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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhen did Free Republic turn into Stormfront?
They've always been vaguely racist in a coded way. You know, griping about "urban youth" and whatnot.
But in the last few weeks, they've been posting the kind of crap that used to only be seen on outright hate sites.
Recent articles include:
What if whites strike back?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3241970/posts
Black Mob Violence at Christmas, All Over the Country
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3241770/posts
Azealia Banks Continues to Bash America For Impeding Advancement of Blacks
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/backroom/3241850/posts
Comments taken from these three threads:
"When 80% of the population decides its had enough of the antics of 12% of the population, things get really ugly."
"Once it starts, it take on a life of its own; it will be unstoppable. And ugly beyond belief."
"Ive just about given up hope that whites will ever strike back. Look at what weve already allowed. And were allowing it while were the majority. What happens when were a minority in this country? Striking back will be much more difficult, if not impossible, then."
"Blacks assume that anyone whos not lily-white Caucasian is at least tacitly on their side, which ups their 13th percentile of the population to something much larger. They have assumed this since the late 1960s. Millions of Hispanics, Asians, & Middle Easterners are ready to disagree. Violently."
"There's a storm building. Whether it breaks hard or soft is up to them..."
"If a solid minority of white rise in rebellion it will be awfulyou do not need a majority to winonly a hard core of dedicated rebels. When it comesit will be awful and fearfulit may be a new forceor a revialized Klanor something else it will be scary and heartless as only white people can be. When motivated White Europeans can be the worst people on earth. Doubt it? Ask any Indian or Jew?"
"Black lies matter. 'White privilege' is dog-whistle for 'kill white people.'"
"If telling the truth is called 'racial animosity', what do you call the MSMs cover up of the same?"
"I did not see the part about them firing at the police. I saw where they almost ran an officer down while fleeing and he fired one shot and hit the hood of their car. As far as the fighting goes, they should have let them fight it out among themselves and kill each other. Whatever the outcome would have been, the public would win. If they wish to live like animals..."
"Its almost like mob rules. They want to disrupt the peace and create chaos. You never hear about a white mob doing this in malls and other places. I would say they have been at stage four for sometime."
"It's not racism..... it's probability, actuarial tables, statistics. Facts are stubborn things."
"I tend to think we are heading towards a Social War which given current white sickness whites will lose. Whites have apparently reached that degree of physiological and psychological exhaustion they are unable to defend themselves. Once this fact is fully realized by blacks God Help us."
"the black underculture is no longer America. They are attempting to make their pitiful excuse for existence into sovereignty. Like all of Africa they will fail to be worth a damn"
"The fundamental problem is that white people and black people are different. They differ intellectually and temperamentally. These differences result in permanent social incompatibility."
"People like de Blasio, and judges that refuse to put an individual of a given ethnic group in jail or prison, are the only stumbling blocks to law and order. And once again, armed citizens matter, because their bullets can overrule liberal mayors and judges. And it is legal for them to do so, if they observe a felony in progress."
"The Minnesota Trans-racial Adoption Study looked at black kids adopted in infancy by upper middle class families. The average IQ of blacks is 85. Black children were adopted into white families, and given every advantage of being raised in white middle-class environment. At 17, their average measured IQ scores were 89."
"Of the countless explanations given for the poor performance and poor behavior of blacks in the US, one of them dares not speak its name: Low intelligence. Yet it fits all the evidence. It explains why Africa never built cities, why it did not invent writing, why there was no African Fifth-Century Athens. It explains why Rhodesia, prosperous and an exporter of food when run by whites, fell immediately into hunger and barbarism when whites left. It explains the dysfunction of black societies from Africa to Haiti to Detroit. It explains why blacks invariably score far below whites and Asians on tests of IQ, on the SATs, GREs, on entrance and promotion exams for fire and police departments."
"I wonder how shed like a one-way coach ticket back to west Africa with a meal and a movie?"
"Its time for the blacks and hispanics to start paying the whites back. White middle class has been slaves of the blacks and hispanics for generations now.....its criminal."
"I think part of the lack of black success is they basically hate each other and cannot create a society together. They kill each other all the time and they sold each other as slaves in Africa."
