I saw at least one of the threads. I also saw the letter Jim received before he deleted the thread(s), which makes me wonder if they weren’t prompting Jim to delete it so that they could quote all they wanted from the deleted thread(s) with no-one able to verify or see that it was a small sampling? Yes, there were some racist or mean remarks (mostly against Michelle, not the girls). Yes, this needs to quit on FreeRepublic- it cheapens our arguments and gives fuel to our enemies.
HOWEVER, I believe the bulk of the racists comments are in the Chris’ article, and they were not the bulk of the responses to the thread. (In one of the threads, I noted, POLITELY, that I would not let my 11 year old daughter wear shorts that short.) Additionally, I would not be surprised if some of the racist comments were added there by leftist trolls.
I saw the responses and was a little surprised. Many of them, however, said she’s an 11 year old kid and that’s what they are wearing these days. For the few really mean ones, there were many more saying “don’t mess with the kids”.