Racism is the new black.

I just spent the last 20 minutes in an outpost in Guild Wars listening to a group of five players make the most horrifying racist and misogynist comments imaginable. WTF?

This isn't the first time this has happened either, it's pretty common actually. What is it about multiplayer games that attracts this type of person? The ability to run their mouth without being physically present? And why are there so many of them? Is this representative of the population as a whole and I'm just seeing a random percentage of the population? That give me the creeps.

Do those of you that play Xbox or other online games see a lot of this too, or is this more of a PC game problem? I'd like to know.