“Slandering”. Okay, how about this....
To the Moderator, if Chris Parry and a couple of infiltrators were the only ones sliming Malia Obama, then why yank the post? Personally, I would have left it up so the world could see what the left is all about. You should check out the comments on some of my YouTube vids. I could delete them, but I found it educational to let the libs speak.
Yanking the thread implies that there may have been some agreement with what was planted, and a PR scrubbing was in order. Is this a mistaken impression?
I wasn’t on that one, but here is what I’ve put together seeing what happened. It was initially yanked, as all racist posts are, however, things started to look fishy when the KOS kids jumped on it early and most of the bad posts where by new folks. We restored it initially because we wanted to show how long time FReepers where trashing the race baiters, we figured the ankle biters would add 1+1 and see how FReepers dealt with racists. It became a point though, where it was too much to babysit so we finally just pulled it. It wasn’t all newbies, but it was unusual that there was a date range of sign ups (sept-nov of 08) where many of the posters where coming from.
Hold up there, FR doesn’t tollerate Racism. So heck yea the post should have been removed.
I suffered racism as a child, I know what it’s all about. FR is not even slightly Racist. Does that mean that screwballs from DU or Kos don’t come here posing as FReepers only to pop off onto racist crap oh yes it happens, often. And they get banned, rightly so. Where the line gets drawn is when a REPORTER posing as a neutral credible source plants this crap, posts it at Kos and then reports it as if he didn’t have anything to do with it. Thats pure 100% BS.
That is the fault of the idiots posting that crap, NOT Free Republic, which has the RIGHT to remove posts and articles it considers as offensive. It’s policies are clearly statedd, and absolutely fair. If people don’t like those policies, they are free to just read or not, and or go to another site to post on.
Please, back off of Jim and FR, they are NOT deserving of any beat down, they did the right thing, by EVERYONE.
Racism should not be tolerated, either from the form where someone practices racism against another or some “victim” of racism tries to get something for it. Both are using racism to further their own ends and BOTH are wrong. I can speak with authority on this, I have suffered it, and never have I asked anything for it, I rose above it and did my thing and succeeded.
FR doesn’t tolerate it. Good on em!
“Personally, I would have left it up so the world could see what the left is all about. You should check out the comments on some of my YouTube vids. I could delete them, but I found it educational to let the libs speak.”
Then along the same lines, how would you feel if someone wrote an article titled “Bob Parks is a raging, crazy Liberal”...
I feel certain you wouldn’t like it and yet you did it to ALL of us. You didn’t have to use the word ‘all’ to paint me and every one of the good, upstanding people here as racists.
I tell all kinds of people that FR is the BEST conservative site out there. Then when they read headlines like yours they see ME as racist.
That is just plain wrong.
Why don’t you apologize for calling me a racist? I’m a FReeper and you wrote that FReepers racially slurred Obama’s daughters.
I asked why you were painting us with such a broad brush. A question is not an answer. Why are you slurring FReepers?