’d like to walk up to you and rip your testicles off. Then I’d break your kike nose.
While this is not true of all men’s rights activists, the more extreme ones do tend to run to the anti-Semitic, I notice. (Many choose handles that seem taken from Norse mythology, a favorite penchant of the skinhead racist right.) “Mangina” and “Jew boy” are almost interchangeable epithets in my emails. (Never mind that I’m an Episcopalian whose Jewish ancestry is on the wrong side; if you’re an anti-Semite, consider me one of the tribe.)
I’ll be posting IP addresses from hate emails from now on.
This IP address is originating from Boston University. I thought the right and MRA’s said that all northeastern schools were bastions of feminism and liberal group-think? I guess they were wrong. Ha.
http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/128.197.70.67
IP Details for 128.197.70.67
Hostname: cas70-dhcp67.bu.edu
ISP: Boston University
Organization: Boston University
Proxy: None detected
Type: Broadband
Assignment: Static IP
Anyone who has any sort notoriety has gotten hate mail. When I was 17, I wrote an advice column for the local paper. Me and my partner got stuff like that all the time. We even got hate mail for things you wouldn’t even expect, like how we used our semicolons. (You have my email, I can verify the details if you’re interested.)
We all get hate mail. It doesn’t mean you are oppressed. It does not mean those who disagree with you are skinheads. Next time you’re feeling sorry for yourself, go ask Trent Hamm about some of the pictures emails he gets.
Doesn’t reflect well on a certain subset of BU students, does it?
John, not sure where I claimed to be “oppressed.” This is about exposing the basement brigade when they hatemonger. I get 10-15 such emails every day now. And obscene messages left on my answering machine at the office (my campus phone is easy to find.) And photoshopped pictures of my wife that are unspeakable. And death threats that aren’t credible but make a father think twice. So yeah, I’m not oppressed. But I’m not gonna take it quietly from now on without at least doing the one thing I can do, which is exposing the IP addresses.
Wow, John, I think Hugo pointed out how some of the people who hatemail him probably are skinheads. I don’t recall him writing that every hate mail came from a skinhead.
It is fucking oppressive to get hate mail. It is a tactic designed to oppress. Not that Hugo made this claim — I’m making it — but there it is.
“I thought the right and MRA’s said that all northeastern schools were bastions of feminism and liberal group-think?”
Well, they like to argue that occasional episodes of anti-feminism, racism, other intolerance, etc. are not aberrations but rather symptoms of liberal ideology.
See how Robert Byrd’s KKK membership two-thirds of a century before his death was not only an indictment of him, but all of “THEEEEEE Democrats”* in existence. Or that when Trent Lott’s racism became too much and the right had to throw under the bus, they put as much emphasis as possible on how he was a registered Democrat long ago.
*Which Democrats? “The,” often used in talk radio/Nat’l Review/Human Events/etc. implies total or near-total membership. V.D.Hanson, Orson Card, etc. would be alarmed to hear that their fellow conservatives consider them one and the same with all or most elected statewide Democrats, who by the nature of a statewide primary can rarely be that far right, even in states with fairly conservative Democratic parties (i.e. Ben Nelson, Joe Manchin, etc. still have ideological rankings near the middle, comparable to the most liberal Republicans.)
I live right near BU. I’m not that shocked.
As a side note, 15% of BU’s student body is Jewish.
Meh. By Boston standards, that almost qualifies as a polite greeting.
Hugo,
Send a formal complaint to abuse@bu.edu with full headers.
See http://www.bu.edu/tech/comm/email/acs/manage/unwanted-email/report-abuse/
Ad
Anonymous 11:44: there was a time, believe it or not, when belonging to the KKK was a political requirement. I think it had mostly to do with their hatred of Catholics and immigrants, and I can imagine they were hailed for “protecting” America from their influence. Denver’s mayor in the 1920’s, Ben Stapleton, was one such member of the KKK strictly for political expediency.
John– wow. Seriously– WTF? Anti-semitic slurs are not mere “hate mail”. It’s not “feeling sorry for yourself” to call someone out on saying words that may incite violence.
Boston U. guy should just be glad he doesn’t live in Germany– where Nazi speech could land him jail time.
I agree that it was considered politically expedient for a long time; indeed, Byrd said that he developed his political ambitions around his time in the KKK (and later regretted it, noting among many other apologies, that it was really an albatross around his neck that inhibited his political operations.) The Klan was indeed a political fixture in the semi-South (i.e. West Virginia) and especially the South alike.
But I find it hard to believe that many other Senate Democrats, particularly later in his career when Dixiecrats faded from view, “admired” his racism and responded to it by promoting him, as the right implies sometimes. Like him or not, he did well in the Senate because he was a strong speaker with a good knowledge of the Constitution and Senate rules.
And those on the right who try to say racism/etc. are a symptom of progressivism should consider that Byrd was hardly that progressive; he was strongly anti-environmental regulation, strongly anti-gay-marriage, anti-affirmative action, i.e. mostly in line with the WV Democratic party, one of the most conservative in the nation (per exit polls ~1/3 of them voted for both Bush and McCain.)
I’m with Ad; send the email plus header to abuse@bu.edu. I’ve done that before when I got Tea-Party-style hatemail from corporate addresses–forwarded them to the “postmaster@corporatedomain dot whatever” address with a note that I’m sure they have an email/ network policy against 1. mass forwards of non-business-related content and 2. electronic harrassment. I also wrote that if they didn’t take action, I’d publish the whole email including domain on my blog, and that’s a context they probably wouldn’t want.
Worked every time (but then, private corporations have more to lose than academic establishments).
Worked every time (but then, private corporations have more to lose than academic establishments).
With academic establishments, you can promise to contact their biggest donors. That should do the trick.
Hi Hugo,
What AD said. That’s an IP from their pool, and it may be dynamically assigned, but if it’s been coming a lot, may be static.
This is in clear contravention of their AUP http://www.bu.edu/tech/policies/computing-ethics/ and as an admin, I know I like to know when users are abusing the system.
Hugo, what they said about BU. Also, bluntly, as a father you no longer have the liberty of blowing off death threats.