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XemaSab

(60,212 posts)
Tue Dec 30, 2014, 09:07 PM Dec 2014

When 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 it’s 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."

"I’ve just about given up hope that whites will ever strike back. Look at what we’ve already allowed. And we’re allowing it while we’re the majority. What happens when we’re a minority in this country? “Striking back” will be much more difficult, if not impossible, then."

"Blacks assume that anyone who’s 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 1960’s. 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 awful—you do not need a majority to win—only a hard core of dedicated rebels. When it comes—it will be awful and fearful—it may be a new force—or a revialized Klan—or 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 MSM’s 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..."

"It’s 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 she’d like a one-way coach ticket back to west Africa with a meal and a movie?"

"It’s 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.....it’s 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!




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When did Free Republic turn into Stormfront? (Original Post) XemaSab Dec 2014 OP
Maybe when the Freepers went to Discussionist, Cleita Dec 2014 #1
That's just what I was going to say! cyberswede Dec 2014 #3
+1 Hoyt Dec 2014 #16
Well it's nice to have such a dump linked to this site. BeanMusical Dec 2014 #22
Heh! joshcryer Dec 2014 #35
The thin veneer of politics has worn off, I suppose. arcane1 Dec 2014 #2
It was always there, but their white supremacist tendencies really came out after Obama's election Cali_Democrat Dec 2014 #4
This isn't in the last 6 years XemaSab Dec 2014 #8
No Cali_Democrat Dec 2014 #12
There was ever a difference? BillZBubb Dec 2014 #5
Let's hope the FBI and Southern Poverty Law Center Ilsa Dec 2014 #6
maybe it's connected to certain bigots who have come here JI7 Dec 2014 #7
Just about any site about politics or news has become a klan meeting, even this one isn't immune TheKentuckian Dec 2014 #9
Obama cracked the mask of racism in this country when he was elected. Agnosticsherbet Dec 2014 #10
+++1Million!! nt kelliekat44 Dec 2014 #19
Bullseye! tblue Dec 2014 #30
Good Lord shenmue Dec 2014 #11
I was surprised to see there the other day... grasswire Dec 2014 #13
disgusting place turns completely vile nt steve2470 Dec 2014 #14
January 20, 2009. catbyte Dec 2014 #15
Bingo Hoyt Dec 2014 #17
Yep. nt Cali_Democrat Dec 2014 #20
I noticed that Kalidurga Dec 2014 #34
They stopped fucking goats long enough to write stuff on the internet? NuclearDem Dec 2014 #18
I think that with the purges that went on at Free Republic mythology Dec 2014 #21
I wonder if some of the purged ones ended up here? BeanMusical Dec 2014 #23
that is the over all trend throughout the rightwing - to be openly racist in a way that they may Douglas Carpenter Dec 2014 #24
FreakRepublic and StromFront are representive of the GOP base ChosenUnWisely Dec 2014 #25
When did FreeRepublic come online? Scootaloo Dec 2014 #26
They have always been there. They are just feeling more bold now. Major Nikon Dec 2014 #27
Free Republic is the training pants of Stormfront. n/t Orsino Dec 2014 #28
K&R n/t Feral Child Dec 2014 #29
When Storfromt became an actual coordarinato for guerilla cells True Blue Door Dec 2014 #31
We always knew what "conservative" and "tea party" were really code for CanonRay Dec 2014 #32
Entirely believable. Iggo Dec 2014 #33
'But remember that the KKK was begun by Democrats'... LeftinOH Dec 2014 #36

BeanMusical

(4,389 posts)
22. Well it's nice to have such a dump linked to this site.
Wed Dec 31, 2014, 03:53 AM
Dec 2014

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)
2. The thin veneer of politics has worn off, I suppose.
Tue Dec 30, 2014, 09:11 PM
Dec 2014

It's not like they have politicians to respect any more

 

Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)
12. No
Tue Dec 30, 2014, 09:28 PM
Dec 2014

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.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
6. Let's hope the FBI and Southern Poverty Law Center
Tue Dec 30, 2014, 09:16 PM
Dec 2014

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.

TheKentuckian

(25,026 posts)
9. Just about any site about politics or news has become a klan meeting, even this one isn't immune
Tue Dec 30, 2014, 09:22 PM
Dec 2014

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)
10. Obama cracked the mask of racism in this country when he was elected.
Tue Dec 30, 2014, 09:25 PM
Dec 2014

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.

grasswire

(50,130 posts)
13. I was surprised to see there the other day...
Tue Dec 30, 2014, 09:32 PM
Dec 2014

....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.

 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
21. I think that with the purges that went on at Free Republic
Wed Dec 31, 2014, 01:40 AM
Dec 2014

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.

Douglas Carpenter

(20,226 posts)
24. that is the over all trend throughout the rightwing - to be openly racist in a way that they may
Wed Dec 31, 2014, 04:54 AM
Dec 2014

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)
25. FreakRepublic and StromFront are representive of the GOP base
Wed Dec 31, 2014, 07:03 AM
Dec 2014

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.





True Blue Door

(2,969 posts)
31. When Storfromt became an actual coordarinato for guerilla cells
Wed Dec 31, 2014, 09:17 AM
Dec 2014

plotting terrorist attakcs on the United States.

CanonRay

(14,101 posts)
32. We always knew what "conservative" and "tea party" were really code for
Wed Dec 31, 2014, 09:20 AM
Dec 2014

they are just taking off their masks.

LeftinOH

(5,354 posts)
36. 'But remember that the KKK was begun by Democrats'...
Wed Dec 31, 2014, 10:16 AM
Dec 2014

..'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.



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