I clicked on an article about California removes 'lynching' language from state law over at Yahoo News this morning: Hoo-boy...
I had suspected this would be rich in wingnut whining, but then I thought "maybe I'm being too hard on the wiingnuts": I found ridiculous ugliness from the wingnut population there.
Would you believe they are angry about this and find conspiracy it it??
Here's the issue from the linked article:
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California Governor Jerry Brown on Thursday signed a bill striking the word "lynching" from a 1933 law that used the term to describe the crime of trying to take someone from police custody.
The bill, which passed unanimously in the state legislature last week, followed outrage over the arrest of African-American activist Maile Hampton on a charge of felony lynching during a "Black Lives Matter" demonstration in Sacramento in January.
The bill keeps the same punishment for the crime while only removing the term "lynching." It was one of several bills Brown signed on Thursday, his office said.
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Hampton was detained for allegedly trying to pull a friend from police custody during a January protest over the killings of unarmed black men by police, the Sacramento Bee reported.
Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert has since reduced Hampton's charges to resisting arrest, a misdemeanor.
I have selected a few off-the-top comments from there to continue to illustrate how much racists do not 'get it' nor do they see the racism they project.
Note: It's ugly.
Check these out.
Larry W. 1 day ago
There are so many words we may not desire to use in everyday or even extraordinary conversations. All we have to do is choose another word! Yet when it comes to the sectors of our population who want to ban words will eventually follow the lead of Adolf Hitler and burn the books that contain words!
Sire Lansing 2 days ago
I hope that some day soon the American people will come their senses and realize that these political leaders, that think their entitled to rule over them, are to blame for all of our troubles. Their exploitation, manipulation and coercion must come to an end. The American people need to make an example of the price that must be paid by tyrants and despots. The word they now choose to ban from our language is a good remedy for their treachery.
runningtrain 2 days ago
Why is it that politicians feel they must change the meaning or the need to distort certain words and symbols. The meaning of the word gay and marriage was changed and now we ban the n-word and lynching. We take a symbol that means states right and makes it only an issue about slavery and man's campaign- Martin Luther King Jr which involved the poor of all backgrounds into just a black issue. Isn't the protection of the population more important. Shouldn't the government be more worried about the safety of legal residents then who sleeps where and how people feel when the hear certain words? Shouldn't a lady walking a pier in San Francisco be safe because the city and state are following and protecting her. Shouldn't the city and state be more worried about how they will protect her then trying to ban certain words or symbols. Sad to say, but by banning words and symbols, by changing the meaning of certain words, by forcing people to have certain things like insurance actual takes away individual rights. By not following the laws forces those living in the city and state to fear more and be willing to give up individual rights. So, to destroy a symbol like the Confederate flag which originally stood for STATE Rights and to allow illegal immigrants to run free and kill innocent legal residents of all national backgrounds plays into the same theme-the giving up of individual rights. Change the words, change the meaning, ban certain issues and symbols and individual rights will soon disappear. Those are the facts. The reason there is a marriage certificate and insurances asking about family background is to control who you have in your life and to get rid of individual rights ever so slowly but surely.
OUTSOURCED 1 day ago
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The liberals are to an extent, rewriting history. Before you know it, they'll have everyone believe that the Constitution was a document written to outline the rights of GOVERNMENT. It's a sad statement when an inordinately high number of Americans don't even know what July 4th celebrates.
Stop it, ya goldangeded libtards!
David 2 days ago
Jerry Brown aka "moonbeam" is a PC LOON. Nothing wrong with the word - if you want to change it use "hung by the neck with a rope until dead." Oh by the way, raise taxes so you can keep all the illegal criminals in jail for the life of their sentence - we are tired of YOU leaving them out as they just take a bus and come to OUR TOWNS. YOU are a loser Jerry, stop smoking that stuff!
Bill 2 days ago
God, I am glad I am 75 years old, and hopefully will not live to see the complete collapse of the country I love and spent 20 years defending. Today's society has become so thin skinned that it is pathetic. When I went to school, Speech meant "oral communication". Now it means just about anything anyone wants to do in the way of rebellion. America has to get a damned grip and grow up. If it doesn't effect me physically or financially, it is not my concern. No one died and appointed any of us God, but the U.S. Supreme Court seems to think they are God.........
Let's hear from a lady....
Beth 2 days ago
Lets take down the ten commandments get rid of history take away flags because it offends everyone. Its ok to replace those symbols with gay guys holding a flag representing a awesome world war 2 icon, and put up black statues everywhere, and letting black americans riot loot and tear up whole cities. Obama should be impeached, and thrown in jail, along with Clinton, holder and Sharpton they all have betrayed this country. And what is wrong with everyone to vote for that jerk not once but twice ENOUGH SAID
::shudder::
2000+ comments there on this crap. There was one that was very long, overly-intellectual 'scientific proof" of white superiority and how liberals are expressing a damaged chromosome. Talk about projection....
After reading a number of the replies I made my own reply.
Sickening but still hysterical to look at this story on Yahoo and see all the wingnuts complaining loudly about getting rid of lynching. Unsurprising, really. This subset of personality types supports rape, date rape, hates any discussion of raising the minimum wage and a cluster of general values that suggest they miss the 1860s and slavery.