Posted on 07/10/2009 9:53:00 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
I don’t have a problem with poking fun at the Obamas in general and certainly not with critizing them. While I don’t think it’s a good idea, I also don’t think being critical of Michelle Obama or the peace sign shirts was off limits, either. But I think it’s a lot more constructive to just to stay away from race because it walks right into a very effective stereotype the left has hung around the neck of the right. That said, there are still some comments made here and some articles linked to that make me wonder and in every case where I’ve asked a moderator to look at a message or reply, it’s been pulled, even though my comment is usually that I don’t think it looks good and the moderator should use their own judgement to evaluate it. And for the record, I’ve never hit the abuse button for an Aunt Esther picture. If you really want, I can dig up examples (I’ve done it before) and obviously Jim Robinson felt there was enough merit to this particular complaint to start a thread about it.
I can’t hep myself...I have to ask...what was the statement??????
Yes, I know. Didn’t think we should draw undue attention to that unfortunate fact. I’m sure the DailyKOS management will delete all that cruel, mean-spirited stuff from their website as soon as they discover it’s there. Probably planted there by unscrupulous conservative trolls, btw.
acutally checked out one of those threads, which was done right after Bristol gave her interview to Greta. I could only handle one thread due to the utter stupidity posted. However, there really wasn’t anything negative about Bristol that I saw. Several of the comments were actually supportive of her.
Kos posters have a complete and total disregard for human life, and they clearly beleive that sex is something completely appropriate for everyone...with everyone...whenever. But I didn’t see any Bristol trashing on the thread I read.
By the way, our moderators ha to ban a cute and fuzzy little lib troll called “jazzguy” today when he attempted to post this:
“All of you stupid, ignorant, racist assholes WILL burn in hell. And you better believe it!”
And I later received the following love note from him:
“You all need to die NOW!”
jazzguy (jzguy5@hotmail.com)
No different than using the term "white trash."
I refuse to be cowed by the PC thugs and as long as the mods don't object, neither do I.
The comments that I read were directed at Malia and her cousin who was with her. They were the same comments posted in this article. They were not directed at Michelle. Most of the “ghetto” comments were made by one poster, who just kept posting them over and over again.
He looked like an extra in a rap video.
And you will lose sleep over this creep’s message..right??
My moral values are not determined by the moderators.
Well good for you, Sandra Dee.
I don’t think the racist element hits 10% but I do think a small real racist element is there. It’s not only the particularly nasty comments about things like Michelle Obama’s appearance but it can also be seen in the black on white crime threads and some threads about other things like education.
Free Republic was excellent at stopping this sort of thing in the past but two things changed. One was 9/11 and a lot of general anti-Arab and anti-Muslim “euphemisms” were given a pass because of the anger against Islamic radicals and the other was an attempt by white supremacist groups to use Free Republic as a recruiting ground (messages were found on their message boards to that effect) and while that was resisted, I think some have stuck around for the long haul. That, combined with a lot of other issues lead me to believe, in general, that race relations are getting worse, not better, because both sides are playing into each other’s stereotypes.
People need to remember that all it took was one idiot with a toy monkey with an Obama sticker on it at a Sarah Palin rally to make the media argue that her supporters were racist. I’ll go back to the crap in the soup analogy. It doesn’t matter if there is only a drop of it. If you put a drop of crap in the soup, it spoils the whole thing and nobody is going to want to eat it. Racism is like that on the right. Even if it’s a drop, it spoils everything it touches.
Again, all of this said, the abuse button works pretty well, the moderators and reasonable, and challenging the racism tends to help, too. So the takeaway message here is that the Freeper readers can also help police the site because the moderators can be everywhere.
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I agree, you made your point very well, without profanity or insulting langauge. I would change your reference to an “insult to our military” to include that it is insulting/offensive to the American people that President Obama (and his family) represent. President Obama should behave in a manner that reflects badly on him nor his country and neither should his family. I would also say (looked at the thread briefly and left) the attire of Malia’s apparent companion was even less appropriate than hers.
When they do posters here should be free to point it out but they should adhere to high (hopefully) personal standards as well as those stated by the creator of this forum. If we do that we should ignore criticism from the left, as they will attack regardless.
It is also clear that they are not bothered by the tone or the language in the referenced thread, they simply attack it to quell descent. Judging from many of the posts, following an attack, it works .
Better Sandra Dee than the KKK.
So much for rational discussion.
Silly me. My fault.....sorry and all that stuff.
Yeah, you ended that with Sandra Lee.
I miss the days of Zell Miller.
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