Neighbors furious after person hangs mannequin from tree next to Confederate Flag (federal, country)

[Partial Observer]

Originally Posted by Tokinouta

Usually, racists own it from my experience.

You haven’t spent much time on this forum, have you? In my experience, racists vehemently deny being racists, and then accuse everyone else of being racist.

[Old Gringo]

Trumpling response:

"It's not a depiction of a lynching! It's Halloween decoration, just like she said. On May 31st. She's just off by exactly 6 months, is all."

"We ain't racist!"

[Pilot1]

Originally Posted by boneyard1962

She is racist and unfortunately unashamedly so. Sometimes freedom of speech is abused. Many Americans don't like the hateful things this woman's expression says, me included. That said, ignorance isn't only found in whites.

No freedom of speech is not "abused". It is for things in which we may disagree, or dislike.

[reneeh63]

Originally Posted by neko_mimi

That's your problem. Not hers.



Since when are mannequins a race?

Oh true...they're all white! Geez, you've never seen a non-white mannequin? Where did you grow up?

[jburress]

Originally Posted by neko_mimi

That's your problem. Not hers.

Never said it was her problem. I said it would bother me if I was her neighbor.

Originally Posted by Pilot1

This happens every Halloween also where people hang some type of ghoul like figure that isn't even Black and people cry LYNCHING!

Why would it bother you?

When's Halloween? On my calendar it's Oct. 31st. If she did it for Halloween I wouldn't mind.

[boneyard1962]

Originally Posted by Pilot1

No freedom of speech is not "abused". It is for things in which we may disagree, or dislike.

Freedom of speech is absolutely abused and everyday. Fortunately there are penalties for some it. Slander is punished. Except when done by the press. Our media is absolutely guilty of abuses.
Yelling fire in a theater is punished.

People driving through a black neighborhood flying a confederate flag in the back of their truck is abuse. They are not doing it to make a statement, they are doing it to harass the populous. When the clan burns a cross? When elected reps spread disinformation, or state partial truths to drive an agenda?
Yeah freedom of speech is abused and abused often.

[Floorist]

Originally Posted by boneyard1962

Freedom of speech is absolutely abused and everyday. Fortunately there are penalties for some it. Slander is punished. Except when done by the press. Our media is absolutely guilty of abuses.
Yelling fire in a theater is punished.

People driving through a black neighborhood flying a confederate flag in the back of their truck is abuse. They are not doing it to make a statement, they are doing it to harass the populous. When the clan burns a cross? When elected reps spread disinformation, or state partial truths to drive an agenda?
Yeah freedom of speech is abused and abused often.

You forgot, when blacks yell derogatory things at whites. Oh I forgot, blacks can't be racist.

[Eumaois]

If it is on the property you own, you are within your rights of displaying such an abomination but should you display it?

[Pilot1]

If people don't like it, just drive by and don't look. Ignore it. What's so difficult about that. Why do they always have to make a Federal case out of it?

[nedergras]

Conservatives don't just resort to petty vandalism or intimidation, that's a leftist's mo, and remember Arkansas is home to the Clintons, and went Democrat. Don't forget that even in the reddest of red states, there's always an angry liberal.