Letters to the Editor

• Dear Salon: An Open Letter About Debra Dickerson

  [Read the article: Healthy, my ass]
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  How many times do we have to suffer through this with Dickerson before you "get it?" over there at Salon's editorial offices?

  Dickerson is not a voice for women, she's not a voice for African-Americans, and she's not a voice for liberals, or progressives.

  She's a voice for emotionally disturbed, self-absorbed people.

  She's a patient in need of a therapist.

  Instead of getting the help she needs, you're paying her to attempt -- unsuccessfully -- to work out her demons in public, and at our expense.

  I DARE anyone on Salon staff to tell us WHY you REALLY keep publishing Dickerson. But you won't. Why? Because the ONLY explanation for why you keep her around is that she's your paid "TROLL" columnist, designed to totally infuriate and incense people with her writing, which then generates significant page views (translates to INCOME) for YOU at Salon. She's Salon's Glenn Beck.

  Seriously, here's a recap from the Dickerson Fan Club, just in case you are looking to hand out some red stars for the RIGHT reasons...

  Many magazine publishers love controversial women and the articles they write, but having a rump the size of Debra Dickerson can put magazines at risk for subscriber sclerosis.
  

  --Anonymous

  Can DD write an article that doesn't trash people unreasonably or unfairly? This time it seemed like DD was auditioning for Meme Roth's job over at Fox. Let her go salon. ...can someone tell DD to stop writing articles about herself, and her trivial dislikes?
  -- fetboy

  Debra Dickinson should give up journalism and start a fish stall specialising in red herring. She'd clean up.
  -- JudgeMental

  For the love of God, Debs--could you _please_ either work out your self-hatred in therapy, or go home and bury the hatchet with your family? You are fooling no one with your concern-trolling about black folks and pretending to care--you hate being black and it shows in every single "helpful" piece you write. Why not duke this out with your family instead of trying to make the rest of us feel like shit? You are as bad as SALON's resident misogynists who also should take their issues up with their moms instead of trying to torture the rest of us.
  -- deering

  Every article you write is a piece of crap. Always wrong, and wrong in the worst possible way. I can't really express my distress and distaste for your consistently wrong hearted and wrong headed attitudes. But I think you need help.
  -- Ken Erfourth

  Why am I not surprised that Debra Dickerson used to "harangue" her co-workers about their lunches? What a perfectly unpleasant thing to do. It matches Dickerson's writing style perfectly.
  -- BennyBrooklyn

  Ms. Dickerson, please do better for yourself and us. I'm not generally a fan of Dr. Phil, but he might ask an appropriate question: How is writing like this working for you? How is it working for anyone?...She is castigating women. She's slinging the stones.
  

  -- LBS

  It would seem to me that many of her negative feelings stem from the early conflict with her own mother. If she wanted to write about that, perhaps it might be have been more interesting...it certainly it would be less rude. I can't believe that an African-American woman who grew up with a mother who wanted her to be less buff and who is a part of a culture that has such varying degrees of female beauty, but who decided to be a gym nut and food fanatic -- and a scold -- doesn't have a more nuanced and interesting story to tell than the one she did.
  

  -- rebecalouise

  Debra Dickerson once again is given free range to hate other black women, under the guise of sanctimoniously knowing what's best. I'm truly at a loss as to why a progressive publication continues to allot space to this hateful creature. I can only imagine that she has become "The Black Paglia", a ranting hypocrite with some distant credibility who is retained because they generate so many letters (which equal page views, ergo ad dollars).
  

  -- Howard K

  Permalink Thursday, June 7, 2007 08:05 AM

• Dennis Milligan should shut up...

  [Read the article: Quote of the Day]
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  because he's giving Karl Rove ideas.

  Not that Rove hasn't already been pondering this option himself.

  Tails will be wagging dogs before primaries and elections...just watch.

  Permalink Thursday, June 7, 2007 09:49 AM

• Yoohoo, Manjoo. We get it. You hate Obama. Joan hates Obama. Debra Dickerson hates Obama and all the other blacks. Quick, someone call Al Sharpton!!

  [Read the article: The U.S. Senate says the Internet is very dangerous]
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  Good God, Salon.

  We had to deal with today's inanities from Debra Dickerson, Salon's resident "Attack-Black" (loved that name from another LW), and now, we have yet another "something outta nothing" anti-Obama tirade from Farhad Manjoo, who is rapidly turning into Joan Walsh's anti-Obama lapdog.

  As Taritac noted -- with 18 -- count them, 18 -- Senators sponsoring this bill, Farhad singles out Obama, and Salon puts Obama's picture on the article.

  Yoohoo, Manjoo. We get it. You hate Obama. Joan hates Obama. Salon -- except perhaps for Walt -- hates Obama.

  But isn't your blog supposed to be about technology, and not some sort of passive-aggressive opportunity for you to trash candidates?

  Thanks, Taritac, for acknowledging what is becoming increasingly obvious -- Salon's decided attempts to gin up or pour fuel on the fire of absurd anti-Obama stories.

  And Salon, you do realize that with this continued campaign against Obama, coupled with Debra Dickerson's continuing tirades against anything and everything black, people are starting to wonder if Salon has some sort of racism problem...

  "Paging Al Sharpton...Paging Al Sharpton...come in, Al..."

  Permalink Thursday, June 7, 2007 06:52 PM