‘Kinda like a Vichy Free Republic. Cool.’
No! More like the liberation of France and removal of the scum that invaded and occupied the same. Free Republic did not have this number of ‘racist thinking’ and ‘racist seeming’ posts when I joined.
You worry about racism on Free Republic when the President of the United States is a racist for sure. Priorities?
There are kooks on every public internet forum, including racists. Jim and crew do a good job of smacking down these idiots. So do decent FR members.
That said, any poster with a member since date after 2006 is suspect in my mind, simply because there have been (and always will be) coordinated efforts by sneaky trolls to make FR look like a racist site. Heck, we've already seen coordinated 'attacks' on the Team Sarah site to infiltrate, assimilate, then spew racist garbage.
It can happen anywhere. I wouldn't be surprised if local ACORN chapters have guidebooks on how to do this.