Univision's Rodner Figueroa fired for Michelle Obama comment

[CowBoE 429]

It goes to prove again...our biggest enemy is our big mouth.

This (dorky) man deserves all the financial and career penalties that will result from this.

[LibCampFireClub 635]

Yeah, the guy did a dumb thing. He surely thought about what he said afterward when he saw the affect it had on the public media. Today, that's instantly. This man's history is not one of racism, but he's edgy, and offers critique of things happening.

There is recent phenomenon that enables the public to destroy the life of people, not figuratively but, literally. All that need happen is to utter a few words and boom, you're done.

This man does not deserve this public lynching. Yeah, I'm the guy standing in the lynch mob crying out, "Hold on, Hold on." He did a stupid thing, and he's sorry for it. Public crucifixion belongs to groups who could care less about human life.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

It generally only happens to famous people.

[Boiler 45,692]

Gay, Hispanic and said something nasty about the Obama's.

What did he expect?

[rlogan 2,036]

These pictures were widely circulated during the Bush presidency, along with published cartoons, epithets like "Uncurious George", along with articles detailing how he looked like a monkey in major media pieces...

But he is a white man. So it's ok.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

That was almost entirely to do with the way Bush came across in the media - book shop humour sections had to create a special shelf for books related to GWB. It was a widely held view.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Yeah, the guy did a dumb thing. He surely thought about what he said afterward when he saw the affect it had on the public media. Today, that's instantly. This man's history is not one of racism, but he's edgy, and offers critique of things happening.

There is recent phenomenon that enables the public to destroy the life of people, not figuratively but, literally. All that need happen is to utter a few words and boom, you're done.

This man does not deserve this public lynching. Yeah, I'm the guy standing in the lynch mob crying out, "Hold on, Hold on." He did a stupid thing, and he's sorry for it. Public crucifixion belongs to groups who could care less about human life.

And you have talked to everyone of said race(s) or group(s) and they have ALL told you they could care less about human life, yes?

These pictures were widely circulated during the Bush presidency, along with published cartoons, epithets like "Uncurious George", along with articles detailing how he looked like a monkey in major media pieces...

But he is a white man. So it's ok.

These images are horrific, however, you do know these images do not carry the racist undertone that it carries when it is being compared to black people.

Please show me a time in history when whites were constantly called monkeys and people threw bananas at them?

[rlogan 2,036]

That was almost entirely to do with the way Bush came across in the media - book shop humour sections had to create a special shelf for books related to GWB. It was a widely held view.

The lynch mob always blames the victim, yes.

Also like the lynch mob, it is a wildly popular event to burn a black man to death. There were on the order of ten thousand lynchings in the US. The town mayors and councilmen attended. Newspapermen. Ministers. "Proper" ladies who would blush at a curse word being spoken. What could possibly be wrong with a lynching when it is such a widely held view?

The cause of lynchings is not because black men deserved it. It was simply because black men did not have the same rights. Nobody was going to prison for abusing a black man. The popularity of lynchings and these faux lynchings in the modern era only teaches us how pervasive this problem is in mankind.

People are quite happy to tell me how they would love to torture and kill a terrorist or a pedophile or whatever. They think I am going to hold them in high regard for being such a sadist with people that have no political cover. But what I learn is that this person has an inner sadist just waiting to come out when they think they can get away with it.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The reason its considered 'poor taste' to depict black people as monkeys is the direct result of the actions of white racists back in the day. For some reason in 2015 this is used to suggest that somehow whites are an oppressed class, which is an idea so laughable it scarcely bears thinking about.

Theres no reasonable link between Bush being depicted as a monkey and lynching. The reasons behind it were not racial. Why is it that you can't depict black people that way without being called racist? Thank long dead racist white people for that.

[LibCampFireClub 635]

Today, all that need happen is to be accused of racist or inappropriate conduct. Justice Clarence Thomas knows what it's like to be in the middle of a high-tech lynching.

[lostinblue 1,989]

And you have talked to everyone of said race(s) or group(s) and they have ALL told you they could care less about human life, yes?

These images are horrific, however, you do know these images do not carry the racist undertone that it carries when it is being compared to black people.

Please show me a time in history when whites were constantly called monkeys and people threw bananas at them?

Bush just had shoes thrown at him and the left thought it was the funniest thing ever

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/167062-iraqi-reporter-throws-shoes-at-bush-calls-him-a-dog/page-1

Just read this thread ... For Ffolkes Sake

For Ffolkes Sake

Take your stinkin' paws off me, you damned dirty ape

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Posted 14 December 2008 - 04:04 PM

That's the least that little #### kicker deserves.

I hope the guy got his shoes back

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

<p>Bush just had shoes thrown at him and the left thought it was the funniest thing everhttp://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/167062-iraqi-reporter-throws-shoes-at-bush-calls-him-a-dog/page-1Just read this thread ... For Ffolkes SakeFor Ffolkes SakeTake your stinkin' paws off me, you damned dirty ape

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Posted 14 December 2008 - 04:04 PMThat's the least that little #### kicker deserves.I hope the guy got his shoes back

The problem here is that you take one persons opinion as a massive generalisation of the opinions of a large number of people.

My issue with Bush is over Iraq, something I've been very clear about.

For you, it's all about spurious ideology that doesn't acknowledge that someone might actually take issue with the president over an issue of policy.

Bush caused the instability that has led to ISIS coming into its own. You can squirm around that however you like, but it remains the truth.

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These pictures were widely circulated during the Bush presidency, along with published cartoons, epithets like "Uncurious George", along with articles detailing how he looked like a monkey in major media pieces...

But he is a white man. So it's ok.

Exactly

White is fine

Black then it's racist

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We have National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and (UNC) United Negro College and you see advertisement all the time

But you switch out the word Colored or Negro and insert the word "White" then it is racist

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Because.... Like there is absolutely no history of racism and prejudice there,is there

Whites are not a marginalised group.