Hate Speech - or Joke?

166

Daiwa

on Oct 29, 2008

What a sad commentary that it's come to this....

Not to worry. Nancy Pelosi will take care of it for us.

167

Dr Guy

on Oct 29, 2008

DrJBHL

reply 4

Quoting Wizard1956,
reply 3
I beleive all the hot air released during this election year will greatly increase Global Warming.Hey,maybe I can get beachfront property in central Illinois!

*poof* there go the icecaps .... will you please watch where you wave the wand Wizard1956?!?!

Wave away! I got property in Arizona, and would love to go for a swim.

168

unclerob

on Oct 29, 2008

cplair

reply 14

The KKK might not like it

That's funny as hell Jafo!

But, to curtail any thought of malice, controversy or fear of offending, I am a Black Man.

Now, ask yourself:

If this was a Nazi uniform, would all the Jews, Hungarians and Homosexuals be offended and rush off to the Museum Of Tolerance?

If she was dressed as a Turkish soldier vintage 1915 - 1917, would that anger all the Armenians who's ancestors were caught up in a near genocide?

If she dressed like Rev. Jim Jones, should you run out and hide all the Grape Kool-Aid out of fear of it being spiked with cyanide?

I'm not one of those oppressed minority members sitting around all day pointing fingers blaming the world for keeping me down for 400 years.

Why?

Because nobody can.

I'm well versed in both US and World History, and I find that as time passes, HISTORY has slowly eroded into HIS-STORY.

Bottom line people, you have the freedom of choice. And it is your choice how you want to walk through life.

It is also your prerogative to sit around all day and let pictures like this piss you off too!

CHOICE! Have the common smarts to use it wisely.

The most surprising thing I read in there was the fact that you're a black man....

Just kidding.

I like your style Curtis, keep it coming - I love reading your posts bro!

Seriously the best part of the entire quote is this, Bottom line people, you have the freedom of choice. And it is your choice how you want to walk through life. In a nutshell, if you can follow this as a rule of life, you'll be ok and these photoshop tricks among other things will be seen as amusing rather than offensive and you won't spend your time or energy feeling hurt or offended. If I had to spend my entire day thinking about what is offensive against me, I would never get anything done. It's focusing on what's offensive, instead of what's good & attractive that keeps you in that mindset of how bad things are in the world and how nothing is really that good.... and regardless of how much bad there is out there, there is alot of good as well, I'd rather focus on that and consider the photoshop trick above as something amusing and leave it at that.

But that is my choice, it's not yours. If you have to complain go ahead - we can't control you, only you control your own actions, thoughts & responses to certain things including funny photoshop tricks.

169

unclerob

on Oct 29, 2008

little-whip

reply 10

The point (which so many of you numbnuts missed) was that the Klan was not originally formed 'to support slavery'. Slavery was already dead and gone by the war's end...at least that particular form of it. We all know that a sharecropper's life was SO much better for those freed slaves, right? The ones that remained on the land still worked it, often putting in longer hours than they did under their previous 'masters', but they didn't own it and in fact they often owed the landowner more than what they'd produced would bring, introducing them to a new master...called DEBT.

But that's a whole 'nuther story.

I have never denied that they were a white supremacist group, so you can take back all these words you've put in my mouth and choke on 'em for all I care.

RE: Skinning...While it's certainly made Brad Wardell a very wealthy man, I cannot imagine a more useless activity to spend your days on, but hey, whatever floats your boat.

I loathe the forced crossposting mainly because I'm not always 'nice' (as you've seen) and I find you artsy-fartsy types far too delicate and emotionally retarded to play with.

I don't know of ANYONE on EITHER side of the wonderful world of Stardock who actually LIKES this crossposting, but as someone already mentioned, complaints fall on deaf ears, so deal with it....mmk?

All I can say is WOW!

I've never ever heard skinning referred to as a more useless activity. I guess that's your opinion, you're entitled to it - I never ever thought I would read that type of comment on this site ever.

Seriously!

Is skinning limited to just dressing up windows & your pc's applications?

Couldn't consider things like improving your appearance by going to the gym, getting your hair & makeup done, manicures/pedicures, getting your car detailed, painting a room in your house, etc, etc, etc, as all different forms of skinning? Making things look more attractive is just natural human nature.

170

unclerob

on Oct 29, 2008

little-whip

reply 2

What I'd like to know is this...

Yesterday a female McCain volunteer was the victim of a mugging while withdrawing cash from her ATM machine. She handed over the money as the robber demanded, but when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on her car, proceeded to beat the crap out of her and carve a large 'B' (for Barack) on her face.

The perpetrator was black, his victim was white.

Is HE going to be charged with a HATE CRIME?

I doubt it. Why? Because he's black, that's why. And we all know black people aren't capable of hate. Right?

Uh-huh.

Ouch and Ouch again, she's full of these zingers... WOW!

171

TheD2JBug

on Oct 29, 2008

Daiwa

reply 1

I've seen the Obama monkey stuffed animals... the Obama/Osama bullshit ...

And that's worse than what the left has been doing to Bush for 8 years in what way? And Palin hung in effigy is OK? If you ask me, it's all fair game so maybe we actually agree. Look forward to lots of hateful characterizations of our next president over the next term, whoever wins. It's the American way.

Yes , and it's contremptable that Palin was hung in effigy.

The irony is when Palin was hung in effigy , the apparently left wing radical Keith Olbermann condemned it and named that asshole that posted it , his Worst Person In the World in his show this week.

Palin will just sit there and read her precious talking points when assholes shout 'kill the nigger' at her rallys.

Note the diffference here.

172

TheD2JBug

on Oct 29, 2008

little-whip

reply 2

What I'd like to know is this...

