UPDATE: ALBB To Ban Readers Leaving Repeat Laughing Emoji Faces That Are Anti-Black Racist, Islamaracist, Transphobic or LGBTQphobic
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UPDATE 4/18/2025: Longtime reader Carman Johnson requested that these people keep their connection to A Little Beacon Blog. In a Comment at Facebook, Carman said: “Why block them? If you keep them on the page it shows other people how incredible inappropriate they are.” Therefore, so that Carman can have at ‘em with her Crossing Guard stop sign, this person has been reinstated to ALBB Land. However. ALBB reserves the right to put these people into Time Out sometimes to take a break. Teamwork Makes The Dream Work. Thank you, Carman!
Being tolerant and polite has become too painful in these parts. From now on, readers of A Little Beacon Blog who respond to awareness pieces with laughing emoji faces when responding to anything cultural, Black, Brown, Arab, Palestinian, Muslim, LGBTQ will simply be blocked from ALBB’s Facebook and Instagram, wherever it happens. Emails to the editor will be tolerated, and then eventually you will be unsubscribed from the newsletter if you continue to abuse the editor’s inbox. Should things get really bad, we will find your IP address and block you there as well so that you can’t even get to the website. And if you try to do so from your phone, we’ll find that IP address too. We’re watching you.
Yesterday, ALBB re-shared a pro-Islamic awareness piece that the Union of the Social Security employees of New York, AFGE Local 3343, shared with their readers. It said: “When one group is attacked, the rights and freedoms of all are at risk.” This was a quote that Antoñio Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General, made on March 15, 2025. AFGE Local 3343 noted that they posted the message on International Day to Combat Islamaphobia.
One of ALBB’s regular readers, Robert Mickey McCarroll, responded with a laughing emoji face. Just pure bullying and immaturity. Therefore, in an act of combating Islamaphobia, we are blocking Robert from his armchair bullying at ALBB. If he would like to explain himself to say why he felt a laughing emoji face was appropriate, he is welcome to submit an explanation. Others like Robert who regularly leave the laughing emoji faces on pro-Black, Islamic, Arab, Palestinian, LGBTQ content will also now just be blocked.
Another person who responded with a laughing emoji face recently was the leader of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, when he responded to a United States Federal Judge, who ordered that the deportation of 238 Venezuelans, who were being flown to stay in a prison in El Savador, be stopped (the United States is paying El Salvador for these people to be kidnapped to prison there - how DOGE approves of this expense is beyond logic).
The leader of El Salvador tweeted on X (formerly Twitter) in response to the U.S. Judge: “‘Oopsie … Too late,’” followed by a laughing emoji face, The Guardian reported.
“Oopsie…” because he’s giddy with the money he is about to get from the United States who is kidnapping people, branding them as “criminals” or “terrorists,” and then paying El Salvador per head. Why does this make sense, if DOGE is here to save money.
Putting our reader relationship out of its misery.
