2012-08-16 HS Kirja-arvostelu:Jim Thomp­son:Val­koi­nen vi­ha (Hel­sin­ki Whi­te

[MW]

Jim Thompson pääsee varmasti vastaamaan koordinoituun hyökkäykseen forumilla, ei muuta kuin esiin vaan.

Tervetuloa, Jim Thompson. Pidän nimikaimasi kirjallisesta tuotannosta enemmän, mutta se ei kuulu tähän.

Surely Jim Thompson is allowed to respond on coordinated attack on him at this forum, come on in.

Welcome, Jim Thompson. I like the works of the other Jim Thompson more, but that's not relevant.

[Tapio Äyräväinen]

Jim Thompsonin kirja on oksettavaa paskaa.
Hyi saatana!1

[Miniluv]

Olisikohan saanut peräkammarilinkin jostain ja luullut, että nyt hänet on blokattu?

[MW]

Olisikohan saanut peräkammarilinkin jostain ja luullut, että nyt hänet on blokattu?

So0n salaliitto.

[coscarnorth]

Huoh, melkoisen itsesäälistä ruikutusta Jim suoltaa tuolla Murder is everywhere -blogissa:

My mistake was believing that the public at large is interested in the welfare of all—that an objective examination of the situation from differing viewpoints might be valued. That was idealistic bullshit. I made a mistake and learned a lesson. It isn't wanted or valued. To not take a side is to be the enemy of all. I offered Perussuomalaiset/Basic Finns a guest blog, and because I'm a man of my word, if they wish, I will honor it, without comment from me.

[KJ]

and this article was reposted today on International Crime Authors Reality Check, which had had well over 3,000,000 visitors. Some thousands of people will read this today.

Heh.

[l'uomo normale]

Onkohan olemassa mitään toivoa, että tämä nykyinen dekkarimania hiukan rauhoittuisi ja ihmiset jaksaisivat löytää dekkarien sijaan kehittävämpiä kiinnostuksen kohteita?

[siviilitarkkailija]

What the F-word. Who the H-word is this Jim Thompson and why is he crying like a baby?

First things first. HS is crap paper. If you got your book reviewed in HS, obviously you get brown reviews. Secondly, before hating, one would like the courtesy of knowing who or what one is supposed to hate? Thirdly, people have right to opinions and there is no statutory order to like or apperciate things somebody writes. There is no even mandatory order for all to read what a Jim Thompson writes.

Don't get me wrong, I could write a book review based sole on what is stated above. Many journalists do. Giving some inside information to what a book reviews are worth. But things dont work that way in homma. We got to have some true content and some real stuff before we burst the dams and start crying. Let alone value something or someone worth hating.

[Eldritch]

What about the other voice? The voice that criticizes immigrants. They have a site nearly exclusively for that purpose. Homma forum.  It has hundreds of thousands of posts on it, although—I can't help myself and have to take a look at it once in a while—it reads as if many of them are written by sock puppeters, users with multiple accounts holding conversations with themselves.

The discussion concerning me has been viewed by well over 4000 readers.

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A comment to my post, "I quit" says Homma Forum (Finnish political website stats as of 3 days ago) 1,092,302 posts and 8087 members

In other words, the old favourite of "the enemy is hopelessly outnumbered, powerless, fearful and already more or less defeated, but also lurking everywhere, may strike at any moment, and present a clear and imminent threat if immediate steps are not taken to destroy them." It never gets old watching these people performing logical somersaults to accommodate both of these into a single belief system.