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Bigmack

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4. People used to say this kind of shit...

Reply to Drunken Irishman (Original post)

Sat Nov 16, 2013, 07:11 PM

Nov 2013

.. to their drinking or golf buddies.

Quietly. Looking around as they said it.

Now... with the Tea Creatures out from under their rock...
people are disinhibited from saying the most insanely racist and stupid things.

The Tea movement has given legitimacy to the racists.

It will take decades to overcome this rebirth of public racism.

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It's not about racism (warning, vile, racist, hateful, pathetic trash). [View all] Drunken Irishman Nov 2013 OP

And people feel very comfortable writing that gollygee Nov 2013 #1

link? hard to see.posting... but yes call it out when they say the opposite of the obvious lunasun Nov 2013 #2

Here, though you may wish you hadn't asked. arcane1 Nov 2013 #7

rediculous? that is so fuckin rIdiculous. every time i have seen it spelled rediculous, it has seabeyond Nov 2013 #3

Yeah, yournation is full of shit like that. Scootaloo Nov 2013 #8

People used to say this kind of shit... Bigmack Nov 2013 #4

When Obama won in '08, I remember telling my mom it would bring the racists to light... Drunken Irishman Nov 2013 #12

BWAHAHAHA!! Was that you who schooled them at the end? Systematic Chaos Nov 2013 #5

That was a thing of beauty, wasn't it? arcane1 Nov 2013 #10

I like that Beaks Mceagle fellow's jib n/t Scootaloo Nov 2013 #6

...OK... This is just fucking beyond pale... I feel dirty for reading it. idwiyo Nov 2013 #9

There's a lot more of that crud going on than a lot of folks think. Hoyt Nov 2013 #11

i agree, they do need to be exposed, the media ignores tea party and other racism JI7 Nov 2013 #13

bottom line . she's the first lady and there is nothing they can do about it Liberal_in_LA Nov 2013 #14