10 11 / 2016

I visited Celebitchy.com today. It looks like it has become a place for upset Hillary Clinton supporters to gather spew negativity about everyone else. The personal attacks on everyone  who didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton are unseemly. That is the reason I was banned from there. I was asking people show some civility towards the other side. But Kaiser would have none of that.

It looks like everyone who doesn’t support Hillary has been banned from the site and it has become a complete echo-chamber. Here are some choice comments from today’s article about elections:

Kaiser: “Do I have to apologize for thinking the same thing? Like, all of you Trump voters in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida and North Carolina: I think you’re stupid.”

Other commenters:

“Trump supporters are stupid, racist and sexist and they deserve everything bad that is going to happen to them through Trump. I have no sympathy for them”

“We can blame the people that voted third party. They had the power to change this election and they threw their vote away. Voting third party in this election was the same as not voting. There were enough third party votes that, had they gone to Hillary, we would be having a very different conversation right now. ”

“Like it or not stupid racist white women are also to blame for this disaster. If you are going to believe the polling numbers for white men, then you need to look at everyone else and the numbers for white women voting for that trash box were high”

“ A vote for Trump means you’re stupid. Period. ”

And so on. You get the point. The anti-Trump articles get hundreds of comments while gossip ones get 20-30 comments. I guess the Celebitchy.com writers figured out that political controversy yields more clicks because the site now starts to look more like Huffington Post lite. But I don’t think they’ll be successful in rebranding. First of all, Kaiser is just not that good or smart enough of a writer. And second, Huffington post doesn’t censor the mildest dissent.