Whatever my WordPress blog host did to combat spam seems to have worked. My spam filter no longer has hundreds of poorly-written requests from bots and scammers. This is a good thing.
However, apparently some people aren’t getting the message.
I shall explain.
A few months ago, I wrote about someone who created a fake charity to swindle donors who thought they were helping the victims of the train derailment and explosion in East Palestine, Ohio. You know … this blog post.
Recently, my newly-cleaned-and-spiffy spam filter has received several messages … from the same person (I won’t print their name or identity) who posted some seriously violent messages about the Israel-Gaza war.
One post suggested filling all the discovered tunnels with carbon monoxide to poison and kill everyone inside.
Another screed talks about the widespread manufacture of synthetic drugs in Gaza, which are then exported around the world.
A third said … you know what, it’s not even worth reposting here.
But those comments were all targeted at a blog post about a crisis in East Palestine, Ohio. It’s not even pronounced the same way as the Middle Eastern region – the Ohio town is East PalaSTEEN, not PalaSTEIN.
What we have here is someone using whatever keyword software to scrape words like “Palestine” an add his rantings and ravings.
I’ll make this clear right now. What’s going on in the Israel-Gaza war is way beyond anything I can summarize or opine upon in this blog. I’m not traveling down a slippery slope of saying one thing and having to defend it against something else.
What I will say is … if you’re going to comment on my blog, at least have the common decency to READ what I wrote about a subject so that you don’t send me messages about some other topic that has a similar name.
Let me solve the issues I CAN solve, and don’t ask me to decipher topics that are way above the answer you hope that I say so that you can argue against it. It’s too early in the morning to deal with straw men and hasty generalizations and all the other logical fallacies out there.
In other words … read the blog post before you write the book report on it. ‘Kay?
Chuck The Writer 
Those kind of people don’t read/ Yeah, that checks.
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