# Freepers make racist attacks on Malia Obama for wearing a peace-sign t-shirt **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 14, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freepers-make-racist-attacks-on-malia-obama-for-wearing-a-peace-sign-t-shirt/503011 "2009-07-14T18:13:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freepers-make-racist-attacks-on-malia-obama-for-wearing-a-peace-sign-t-shirt/503011/1 "2009-07-14T18:13:46Z")
[“A typical street whore.” “A bunch of ghetto thugs.” “Ghetto street trash.” “Wonder when she will get her first abortion.” These are a small selection of some of the racially-charged comments posted to the conservative ‘Free Republic’ blog Thursday, aimed at U.S. President Barack Obama’s 11-year-old daughter Malia after she was photographed wearing a t-shirt with a peace sign on the front.]([Home | Vancouver Sun](http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Conservative+Free+Republic+blog+free+speech+flap+after+racial+slurs+directed+Obama+children/1782375/story.html)) Apparently, Freepers hate peace almost as much as they hate eleven-year-old girls. ---
**Author:** ![BugMeNot2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e5b9ba/32.png) [@BugMeNot2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BugMeNot2)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freepers-make-racist-attacks-on-malia-obama-for-wearing-a-peace-sign-t-shirt/503011/2 "2009-07-14T18:24:13Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > Apparently, Freepers hate peace almost as much as they hate eleven-year-old girls. Well, I don’t post on Free Republic, but I certainly hate the inane “peace” symbol. Hating the symbol and the counterculture that promoted it doesn’t mean I “hate peace” or “hate eleven-year-old girls”. ---
**Author:** ![Honesty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f04885/32.png) [@Honesty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honesty)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freepers-make-racist-attacks-on-malia-obama-for-wearing-a-peace-sign-t-shirt/503011/3 "2009-07-14T18:29:15Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > [“A typical street whore.” “A bunch of ghetto thugs.” “Ghetto street trash.” “Wonder when she will get her first abortion.” > > These are a small selection of some of the racially-charged comments posted to the conservative ‘Free Republic’ blog Thursday, aimed at U.S. President Barack Obama’s 11-year-old daughter Malia after she was photographed wearing a t-shirt with a peace sign on the front.]([http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Conservative+Free+Republic+blog+free+speech+flap+after+racial+slurs+directed+Obama+children/1782375/story.html](http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Conservative+Free+Republic+blog+free+speech+flap+after+racial+slurs+directed+Obama+children/1782375/story.html)) > > Apparently, Freepers hate peace almost as much as they hate eleven-year-old girls. Why is this surprising? Whites have been calling black children, women, and men deragotory names for over 400 years. - Honesty ---
**Author:** ![Phatlewt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Phatlewt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phatlewt)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freepers-make-racist-attacks-on-malia-obama-for-wearing-a-peace-sign-t-shirt/503011/4 "2009-07-14T18:31:03Z")
Maybe they’re trying to get Obama to resign… Some random assholes said mean shit about his daughter on the internet! There’s only one thing to do, for the good of Alaska… I mean, America. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freepers-make-racist-attacks-on-malia-obama-for-wearing-a-peace-sign-t-shirt/503011/5 "2009-07-14T18:32:36Z")
I wonder if Barack will cry and resign now. The irony is that these are the exact same assholes who constantly whine about all the imaginary attacks on Sarah Palin’s kids. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freepers-make-racist-attacks-on-malia-obama-for-wearing-a-peace-sign-t-shirt/503011/6 "2009-07-14T18:34:02Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I wonder if Barack will cry and resign now. > > The irony is that these are the exact same assholes who constantly whine about all the imaginary attacks on Sarah Palin’s kids. How do you know it’s the same people? Are you and I of the same cohort because we post on the same message board? ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freepers-make-racist-attacks-on-malia-obama-for-wearing-a-peace-sign-t-shirt/503011/7 "2009-07-14T18:37:31Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > How do you know it’s the same people? > > Are you and I of the same cohort because we post on the same message board? I always hated this as a rhetorical device myself, because the people using it rarely actually confirm that it’s the case - usually it’s “someone with a wide range of ideology said something that contradicted something someone else with a partially overlapping ideology says… HYPOCRITE!” ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freepers-make-racist-attacks-on-malia-obama-for-wearing-a-peace-sign-t-shirt/503011/8 "2009-07-14T18:39:17Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > How do you know it’s the same people? > > Are you and I of the same cohort because we post on the same message board? Free Republic is a cesspool. Their active efforts to ban anyone who doesn’t tow the Far Right line make it that way. There were a FEW comments on that thread taking the majority to task. And reality somehow broke through to the moderation and administration that the thread was really making them look BAAAD, because they pulled it, then restored it, then pulled it again. But the range of opinion on Free Republic is much narrower than it is here (yes, even with our much-talked-about liberal bias). Much, MUCH narrower. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freepers-make-racist-attacks-on-malia-obama-for-wearing-a-peace-sign-t-shirt/503011/9 "2009-07-14T18:40:26Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > How do you know it’s the same people? > > Are you and I of the same cohort because we post on the same message board? …because in the screenshot of the thread linked at the bottom of the article, someone said something like “I wonder when she’s going to sleep with A-Rod?” ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freepers-make-racist-attacks-on-malia-obama-for-wearing-a-peace-sign-t-shirt/503011/10 "2009-07-14T18:41:30Z")