Yesterday a female McCain volunteer was the victim of a mugging while withdrawing cash from her ATM machine. She handed over the money as the robber demanded, but when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on her car, proceeded to beat the crap out of her and carve a large 'B' (for Barack) on her face.

The perpetrator was black, his victim was white.

Is HE going to be charged with a HATE CRIME?

I doubt it. Why? Because he's black, that's why. And we all know black people aren't capable of hate. Right?

Uh-huh.

Now that we know that this was a hoax

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj1DxAowkGM

.... Although I agree with you . Black or white , Jew or Gentile . We're all as equally capable of love , and we're all as equally capable of hate.

173

Daiwa

on Oct 29, 2008

Palin will just sit there and read her precious talking points when assholes shout 'kill the nigger' at her rallys.

It would be helpful if there were specifics you could offer to support this allegation. Far as I know, there was only one episode where it was alleged that someone in the crowd yelled 'kill him' (with no mention of 'nigger') which turned out to be a fabrication - the Secret Service detail in the crowd said no such thing happened. I'm open to hearing about confirmed actual events, but characterizing her rally attendants as 'assholes' who shout 'kill the nigger' would not seem to be helpful, particularly if it is based on a myth.

174

MadDeez

on Oct 29, 2008

i forgot my promise to myself

175

starkers

on Oct 30, 2008

Freedom of speech isn't as free as you think.

When I was a young tearaway on a high powered motorcyle, a cop pulled me overand started writing me a speeding ticket, then he started checking out my bike for any illegal modification (of which there were some), bald tyres and wrote me another ticket for and unbaffled 4 into 1 exhaust... then one for a bald rear tyre.

Me, being the smart arse and rather pissed off, said to him: "If I was to call you a dirty rotten low down bastard you'd p0robably write me another ticket, wouldn't ya??

"Yup, if you called me that I would most definitely write you another ticket... or two!

So then I said to him: "If I was to tell you to go and get well and truly effed, you'd probably arrest me for using obscene language in a public place, wouldn't ya?"

"Yup, I reckon that I would!"

So then I said to him: "But if I thought that you could gop and get well and truly effed, you couldn't arrest me for thinking it, could ya?"

"Nope, I couldn't arrest you for thinking it!"

So then I said: "Well I think you can go and get well and truly effed!"

Bastard lied.... he arrested me anyway.

Moral to the story: freedom of thought ain't so free either...if you think of something that'll get ya in the shit/get up peoples noses, don't think out loud.

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lulapilgrim

on Oct 30, 2008

Moral to the story: freedom of thought ain't so free either...

Freedom of speech isn't as free as you think.

You've got that right, LW. But freedom isn't the absence of authority, but in being held to obey only just and legitimate authority. Our American heritage was built upon freedom of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness....freedom of religion, association, speech, etc.

Reminds me of a quote from Charles Kingsley that goes something like this....

We are not free to do what we like, but we are free to do what we ought to do...

But we are no longer one America, a united people, a melting pot dedicated and working for the common good. Rather , we're divided into special interest groups that clamours for freedom to do what we like..and expect the government to deliver....and it does and in doing so, we lose freedom.

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DrJBHL

on Oct 30, 2008

But we are no longer one America, a united people, a melting pot dedicated and working for the common good. Rather , we're divided into special interest groups that clamours for freedom to do what we like..and expect the government to deliver....and it does and in doing so, we lose freedom.

You meant Unity, I believe.

What's equally bad are the Politicians who should be statesmen.

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lulapilgrim

on Oct 30, 2008

You meant Unity, I believe.

I meant freedom....

we're divided into special interest groups that clamours for freedom to do what we like..and expect the government to deliver....and it does and in doing so, we lose freedom.

As an example, take the pro-abortion crowd who clamour for abortion on demand...(when an abortion occurs, the baby in the womb lose his freedom to be born.)

Take the Christian religion and so called separation of Church and State....why should a person of religious faith be forced to give up his freedom of conscience and be forced to pay (through taxation) for things like education, medical practices, and same sex health benefits, etc, that violate their moral principles and conscience?

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TheD2JBug

on Oct 30, 2008

Daiwa

reply 12

Palin will just sit there and read her precious talking points when assholes shout 'kill the nigger' at her rallys.

It would be helpful if there were specifics you could offer to support this allegation. Far as I know, there was only one episode where it was alleged that someone in the crowd yelled 'kill him' (with no mention of 'nigger') which turned out to be a fabrication - the Secret Service detail in the crowd said no such thing happened. I'm open to hearing about confirmed actual events, but characterizing her rally attendants as 'assholes' who shout 'kill the nigger' would not seem to be helpful, particularly if it is based on a myth.

SOME of them . Just like SOME ( a small number, actually ONE ) people hang Palin in effigy . There are assholes on both sides , sir. However the big difference is how the respective supporters handle it.

If a picture is worth a thousand words , what is a video worth?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw3o3y77MaA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIgv992NZs0&feature=related

And we've now had two plots to kill Obama so far uncovered by the SS . Sooo....

180

TheD2JBug

on Oct 30, 2008

lulapilgrim

reply 19

You meant Unity, I believe.

I meant freedom....

we're divided into special interest groups that clamours for freedom to do what we like..and expect the government to deliver....and it does and in doing so, we lose freedom.

As an example, take the pro-abortion crowd who clamour for abortion on demand...(when an abortion occurs, the baby in the womb lose his freedom to be born.)

Take the Christian religion and so called separation of Church and State....why should a person of religious faith be forced to give up his freedom of conscience and be forced to pay (through taxation) for things like education, medical practices, and same sex health benefits, etc, that violate their moral principles and conscience?

Ok , they can stop paying taxes. They don't need police , fire , anything like that... Let God protect them, It's God's will , isn;t it?