I was torn for the title of this diary. Either "Full Frontal Racism" or "Racism; the Full Monty" . . . whatever is up there is what I finally decided to go with.
There was, however, no indecision on what this is:
It was
put up Wednesday by a group called
AMERICANS AGAINST BARACK OBAMA with the tag line:
No matter what you do you are still ugly...SAL
You know, you can believe that someone is ugly without going full on racist about it. But this group is nothing but. And it's interesting to see that a majority of it's memes are liberal memes that they have taken, words erased, and then they put in their own. Little to no creativity there. I guess that's one of the costs someone pays when they reach this level of hate and racism.
But hey, they aren't the racist, they say, we are. And in their defense (after this image had been reported many times yesterday [if you want to report it instructions are below the squiggly] someone (re)posted this Americans Against Barack Obama image in their comment section:
Because, like, it's completely the same! Everyone knows that for over 200 years white men have been portrayed as monkeys in editorial cartoons, books, newspapers, general conversation, etc.
Not
You may find the Bush facial expression comparisons tasteless and classless, but they are not racist. And they certainly do not harken back to the centuries old racially motivated tradition of comparing Africans and their descendants to monkeys.
And that's something, unfortunately, that a significant portion of the "other side of the aisle" does not seem to understand. You can dislike someone to their core, you can dislike everything a person stands for and every policy they come up with (whether you know what that policy is or not) and still not resort to racism to express your displeasure.
Yes I will, and others will, still poke holes in the facilities that are posted as truths, and we may have our suspicions that one of the major reasons you don't like Barack Obama is because he's black. But to modify Mark Twain a bit, you don't have to open your mouth or post an image/meme and remove all doubt.
But as long as you do, don't expect it to stand without comment or action.
There are many times we don't agree with him either.
The Reprimand Project ---
pic
To report this racist meme , click this link. Then go to the bottom of the image click "options" then report it (you have 2 windows to complete the reporting process)
(edited to remove satire meme because it really had nothing to do with this story, and I'm thinking these updates are getting long)
I'm still looking for the meme that was posted a few weeks ago that identifies Facebook as the app for discovering which of your friends and family are racist, bigots, homophobes, etc.
I lost two this week due to their Islamaphobia.
10:00 AM PT: Something must be happening.. AMERICANS AGAINST BARACK OBAMA must be feeling some kind of heat because 2 hours ago they posted a call for people to "defend" their page from liberal trolls.
DEFEND THE AABO PAGE!
YOUR HELP IS NEEDED...
Look at the messages in 'Recent Posts by Others' on the Main AABO Page.
Help us fight these attacks from the Liberal Trolls!!!
They are deleting liberal or objecting comments on the 'Recent Posts by Others,' but it seems they aren't quite so fast on the pics they post.
11:20 AM PT: From what I've seen (and those of you on facebook know how stuff goes around) there are many liberal facebook pages also (re)posting this racist drek calling for reporting.
Reviewing another picture on the page (posted 3 hours ago) are these words:
You can whine all you want. You can cry to Facebook every minute of everyday. You can have Mark Zuckerberg personally lick your salty tears. But every time you ask a picture to be removed it will be reposted. Enjoy...SAL
Here to fore I just hoped that the racist meme/image would be removed . . . let them keep their image of an eagle taking a dump on President Obama's head. But after this promise threat that they will continued to cross over the line from dislike to racism, maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea for the
page to go. My thoughts, anyway.
12:28 PM PT: The heat it on!
They've turned off the 'Recent Posts by Others' section ... so now people can only respond to the comment sections in their posting or just report page, pics, posts to facebook.
9:11 PM PT: At about 8:04pm PDT AMERICANS AGAINST BARACK OBAMA called for "payback" to the Witty Liberal page - because they seem to think that the Witty Liberal page was the only page that had/has a problem with their racist meme.
They are urging there members to report the page . . . for what violation, I do not know.
The problem for Witty Liberal stems from the fact that they left a trail, sharing the racist image directly from the AMERICANS AGAINST BARACK OBAMA page, instead of using a screen grab like other pages did, or simply posting a link to the AABO page.
You might want to show the WL page some love.
Sat Jun 01, 2013 at 7:32 AM PT: Racists don't die, they just go on Facebook. Confronted with an onslaught of objections they post another racist image/meme,
https://www.facebook.com/...
Sat Jun 01, 2013 at 12:23 PM PT: One last update just to help 'em out (if the AABO "army" every reads this dairy) because they seem to need examples
This is racist (it directly goes to what this diary is about) = https://www.facebook.com/...
This is not (it is tasteless and rude -- but it's a Wookie (friendly hint: you don't want to piss off a Wookie) https://www.facebook.com/...
This is what dislike sans (that means "without") racism looks like
https://www.facebook.com/...
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