Originally Posted by LadyDEATH
I love how everyone thinks the monkey is barrack obama... it took me like 20 minutes to figure out what you guys are bitching about...
Its like that episode of south park where the kids are trying to stop them from taking down the school logo, which is two guys laughing at another guy who is getting hung, however the stick figure being hung is colored black, but the kids don't see it as a racial issue. The news paper just saw a monkey, but america sees a blackman.
I didn't even know a monkey could represent a blackman, I must have missed that this past black history month, mah bad.
My point is you guys are getting pissed over a monkey being shot, its a monkey, as in the person who wrote the stimulus plan was, or had the IQ of a monkey.
Exactly. People in this day and age are so damned paranoid about being racist, it's ridiculous.
Originally Posted by hidingwarior
Exactly. People in this day and age are so damned paranoid about being racist, it's ridiculous.
You make a good point with that, man. But as a society we have to have standards, even if this IS just about the real incident with the monkey, it killed an old lady. I know this is the internet and all and everyone has to be tough as nails on here, but really there is nothing ok about this.
@jaredvcxz: Possibly, but probably not. Then again that is a whole other can of worms. After all, thousands of innocent people haven't died under Obama... yet. So he doesn't really have as much scorn directed at him.
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Originally Posted by deady
You make a good point with that, man. But as a society we have to have standards, even if this IS just about the real incident with the monkey, it killed an old lady. I know this is the internet and all and everyone has to be tough as nails on here, but really there is nothing ok about this.
@jaredvcxz: Possibly, but probably not. Then again that is a whole other can of worms. After all, thousands of innocent people haven't died under Obama... yet. So he doesn't really have as much scorn directed at him.
The bottom line is that if people would wake up and realize that this was just satirizing congress and the recent monkey incident, they wouldn't be upset. They aren't pissed because it's a tasteless joke, they're pissed because their convinced it's racist. Because fucking EVERYTHING is racist now. For christ's sake, I even encountered plenty of people telling me if I didn't support Obama I was a fucking racist. That's how paranoid our country is about racism.
And on your other little side note, Obama just sent thousands more troops into Afghanistan...not that it matters, I mean after all the liberal american media wouldn't want THAT to get spread around too much; can't be saying anything bad about Obama, now.
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xD yes, yes he did send them. To Afghanistan, the place all of our troops should have been from the get go. But he also has a plan to leave and is really only cleaning up Bush's mess.
I guess I see your point about people overreacting, but on the same token I think that you are speaking from what you know of life. To say that it is paranoid to see racial overtones in the cartoon is a bit short sighted in my opinion. I am guessing you don't know what its like to have an entire histories worth of hatred directed at you simply because of your skin pigment, if you did you may be a little bit more sensitive and angry about the matter.
I guess I see your point about people overreacting, but on the same token I think that you are speaking from what you know of life. To say that it is paranoid to see racial overtones in the cartoon is a bit short sighted in my opinion. I am guessing you don't know what its like to have an entire histories worth of hatred directed at you simply because of your skin pigment, if you did you may be a little bit more sensitive and angry about the matter.
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Originally Posted by LadyDEATH
Barrack Obama didn't write it, and if you think that the monkey represented barrack obana, you are in a racist state of mind.
And an idiot for thinking that Barrack Obama wrote the bill in the first place.
