And a little farther down there's an addition:Peace Troll Taxonomy 101
In recent weeks, LGF has been regularly visited by "Peace" trolls. This has proven an unexpected boon for science in general, and taxonomy of peace trolls in particular. At this point, four different species of "peace" troll have been identified.
The easiest one to identify is the "Jihadi" troll. Its thinking is that the U.S. are not behaving as decent dhimmi should. If the U.S. were educated properly, they would submit to Islam. Because the Jihadi troll is a Muslim, it's obviously right, and anybody who has the gall to disagree is guilty of racism or is a ZioNazi Jew.
The second species is the anti-Semitic troll, proud member of the 'tin-foil hat brigade'. The anti-Semitic troll believes that everything it disagrees with is the fault of a vast conspiracy by the Jews. It's all written in the Protocols, and has been organized back in 53 A.D. If you disagree, that's because you're Jew, or because you are an extremist Christian waiting for the Rapture, or whatever. While the anti-Semitic troll is not Muslim, it is often pro-Arab. Anti-Semitic trolls about in any "Rachel Corrie" thread. Research is under way to use "Corrie" as a quick speciation test for anti-Semitic trolls.
The third species of troll is the "control" troll. "komis" and "reality check" are good examples, and as all control trolls encountered on LGF are not U.S. citizens. It thinks that it should have a veto on everything the U.S. does, because the U.S. is the only remaining superpower. It wants a say in how the U.S. spends its money, sets its foreign policies, runs its justice and organizes its healthcare and welfare system. Most of all, it wants the U.S. to hand over control over its military to anybody but the U.S. This being its "right", the control troll is pained that the U.S. doesn't comply, and find it extremely hypocritical that while not respecting its "right" to control the U.S., the U.S. insists it is fighting for the cause of good.
The last species of troll is the "bolchevik" troll. Anybody who studied the fight between "menchevik" and "bolchevik" will immediately recognize the origin of the species name. The bolchevik troll is a U.S. citizen whose ideology is not shared by the majority of the U.S. citizens. Because its ideology is right and progressive and altruistic, it understands that its opponents are either morons to be insulted and ridiculed for their obvious lack of intelligence, or victims of a covert and evil conspiracy by the press, the oil cartel, the Jews... It is easy to identify by the way it claims to be a better American and love America, but... not as it is, no. It has to be totally destroyed and rebuilt according to its ideology FIRST. However, the speciation of the bolchevik troll can take some time.
Of course, there are also 'mongrel' trolls. Those are the result of interbreeding between two different species of trolls, and combine the endearing trait of both categories. Note that not all types can interbreed: control and bolchevik trolls are not interfertile. Neither are anti-Semitic and Jihadi trolls. Just like mules, mongrel trolls are generally not fertile. . . .
I'd propose adding a new category, one which arguably covers NOB: the "Emotive Troll". These trolls don't take any coherent political position with regard to much of anything. Their central concern is to demonstrate how they feel things much more deeply than do we hateful warmongers. They tend to express the belief that peace is produced by repeating the word "peace" a sufficient number of times.And another:
I would submit that there is another, minor species: Trollus Petit that merely cruise in, toss in little green pineapples of contrarian thought to attract attention to themselves, and scoot along without really intending to participate in any sort of debate. Their bites are annoying, and in some cases can cause nausea, but are rarely fatal. . . .My peregrinations across the political blogosphere over the past year enable me to provisionally confirm the accuracy of these findings. Taxonomy of right-wing trolls still to be defined.
UPDATE: Some more troll types, from my comments:
Segacs says:
I'd like to add a category: the Ad Homonim troll. This is a troll whose sole purpose is to level personal insults and attacks at the writer of the original post, or at another commentator. He (or she) rarely debates the issue at hand, preferring instead to turn the conversation into grade-school level insults.Asparagirl says:
Then there's the non-partisan "totally whacked out random babbling guy" troll, which has inhabited my blog a few times.That last one would qualify as a right-wing troll, I think.
Also, the "quotes Scripture at me constantly" troll type tends to be right-wing and evangelical Christian and inordinately attracted to any posts of mine that mention sexualities other than heterosexuality.
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