It seems that every time someone speaks out against President Barack Obama, they are labeled a racist. This is no different in the case of a new poster appearing in Los Angeles depicting Obama as The Joker from The Dark Knight movie. This depiction is "racist" and "mean spirited" but when it's pointed out that Bush was first depicted as the Joker, the racist accusation is not dropped. "Lynchings" of Obama in effigy are called racist, but there was no outrage when Sarah Palin was "lynched" in effigy some time ago. There is a moral double standard on the left when it comes to treatment of the President.
I have put up a few comparisons for you to decide what you think.
Effigies:
The Joker:
Now please explain to me, preferably with coherent, rational thoughts, how the defamation of Obama is racist while the mean spirited attacks against Palin and Bush (and I won't even go into the Cheney pictures) are "just jokes" and "free speech".
3 comments:
Could it be Matt, because we have a history of lynching African Americans??? Do you see the connection is pretty obvious?! Its setting up for some crazy to take a shot at OUR president. What you should really be worried about that the Conservative/Republican party have been left in a power vacuum and the loonies are in full control!
Gerald, I totally understand where you're coming from with the lynching thing. BUT, why is it ok to lynch Palin or Bush? Shouldn't it be just as wrong for one as the other? I agree that it's in terrible taste to hang the President in effigy, but I think it's equally as bad to do it with other public figures, regardless of their race.
Gerald, if you want to talk about history get your facts straight. Who were the slave owners? Southern Democrats. Who fought the Civil War with the express idea of keeping Africans enslaved? Southern Democrats. Who created the KKK? The Southern Democrats. Who lynched African-Americans? Southern Democrats. Who fought to defeat the Civil Rights movement in the "60s"? Southern Democrats. That's the history you choose to ignore.
Obama may be YOUR President but he isn't mine! Go ahead use your race card now, it doesn't mean a thing! I'm not a Democrat, Southern or otherwise!
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