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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
« Reply #1170 on: October 02, 2012, 02:14:15 am »
http://www.zephoria.org/images/blog/2012/09/RacistSubwaySign.jpeg

These ads are already getting defaced.

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/09/25/903431/pam-geller-new-york-ads-racist/?mobile=nc
http://mondoweiss.net/2012/09/subway-ad-gets-a-make-over-revealing-its-true-character.html

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For what it’s worth, Pam Geller’s group originally won the right to post 10 of the “savages” posters around New York City. As of this writing, all 10 have been torn, defaced or completely taken down.
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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
« Reply #1171 on: October 02, 2012, 02:27:06 am »
http://www.zephoria.org/images/blog/2012/09/RacistSubwaySign.jpeg

These ads are already getting defaced.

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/09/25/903431/pam-geller-new-york-ads-racist/?mobile=nc
http://mondoweiss.net/2012/09/subway-ad-gets-a-make-over-revealing-its-true-character.html

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For what it’s worth, Pam Geller’s group originally won the right to post 10 of the “savages” posters around New York City. As of this writing, all 10 have been torn, defaced or completely taken down.

I find this to be an interesting First Amendment study, really. On the one hand, it is the right of the douche bags to say stupid shit and thereby put up those posters. However, I also find the defacement (sans the tearing them down) to also be a matter of First Amendment rights. The Racist and Hate Speech stickers they're sticking on them strike me as responses to this stupidity. And while I think they have a right to spout their stupidity in the form of putting up these signs, I don't think they should be shielded from the consequences of their stupidity.

The right to free speech allows the douche bags to say what they want but it also allows everyone else to point and call them douche bags.

My take on this, anyway. Don't read much into it, I am very sleepy.
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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
« Reply #1172 on: October 02, 2012, 04:24:00 am »
Considering I consider the signs to be a defacement of basic human dignity, I think it's understandable that I consider the defacement of defacement to be perfectly fine.

...Nah, nothing as pretentious as that.  It's good ol' fashioned schadenfreude, and I shall enjoy every second of that.
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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
« Reply #1173 on: October 02, 2012, 10:09:18 am »

I find this to be an interesting First Amendment study, really. On the one hand, it is the right of the douche bags to say stupid shit and thereby put up those posters. However, I also find the defacement (sans the tearing them down) to also be a matter of First Amendment rights. The Racist and Hate Speech stickers they're sticking on them strike me as responses to this stupidity. And while I think they have a right to spout their stupidity in the form of putting up these signs, I don't think they should be shielded from the consequences of their stupidity.

The right to free speech allows the douche bags to say what they want but it also allows everyone else to point and call them douche bags.

My take on this, anyway. Don't read much into it, I am very sleepy.

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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
« Reply #1174 on: October 02, 2012, 10:27:33 am »
For clairification the racist stickers they say are bad cause they didnt get a permit

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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
« Reply #1175 on: October 02, 2012, 03:59:00 pm »
Is it just me, or is anyone else using Firefox getting a "THIS IS AN ATTACK PAGE" warning when they try to go to ThinkProgress?
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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
« Reply #1176 on: October 02, 2012, 04:03:52 pm »
Is it just me, or is anyone else using Firefox getting a "THIS IS AN ATTACK PAGE" warning when they try to go to ThinkProgress?

I get the same thing. "Of the 3233 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 11 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent."
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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
« Reply #1177 on: October 02, 2012, 07:50:19 pm »
Ok, I didn't get a chance to take any pictures(I was on my way to work), but the Democratic nominee for the congressional district I live in held a press conference, and there were a few anti-choice idiots protesting. One sign read: Stop Obama's war on Catholicism.
Hey asshat, what about Catholicism's war on women?? Stop throwing a hissy fit over that your insurance companies have to provide birth control coverage for women who choose to use it. What part of it will prevent abortions don't you fucking understand?? Also what part does not everyone who uses birth control uses it for sex, some women have lady parts that don't function that well?? Don't cry about religious liberty, when you're not respecting the liberty of others in what they do in private, liberty is a two way street, honey. Yet another reason why religion has no fucking place in the medical field.
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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
« Reply #1178 on: October 02, 2012, 08:17:16 pm »
Re the Savages poster

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0vJkw4sfP4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0vJkw4sfP4</a>

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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
« Reply #1180 on: October 03, 2012, 07:33:00 pm »
Alas, I'm not white.  I'm sort of a pale pinkishtanbeige color.

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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
« Reply #1181 on: October 03, 2012, 08:33:44 pm »
I'm as pale as a vampire and I don't think I'm "white" enough for these people XD
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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
« Reply #1183 on: October 08, 2012, 12:36:28 am »

Thing is, I already embrace my heritage. I just do it without being an ass.

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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
« Reply #1184 on: October 08, 2012, 12:52:06 am »
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Thing is, I already embrace my heritage. I just do it without being an ass.
Ditto.

And I should also mention that being part Cherokee... oh yeah. Of course I would be subject to No True Scotsman attacks by such people because I have one "Exotic" ethnicity in my heritage. Racist assholes.