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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSome reactions to The Presidents twitter...warning language.
WARNING EXPLICIT & RACIST LANGUAGE!The President was inundated with welcome tweets from supporters. Some, including Bill Clinton, wondered if the new username stays with the office of President:
more at link: http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/politics/welcome-to-twitter-ngger-conservatives-greet-president-obamas-entry-into-twitterverse-screenshots/
malaise
(267,812 posts)These racists are on steroids.
a kennedy
(29,462 posts)think
(11,641 posts)onecaliberal
(32,484 posts)I'm sick.
AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)Seem to for this garbage...sick
one_voice
(20,043 posts)it is sick. Every time someone says we're post racial because we elected a black man...we can show them this.
You know and I know and many others here know this shit still exists, but too many still deny. Some of them lurk...
AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)words never goes away in its intensity...I just cannot understand the mindset?
polly7
(20,582 posts)I know I'm going to get jumped all over for criticizing free speech, but wtf? ..... he's the President!
PSPS
(13,512 posts)Twitter is a private company and would be fully within their rights to stop this. Yet they don't.
polly7
(20,582 posts)hate, or anyone else for that matter. It's not based on anything he's done or hasn't done - just plain, ugly bigotry for the sake of it. I find it horrible, and Twitter should put a stop to it.
GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)its hard to be POTUS with a name everyone knows and face to link it to. Its easy to be an anonymous jackass on the internet... sad but true. It is a very uneven playing field, hopefully Obama wont feed the trolls.
polly7
(20,582 posts)by some crazy being empowered just by seeing it. I also hope he won't feed the trolls, I know he won't - but I hope that whoever is protecting his family is being doubly vigilant. As for Twitter letting this remain ... beyond stupid, imo.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)I hope they do.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,272 posts)Some people are dumb enough to associate themselves with this crap. Yeah, dumb racists - whodathunkit.
I'm thinking of the guys that went after that baseball player's kid.
Go get 'em, Internet.
Exilednight
(9,359 posts)We do not. The founders gave us the tools to "form a more perfect union", and one of those tools was the first amendment.
I'm not scared by these assholes who post crap like that. The ones that scare me are the ones who harbor thoughts but hide in plain sight.
ismnotwasm
(41,921 posts)Also why I take a hard line against racism in any form.
zappaman
(20,605 posts)fadedrose
(10,044 posts)and can't understand why people do it.
Terrorists use them for planning attacks, and mean people use them because they're mean.
Innocent fun-loving people are victimized, and I don't need that.
I get enough kindness and enough meaness to satisfy me, right here in DU.
I love you guys.
The President is wasting his time - would be better served by some of our really ACE Op writers, who get 300 replies and as many R's.