"I say not another dollar should go to blacks, other than plane tickets to the black African countries of their choice, where they can enjoy the fruits of, and contribute to the greatness of their own people. Good riddance."
Unbelievable!
Cleita
(75,480 posts)the Stormfronters moved in?
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)Their "reasonable" dog-whistle racists are all over on DI.
BeanMusical
(4,389 posts)Maybe Skinner could create another site so the Freepers would move there and the Stormfronters would move to Disgustionist? Big money to be made ya know?
arcane1
(38,613 posts)It's not like they have politicians to respect any more
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)XemaSab
(60,212 posts)It's in the last 6 months.
Places like Free Republic, Drudge and Breitbart have been going on and on about black "mob violence" for years now since Obama's election.
Remember the stories about "urban spring break"? Or remember the right wing hysteria over the knockout games? Or what about the hysteria over the New Black Panthers?
I could go on and on. It's always been there.
Nothing new, really.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)Same core beliefs, just a different vocabulary.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)And other groups are monitoring their devolution.
Maybe it's time for Anonymous to hack them and shut them down. Maybe hack and change their handles to real names.
JI7
(89,249 posts)TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)and as long as the subject has their "hail Obamas" in and they aren't too overt and figleaf it with respect or trust for authority they will get a pass.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)This made many conservative and centrist white Americans to feel that the country had changed irrevocably for the worse.
The protests now demanding real equality from the police and civil governments across the US has ripped the masked off.
These people really believe the country they grew up in where white privilege was so prevalent that no one knew it existed, where European descendants ruled with all the benevolence of Kipling's "White Man's Burden, has been destroyed.
They are frightened and reactionary and dangerous.
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)tblue
(16,350 posts)It hurts though . Makes me very sad.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Disgusting.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)....that they are willing and ready to start full civil war if anyone moves to hold Bush 43 accountable for war crimes.
They haven't supported the Bush family for some years now; considering them too liberal. But now they are willing to give their lives to keep authorities from taking George W.
Go figure.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)catbyte
(34,386 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)during the 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 elections, they thinned out what few more "moderate" Republicans were at Free Republic. Each time leaving those who were the most rabid in their fervor, thus creating a system that rewarded being the most strident and pure in their conservatism.
And as for being racist, the idiots at Free Republic have long since held that Bill Clinton had a secret black kid that he abandoned.
Here's one of the lovely posts from a thread in 2002:
This would PROVE to the blacks that he's one of them. He's left another black kid on welfare with a single mother. As for all the slime he's thrown around all of his life, I trust God will take care of exacting revenge. And I TRUST that to be the case. It WILL happen someday.
65 posted on 01/08/2003 4:29:15 PM PST by Terry Mross
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Racism and hatred for all those who aren't straight white christian males has long been a hallmark of Free Republic.
BeanMusical
(4,389 posts)Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)have thought before but would not say out loud in public since the 60's. Now ordinary Republicans are adopting the meme that all of America's problems are caused by the .............! They may have always thought that way. Now they are saying it with a boldness we have not seen since the segregation days. I think the anti-Obama fever has something to do with this. It has become their common wisdom that with Obama in charge the white man has no rights anymore.
ChosenUnWisely
(588 posts)and both sites are the GOP Bases ID
It is one of the few places where they are free to freely say what they really think and feel and they are accepted by others who think and feel the way they do.
Hate is a great motivator for the GOP and has served them well for decades now don't look for it to stop anytime soon.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)Feral Child
(2,086 posts)True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)plotting terrorist attakcs on the United States.
CanonRay
(14,101 posts)they are just taking off their masks.
Iggo
(47,552 posts)And right wingers are Stormfront-lite pretty much by definition.
LeftinOH
(5,354 posts)..'and that Southern segregation was instititutionalized and enforced by Democrats'. This is the usual retort from right-wingers when they are accused of being racist.
And their historical observations happen to be generally true, even though it completely denies the transformation of US political party dynamics of the last 50 years. We see this ALL. THE. TIME in online discussions about racial issues. RW blabbermouths seem to feel that because they've aligned themselves with the "party of Lincoln", emancipator of the slaves, they couldn't possibly be racists.
Yes...I know