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11/25/09
- a video of Ukrainian teens murdering a hobo with a hammer and screwdriver
- a guy shoving a Tom Collins glass up his ass, the glass subsequently breaking and then him dealing with those consequences
- a shitload of racist websites hating every type of person you can think of.
I get that outrage/counter-outrage/chance at zingers gets interest but you are coming off as a bit of a harumphing dowager or worse, a college freshman. You're damaging the legitimacy of your future posts and that makes me cry.
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If you don't understand why that is on an obvious, gut level ... well, I can't help you figure it out, sorry.
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Usually I wouldn't post a comment as pointless as that, but seriously.
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@MisterHippity: Again, go to the original site. They make ape faces out of all celebrities - black or white. Not racially motivated in any way. And if you can't figure that one out, then you just are looking for a reason to be offended.
@ModernMindOfM: I think both the pics - the one of Bush, the one of Obama - are funny. Neither offend my race. Neither offend my politics.
There is so much emphasis of being politically nowadays that people can find offense with anything. Lighten up folks, have a little fun...
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Oh yeah, good luck with that. The owner of that site is probably located in Russia or the Philippines or something.
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#tips
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Seriously? I realize Gawker slants left, but that's a bit ridiculous for a blog that has never seemed to mind being offensive to anyone.
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As compared to, you know, the regular Gawker stuff that you find "offensive"?
It's all just on a par to you, is it? "Black-people-are-monkeys" pictures and standard snarky Gawker fare?
O-0-oh ka-a-ay ...
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But it's not as if offensive images haven't been posted here before. Perhaps "ridiculous" was an overstatement on my part. "Surprising" would have been more accurate.
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That history is: they ALWAYS post them.
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Well ... at least it has does ever since the departure of Owen "Travolta's Rumored Gay Lover Discovered Dead Son" Thomas.
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Ok, maybe Gawker doesn't have any lines they won't cross after all ...
11/25/09
Back when I was an idiot wannabe "hacker" my friends and I would do really dumb Googlebombs. I remember we made the phrase "Clam Diving Katie" come up for a few hours and we thought it was the greatest thing ever.
This is offensive but so are the photoshops of Sarah Palin and her baby that has downs syndrome photoshops.
Also, does anyone in France care that it's quite easy to get NUDES of their first lady?
What I'm getting at here, is that the internet is the final frontier. Literally. All of our news, TV and movies are heavily censored and just because one offensive little photoshop got popular does not mean we need to get all PC on the internet.
I mean look, this is a popular photoshop and it is just plain dumb
(but still sort of funny, which is what I find the Michelle Obama to be)
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Do not disparage the name of Raptor Jesus.
He went extinct for our sins.
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No. It's France. And she's one of the hottest women in France. It does nothing but add to her reputation.
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There. Fixed.
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I get what you're saying about how meaningless her appearance is to her worth as a human being and first lady, but, well, welcome to lady life.
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Is she the paragon of beauty? No. Are her wide belts kind of unflattering and strange? Yeah. But she has a great body, beautiful skin, high cheekbones, and a flattering nose. I'd kill to look like her at her age. There are certainly other things I admire about her more -- her intelligence and humor and warmth, for starters -- but I do think she is pretty, both from my perspective and objectively.
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@eatsshootsleaves: For instance, I think this picture is a more accurate representation of her looks. And while she doesn't look like a supermodel, she does look pretty and warm and healthy.
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I'm amazed at even the suggestion here that it should be removed, because that is totally assholish and misguided.
Seriously, a balderdash thing to say. I'm disgusted. Chen, you call yourself a writer? I'm sorry, no. You are not allowed to call yourself that. You obviously cannot be trusted to protect what I consider to be the most important freedom we have, therefore I shall lobby that your name never come up in any search result.
You are a bad person. Or, perhaps, a decent person with an inability to make a point without failing badly and being misunderstood. Either way. Not appreciated.
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You know, that sounds just like "Google should remove it", doesn't it?
Talk about trying to make a point and failing badly.
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But there is no debate. No controversy, even. This is what I meant by failing at making a point. There was not, in fact, any reason to bring the image up. This is the point of the bad stuff. You don't like it, ignore it.
Oh, and go to hell, Go Like Hell, for that last crack of yours there. I'll send the ACLU a couple bucks in your name.
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It's the distinction between saying the KKK is disgusting and shouldn't exist vs. saying the Government should prohibit the KKK from existing. Big difference--HUGE difference.
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There is not a shortage of Obama monkey images. It's neither here nor there, and not worth discussion. It really isn't.
What's worth discussion is the suggestion these images be pulled. I say again, that is the overwhelming flavor of this post. Or, almost as bad, it's "tut tut, this is bad" and leading people to Google image it, which they have now, and it's still, what? Just another Obama monkey thing.
A story might be about who is posting these. A piece about Google refusing to take it down? Makes me mad that it is disappointed they will not. Saying again: #gfail. Failed how? "Racist picture...will live forever..." Well, yeah, that's the idea of a library. Respect the Internet as a library of everything.
I can't believe this is even an issue. No, I can. It's why I'm pissed.
Fiercely protect it, yer stupid freedom of speech, or yer screwed.
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How's your head feel this morning? :-)
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"...like a guy who lives in a compound in Montana and searches the web for tips on cleaning his high powered rifle while muttering misremembered passages of the Declaration of Independence to himself!"
You're hitting a little too close to home there! Cept I don't mutter it, I whisper it. Menacingly.
And I'm not in Montana.
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But now I am not sure if I should thank you or be a bit concerned that I may be spending too much on Free Republic.
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