Yes, they are so bad I looked for an abuse button. Too bad they don’t seem to have one. That anonymous what a real jackass.
For some reason anonymous un-moderated forums bring out the worst in some folks.
I posted a thread last week on FR about the new commuter railroad between ABQ and Santa Fe banning photographs out the windows while traversing Indian pueblo lands (no matter that this section of the ROW has been in passenger use for well over 100 years). My link was to a local TV station that has a comment forum. It didn't take long for it to fill up with all of the worst, hateful racist, ethnic stereotypes about Native Americans that one could imagine. Responses by those on the other side of the coin were made largely by the bleeding heart types that believe we must continually defer forever to the sensitivities of the Indian people due to their treatment by first Spanish, then Mexican and finally American conquerers. The thread had filled to nearly 400 posts when the station yanked it. Very little constructive discussion on the free speech issues involved here (taking a picture from a public right of way).