I just read this essay in Jewish World Review and think the author, Kathleen Parker, makes an excellent point about the danger that many blogs bring to civilized humanity (and the ortho-sheigetz ones to the Jewish community). I refer most notably to that scumbag ursine sheigetz, about whom the following applies in abundance:
"I mean no disrespect to the many brilliant people out there — professors, lawyers, doctors, philosophers, scientists and other journalists who also happen to blog. Again, they know who they are. But we should beware and resist the rest of the ego-gratifying rabble who contribute only snark, sass and destruction.
We can't silence them, but for civilization's sake — and the integrity of information by which we all live or die — we can and should ignore them. "
Why do rational well-intentioned bloggers out there, like Gil Student of http://hirhurim.blogspot.com tolerate and act politely towards the creep of the Jewish internet? Gil in this comment is stating what has been obvious for well over a year: That this Dov animal has no decency. His unwarranted attacks on good people he disagrees with, such as Rabbi Emanuel Feldman and Toby Katz is so beyond the pale that he deserves nothing but reproach and condemnation from good people like Gil. I expect the other ortho-sheigtetz blogs like (...) to say nothing. After all, they are made of the same cloth of leitzonus and evil that gave Slifkin the impetus and morale to dig his hole even deeper than it had been before the initial cheirem.
I know that this post will subject me to his ridicule. But that is nothing new. I know that he has seriously insulted and offended regular people, whose feelings have been seriously hurt, and who don't have the layer of fame that frequently excuses people from attacking others.
That this sheigetz deserves condemnation is nothing new. What is newly deserving of condemnation is Gil's benign tolerance of such scum.