Racist Barack Obama T-shirt - CNN Interview With Dumbass Repuke

[Yes We Did]

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Unbelievable! Disgusting! Fucking Repukes!

Bravo CNN for taking this asshole to task! ON Edit: The only thing that pisses me off from CNN is why the hell would they go and find a picture like that to slide next to the pic of the monkey?

Fuck them too.

[FARAFIELD]

1. Some of his best Friends are BLACK

I was waiting for him to say it, CLASSIC.

[coriolis]

2. I sure am glad no Democrats have ever stooped to calling Bush a chimp.

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[Yes We Did]

4. That's not the same damned thing and you know it!

How dare you, really! You must be on the wrong website.

[coriolis]

5. Actually, I don't know it. Would you please explain it to me?

Pretty please?

[calmblueocean]

7. I'd be glad to.

Context makes a difference.

Whites don't have a history of being demeaned as a race by being compared to monkeys, so comparing GWB to Curious George doesn't carry the same cultural baggage or have the same meaning.

The implied jibe with GWB would be that he himself is chimplike. It's an insult, but its locus is strictly GWB. It doesn't go beyond that.

The implied insult with Obama does. It plays on a history of racial insults and prejudice. Its message is more like, "Obama may be running for president, but he's still a nigger, and will always be less than a white person."

Part of the insult is the ability for the wearer to claim that they're just making an innocent comparison of Obama and the face of a children's book character.

[grannylib]

11. You explained that succinctly and very well; I agree. It's not at all

equivalent, given the history of such insults to African Americans as a whole; with the Little Imbecile, as you note, it's very specific to HIM, not his race or those of his ethnic background or anything like it.

[coriolis]

15. Millions of creationists would take issue with that claim. They resent it just as much

as any racial group. But I see what you mean...it's a highly visible manifestation of political correctness. Thanks.

[progdonkey]

31. Seriously, why are you here?

You think telling a creationist that he descended from apes (and the horrible emotional toll that would take on the poor idiot) is the same as calling a black man a monkey?

You really don't see the difference and think it's just a "highly visible manifestation of political correctness"?

Go away.:puke:

[mythyc]

10. there's a youtube explanation here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yReF29eTPVU

[Lautremont]

12. Let's compare:

The history of comparing black people to monkeys in a derogatory fashion (as if there could be a complementary fashion): hundreds of years old.

The history of comparing rich jerkoff quasi-Yalie draft-dodging cokehead fundy numbskulls who look like chimps, to a chimp: approximately eight years old, and restricted to one specific worthless individual.

There it is, buddy, with sugar on top and just for you.

[coriolis]

16. Okay, I dig that...but I'm white and I'm perfectly comfortable with being a descendant of

simian/ape ancestors.

[L4TRUTH]

19. DIG This

I'm black, and I'm perfectly comfortable being a descendant of ape ancestors in terms of evolutionary thought; but I'm not okay with someone comparing me to an ape as a means to demean me in racial terms. Unfortunately, that is the history of blacks in the country. That was one of the justifications for slavery, jim crow, etc., that we were "sub-human" (akin to apes) and therefore the act of racial oppression was justified.

I will say that GWB should not have ever been called a chimp, no matter what the reason. It's just disrespectful.

[Barrymores Ghost]

22. In GWB's case, it's disrespectful of the chimp.

Otherwise, I think your reply is spot-on.

[Dumak]

24. guess what...

Humans, in our current form, are both simians and great apes. No need to qualify it with "descendant of".

[stanwyck]

26. Not descendants. We share common ancestry.

We didn't DESCEND from apes. Perhaps your science teacher didn't teach Darwin's theory of evolution.

[nachoproblem]

27. Sorry to nitpick but

the common ancestor of us and modern apes was also an ape, as are we. I'm pretty sure your science teacher would've caught that one.

On the other hand, creationists believe we are descended from a lump of river clay, which I find even less encouraging than being compared to a monkey.

[ann_american2004]

21. And they are both bad

hurtful and just plain wrong. i dunno why people have to compare each other to animals and things in such a demeaning way. It is really crazy. Like for instance, I cant stand hearing chicks all the time. Chicks, chicks, chicks, all day long. I'm not bright yellow. I have nice smooth skin. Not feathers for goodness sake. I dont squeak tweet squeak all that often either. Or what about bitches? Geez - I HATE that term. I dont walk on all fours and pee on fire hydrants. It is disgusting for the demeaning term bitches to be used in music and in slang, everyday language. As if it isnt demeaning and wrong. I dont have a muzzle! I dont go bowwow often either. Women are not bitches and hoes. Hoes? I havent been in the garden in ages. Give me a break!

[angstlessk]

30. there ain';t a bitch in the world that pees on fire hydrants..those are male dogs..

sorry!

[Donkeykick]

8. I would never be so bold...

as to insult chimps. :smoke:

[fascisthunter]

3. What's Worse about Racists... they are too Afraid to Be Honest about It

cowards... afraid of physical differences to the point of hating those same people for it. Pathetic...

[Hutzpa]

6. Fuck CNN for using that doctored picture of Obama,

did you see that photo of him, its doctored and I think CNN should
be taken to task for that.

FUCK CNN!!


:grr: :grr:

[thunder rising]

9. Isn't that image copyrighted? hmmmm, I wonder who owns it?

[thunder rising]

13. Curious George Curious George By H. A. Rey, Margret Rey, listed as copyrighted material on Google.

[Gato Moteado]

14. what a redneck piece of trash! if i were obama, i would try to buy one of those....

...and wear it on the campaign trail to show the world how racist the US still is while at the same time showing what a good sense of humor he has.

[Writer]

17. You know, after listening to him, I don't think he's a racist, but I think he's racially ignorant.

Or at least completely ignorant to this old stereotype of African-Americans and doesn't understand why people would be angry.

I don't think he holds ill will toward Obama's being black.

[mythyc]

20. why then did he say this

"Look at him, he's got huge ears and a huge smile, which is absolutely disarming" -- emphasis added: this gives him away for the racist piece of shit that he is. he said it not once but three times.

[Writer]

23. I don't think this guy understands that he's racially stereotyping.

I don't think he MEANS to be racially insensitive, regardless of how racially insensitive his comments are.

I think we're dealing with ignorance here, not malice.

[nachoproblem]

28. I don't buy it.

I mean, it's possible but unlikely.

More likely he's just playing dumb because there's no way to prove what he knows about the customs of racial stereotyping, as obvious as it may be.

[mythyc]

29. I don't buy it. u'r not accounting for the "absolutely disarming" phrase, its insistent repetition

and if he didn't MEAN to be racially insensitive, he wouldn't be combative, he wouldn't aggressively wave off even the potential for people to find this offensive, and he wouldn't admit that he's open to making more of the t-shirts.

[Cronus Protagonist]

18. Obama should co-opt that idea

I'd buy a few to support his campaign. And he does look like the little guy.
Cute as a button.

[Megahurtz]

25. What a Disgusting Redneck Pig!

Dumbass. Listen to that slob talk. :puke:

Fuck him!