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Back when we were kids we were cruel. We used to take gym sneakers from other kids, tie them both together and toss them up to hang on the utility wires. What did that symbolize? Nothing. If it were done today with today's political correctness crap I guess it means we want to hang the CEO of Nike or Avie or Ketchers. How utterly ridicules. This guy is a kook, why give him any attention.
Ever get behind some one with a bumper sticker on their car that said something with no meaning to you? It's not making a statement if no one but no one knows what it means.
Well we saw different things then, because I saw the same behaviours with Bush (W). Only in his case, additionally people other than no-names also got involved (entertainers), making comparisons with Hitler/Nazis that was extremely offensive to those I knew who had to endure concentration camps during WWII.
This! Absolutely. While I wasn't a fan of GW I found it very offensive that people were equating him to Hitler just like I find it offensive when they do it to Obama. I even had a chat with some folks at the Oakhill post office that were waving pictures of Obama with Hitler mustache on it. For as much as we don't like a particular president's policy, to compare either to one of the ugliest monsters in the 20th century and comparing their policy to GENOCIDE is deeply troubling and shows that those people have no grasp of history or reality.
This! Absolutely. While I wasn't a fan of GW I found it very offensive that people were equating him to Hitler just like I find it offensive when they do it to Obama. I even had a chat with some folks at the Oakhill post office that were waving pictures of Obama with Hitler mustache on it. For as much as we don't like a particular president's policy, to compare either to one of the ugliest monsters in the 20th century and comparing their policy to GENOCIDE is deeply troubling and shows that those people have no grasp of history or reality.
Godwin's law.
I'm sure before Hitler it was some other universally acknowledged "ultimate evil" person/being/thing.
It's funny/sad how everything always devolves to lowest common insult denominator: "Your guy is closest to Nazi/Hitler, so I'm right, and you're wrong".
There's never any real thought as to whether folk fighting for, say, mechanisms for balancing the budget, can actually in any objective reality be compared to genocidal, racist freaks who murdered millions under the rule and direction of a megalomaniac mustachioed crazy monster with a God complex.
You've never seen such nastiness before because every year it gets worse. Civilized discourse in this country is devolving. Whether Obama or Romney is elected this next election, it's only going to get worse. If it's Romney, and this type of stuff happens, will people say it's because he's Mormon? And GW had to endure a lot of ridicule as well. I lived in Seattle while he was president, and my son would ride the school bus and the first -fifth graders would say the nastiest stuff about him, essentially parroting their parents, calling him a Nazi, etc. I saw a weekly picket line at Green Lake where people were calling for him to be impeached because of war crimes and people calling him an F*ing idiot. That's not particularly civil. When we told people we were moving to Texas they rolled their eyes as if somehow everyone down here was a neanderthal because he'd been governor.
All of that is common. Who DOESN'T have a political/personal opinion about whomever is in office.
But the heckling and interrupting President Obama during his speeches... Joe Wilson yelling out "YOU LIE"...etc. COME ON. Please. That is on a COMPLETELY different level. It was very cringe-worthy and embarrassing to witness a state representative having a tantrum while yelling "YOU LIE" to the PRESIDENT???!!! I was embarrassed for him. That outburst was ridiculous and unnecessary. You can say civilized doscourse in this counry is devolving...but it has been taken up 1,000 notches with President Obama in Office.
That he agreed with Clint Eastwood's speech at the RNC maybe....
Wrong. That point would have been made with an empty chair and maybe a flag. But hanging the chair with rope in a tree is obviously symbolizing the invisible Obama being hung up in a tree...
You have to be ignorant of history or racist to not see it...
Until all the older ppl die off we are just gonna have to deal with their racism....
What's worse is now they pretend they aren't racist....especially on facebook or what not. hey racists, i remember u in high school...stop pretending...
Wrong. That point would have been made with an empty chair and maybe a flag. But hanging the chair with rope in a tree is obviously symbolizing the invisible Obama being hung up in a tree...
You have to be ignorant of history or racist to not see it...
That's exactly what I said. He could've made his point with the chair sitting in the middle of his lawn with the flag attached to it. He took it a step further and HUNG the chair from the tree. LOL. And again, said he did that to keep the chair from getting in the way of his lawn mowing duties. That's hilarious.
...within recent events (Eastwood's appearance @ repub convention)....definitely a pointed (and racist) reference. Dude had to walk back that reference 'cuz he got caught (and caught on tv)...
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