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Sound like someplace you'd like to move, birthers and nutjobs? Yeah? THAT WAS NAZI GERMANY.
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(Barney Frank)
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Unless of course I'm ascribing too much self-awareness to them and they really are that fucking stupid.
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This has lead me to the conclusion that some people are just going to be assholes no matter how thorough their education.
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[Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr]
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To me, this speech should be free. What troubles me (and I haven't seen the coverage of the health care protests) is when networks legitimate it as a "protest," and not hateful, venomous speech. It should be called what it is, regardless of how objective you claim your network is. Because comparing a black man who is working to improve access to life-saving healthcare, to a white man who killed millions of people in his quest for racial perfection is the most fucking idiotic thing I've ever seen.
Although, you may have a point about the free speech, because If I saw someone like this, I can't promise I woudn't be incited to violence.
08/26/09
These people screaming and shouting, holding up signs like this and comparing Obama to Hitler. Along comes a group of Neo-Nazis, you know, extras from American History X-type kids. And they're all like, "Yo awesome! We love Nazism! Heil Hitler!" and make a big ruckus, and everyone holding those fucking signs and shouting goes "Uh, wait a minute..."
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Sure it is easy to label all of these people as "dumb dumbs" or "racists". In fact these are every day average people. Misguided? sure! Misinformed? yep!
I am much more concerned with the phenomenon we seem to be experiencing that involves your average American loosing the ability to use logic instead of ideology to solve problems.
We have entire industries built up to support and reinforce specific ideological viewpoints. If I want to only get my information from a "conservative" perspective, I can get that and easily. In fact it is very difficult if not impossible to get unbiased information in this so called information age.
At the heart of it, 95% of Americans are incredibly similar, and share much the same life experiences regardless of race, color, ideology, or creed.
It is only after you run everyone through this mind numbing filter of so called "information" that is completely tailored to whatever ideological "flavor" that you choose, that we suddenly find all of these "differences" between us.
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So, instead, we can concentrate on the behavior that makes these people seem racist. I don't think if Hillary Clinton had won the presidency, we would be seeing quite the level of hysterics that accompany these protests. We've continuously seen Barack Obama portrayed as the "other," as scary and foreign. Whether it's from the Birther movement, or early claims that he was a Muslim, or that he is a fascist/socialist, attacks on him have concentrated mainly on trying to portray him as anti or un-American. You have people like Glenn Beck stating that Obama has a deep-seeded hatred of white people.
I think white people are scared that the black man has come to take their job, and there isn't too much they can do about it. They are so freaking scared that their traditional, white, christian, centrist views might not be the most popular anymore. And when this fear manifests itself in these type of protests, this is what is potentially racist, where that fear is coming from. The fear that their race and values might not be dominant forever.
So they show a picture of Obama as a brutal foreign leader of an un-American political ideology. Just one more way of showing he is "other."
And yes, I really believe I share 95% of my experiences with my minority friends. But I think it's our differences that are the most important. Our similarities, I will always understand, but it's our differences, no matter how "minor," that I need to try to understand, or at least be aware of. Or else I'm not really that much better than any of these crazies.
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Remember in Dinosaur times when this was the Obama picture in our heads?
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