**Breaking News: Free Republic Full of Morons, Assholes** And… ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freepers-make-racist-attacks-on-malia-obama-for-wearing-a-peace-sign-t-shirt/503011/11 "2009-07-14T18:44:21Z")
I’m shocked … SHOCKED … to find out that there are racists among the Freepers. Next you’ll tell me that they’re intolerant toward gay people too, then my whole world-view will be shot to hell. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freepers-make-racist-attacks-on-malia-obama-for-wearing-a-peace-sign-t-shirt/503011/12 "2009-07-14T18:46:28Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > How do you know it’s the same people? Because they have the same user names. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freepers-make-racist-attacks-on-malia-obama-for-wearing-a-peace-sign-t-shirt/503011/13 "2009-07-14T18:48:30Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > I always hated this as a rhetorical device myself, because the people using it rarely actually confirm that it’s the case - usually it’s “someone with a wide range of ideology said something that contradicted something someone else with a partially overlapping ideology says… HYPOCRITE!” Free Republic allows only a very narrow and lockstep range of ideology. Anyone who deviates from that gets banned. ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freepers-make-racist-attacks-on-malia-obama-for-wearing-a-peace-sign-t-shirt/503011/14 "2009-07-14T18:49:06Z")
> [@BugMeNot2](#): > > Well, I don’t post on Free Republic, but I certainly hate the inane “peace” symbol. > > Hating the symbol and the counterculture that promoted it doesn’t mean I “hate peace” or “hate eleven-year-old girls”. Who said otherwise? Do you suffer from dementia? ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freepers-make-racist-attacks-on-malia-obama-for-wearing-a-peace-sign-t-shirt/503011/15 "2009-07-14T18:55:42Z")
I’m an ultra conservative Republican and I’m embarassed and outraged at these comments on FreeRepublic. :mad::mad::mad: ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freepers-make-racist-attacks-on-malia-obama-for-wearing-a-peace-sign-t-shirt/503011/16 "2009-07-14T18:59:00Z")
> [@BugMeNot2](#): > > Well, I don’t post on Free Republic, but I certainly hate the inane “peace” symbol. > > Hating the symbol and the counterculture that promoted it doesn’t mean I “hate peace” or “hate eleven-year-old girls”. However, if you acted upon your hatred of the peace symbol by calling an 11 year old girl disgusting names on a public forum, we could safely assume that you were twisted in some way. See how this works? Hating peace symbol and counterculture /= hating peace or 11 year old girls Calling 11 year old foul names in public for wearing peace symbol = something wrong with you. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freepers-make-racist-attacks-on-malia-obama-for-wearing-a-peace-sign-t-shirt/503011/17 "2009-07-14T19:05:39Z")
> [@Curtis LeMay](#): > > I’m an ultra conservative Republican Never would have guessed that, General! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freepers-make-racist-attacks-on-malia-obama-for-wearing-a-peace-sign-t-shirt/503011/18 "2009-07-14T19:07:34Z")
This is appropos of nothing, but Malia Obama is going to be a stone cold knockout when she grows up. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freepers-make-racist-attacks-on-malia-obama-for-wearing-a-peace-sign-t-shirt/503011/19 "2009-07-14T19:18:19Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Free Republic allows only a very narrow and lockstep range of ideology. Anyone who deviates from that gets banned. Still, their opinions on whether it’s acceptable to insult the children of politicians can vary, right? Do they have the same taste in pizza toppings too? The same people who say they want pepperoni are now saying they want sausage? WHAT THE FUCK?!?! ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freepers-make-racist-attacks-on-malia-obama-for-wearing-a-peace-sign-t-shirt/503011/20 "2009-07-14T19:20:16Z")
I’m confused. What was everyone at Free Republic upset over? The fact that Malia was wearing a T-shirt? The fact that the T-shirt had a peace symbol on it? The fact that the family are wearing casual clothes? The the clothes worn by the guy in the picture with Malia are so casual as to look trashy? (Okay, I’ll give them that one.) Because even if every one of those is a legitimate complaint, a lot of them took those complaints and turned them into racist derogatory defamations. Many of the complaints refer to “ghetto” and black stereotypes. I will accept that the guy with Malia is wearing clothes that look like pajamas. I will accept that he is below the par in attire. But Malia does not look run down or cheap, she’s wearing nice, neat, comfortable casual clothes that many a suburbanite would wear. Okay, she’s wearing a “peace” symbol (or nuclear disarmament symbol, if you know some history). And she wears two different T-shirts with the logo, making a political statement. But there’s nothing trashy about her clothing. It just isn’t up to the standards of, say, Jenna Bush (:dubious:). **BugMeNot2** said: > [@](#): > > Hating the symbol and the counterculture that promoted it doesn’t mean I “hate peace” or “hate eleven-year-old girls”. There are maybe two people on that thread complaining about the political message of her T-shirt and the subtext of counterculture. The rest are ragging on everything from her companion’s attire (whomever he is), to apparently Michelle Obama’s mother being present, to just about any other excuse to hate Barack Obama and his family in general. **Honesty** said: > [@](#): > > Why is this surprising? Whites have been calling black children, women, and men deragotory names for over 400 years. Maybe not surprising, but certainly repulsive. What’s also annoying are the statements that now that Malia has made herself a political symbol, Letterman should start making sexual jokes about her. What a bunch of maroons. The reason Letterman made a sexual joke about Bristol Palin was because Bristol Palin made her political message about sex, specifically her own sex life. Until Malia gets knocked up out of wedlock, then goes on to state abstinence is unreasonable, then later starts advocating abstinence, her sex life is not an issue. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freepers-make-racist-attacks-on-malia-obama-for-wearing-a-peace-sign-t-shirt/503011.md?page=2)