| The people who claim to speak for Conservativism in America are insane. |
[Jul. 12th, 2009|09:59 am] |
The comments referenced in this news article thoroughly disgust me (italics are direct quotes from the article)...
Conservative "Free Republic" blog in free speech flap after racial slurs directed at Obama children
"A typical street whore." "A bunch of ghetto thugs." "Ghetto street trash." "Wonder when she will get her first abortion."
These are a small selection of some of the racially-charged comments posted to the conservative 'Free Republic' blog Thursday, aimed at U.S. President Barack Obama's 11-year-old daughter Malia after she was photographed wearing a t-shirt with a peace sign on the front.
The thread was accompanied by a photo of Michelle Obama speaking to Malia that featured the caption, "To entertain her daughter, Michelle Obama loves to make monkey sounds."
According to the article, some of the other comments made included:
"Could you imagine what world leaders must be thinking seeing this kind of street trash and that we paid for this kind of street ghetto trash to go over there?"
"They make me sick .... The whole family... mammy, pappy, the free loadin' mammy-in-law, the misguided chillin', and especially 'lil cuz... This is not the America I want representin' my peeps."
"This disgusting display makes me more and more eager for the revolution,"
"I never actually wnated [sic] to be a pistol before but..."
According to the report, a writer, who had referenced the site to do some research on the American conservative movement, complained about the racist tone of the posts. In response, not only did the site owner keep the post up, but PUBLISHED THE COMPLAINING EMAIL AND THE WRITER'S EMAIL ADDRESS!
The writer has a point," wrote site owner Jim Thompson sarcastically. "We should steer clear of Obama's children. They can't help it if their old man is an American-hating Marxist pig."
"I agree Jim," wrote commenter, by the nickname NoobRep. "The kids didn't pick their commie pinko pansy of a father. Nor did they choose to be put into the spotlight. But Obama/Soetoro is fair game and so is his witch of a wife."
"Poor kids. I hope they're not 'punished with a baby'," wrote another. "Hopefully they won't deal cocaine like the Kenyan."
"DIRTBAGS! All of them. Our [White House] is now a joke to the rest of the world. We have no respect and this is not going to turn out well, mark my words. We will be hit, and much worse than last time. We are now seen as weak and vulnerable. Ghetto and Chicago thugs have taken over."
And, yes, the article does say that there were those who complained about the vitriol. Unfortunately, in my opinion, those who spoke up against this kind of ugliness were far outweighed my the rampant hatred found in the other replies.
As one commenter put it, "Poor libs .... Too late, the battle has been joined."
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I know that evil like this still exists in the world, but it still leaves me in shock every time I see it.
Free Republic is supposed to be one of the leading websites for discussion from the conservative "grassroots" movement in the U.S.. Is this REALLY what the conservative movement is supposed to be all about!? I mean, I know conservatives... I have friends who are conservatives... hell, some of them are READING THIS POST! And I know... I KNOW... that this doesn't represent them. But, JESUS, the people referred to in this article sound flipping INSANE! Some of them are talking about ARMED REVOLT! I mean, I know that there's plenty of overblown rhetoric from the left as well, but I've never seen any sort of organized discussion of starting a WAR! (In fact, I can't think of a time I've seen someone say something like that, where I haven't seen them get SHOUTED DOWN by other lefties!) But I've been seeing this sort of thing coming out of the right for a while now, and lately, it's only gotten WORSE.
I decided to go and read over the Free Republic forums , so that I wouldn't just be talking out of my ass here. Much of it was people discussing various policy and news items from a conservative viewpoint. I generally don't agree with their rational, but at least in most cases they HAD one (usually, their arguments were fine... I just disagreed with the premises they started from). But some of them... OMG! There were people on there who INSIST that President Obama is a MUSLIM and the ANTICHRIST! That the Left is FASCIST! (Note... Fascism is a "right-wing" political philosophy. The equivalent on the left would be COMMUNISM. If you're going to call names, at least get it right!) That democracy is a bad form of government, because it's the rule of the majority, and the majority are SINNERS! There was even a thread where people were commenting on the fact that most U.S. Christians are NOT "Christians", and they will all be destroyed in the coming Apocalypse, and THEY WANT TO HELP IT ALONG! I swear to God, a lot of what I was reading there TERRIFIED me!
(And if you'd like to read it, well, you can go looking for it yourself. I'm not linking to it. There's no way I want to help this sort of poison be spread.)
Please, all of you rational Conservatives out there... I may not agree with you on many things, but the right-wingnuts have taken over your movement, and they claim to be speaking with your voice! Please... PLEASE... Don't let the crazies WIN!
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