Freepers make racist attacks on Malia Obama for wearing a peace-sign t-shirt

Err…no. In fact, a “joke” is something you sometimes tell without, you know, meaning what you say. It’s one of those little subtleties of language. Don’t worry, you’ll get the hang of it eventually.

Fact is, and this may surprise you, but I have no idea what Obama’s daughter looks like. That should cut short any pedo implication.

I find offenderatis boresome at best, and fucking annoying at worst. Point in case. Hence, if they’re omagad utterly offended by anything sexual, might as well offend them for something more substantial.

Also, I’m a fan of bathos. Sue me.

80s Valley Girl ? I’m French, you utter pillock. My English is a mish-mash of Victorian crap learned in school, and Californian shit watched on TV. So if it’s not “standard”… well, that’s not per fucking design, is it ?

Err, no, it’s not an attempt to put the responsibility on anyone. It’s a genuine if, then clause. If he/she gets the joke, good. If he/she doesn’t, fuck him/her. Sincerely, from the bottom of my black heart.

Oh, for Og’s sake. It was an internet meme. A fairly common one, at that. A childish, teenage meme, sure, especially if taken literally (which I didn’t, and don’t. I commented on it. See above). Welcome to the fucking internet, hope you’ll like it here.

Yeah, I’m sure they had no idea they were paraded as sex symbols before Internet stepped in. Or, from the other side, I’m sure the general Internet reaction had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that their parents/producers/whatever willingly and knowingly paraded them around as sex icons.

Yeah, yeah, I’m responsible for their coke problem. Mea culpa. But I had nothing to do with Amy Whinehouse though !

And fuck you with a chainsaw, because quite obviously, you fall within the if/then clause.

I think **Kobal2 **just added a few points to general coolness factor of the French in the internet.

I’m calling rule 34 here, it has to exist somewhere!

Sounds like their posters between those who are openly racist, hateful, stupid morons and those who see some advantage to hiding the fact they are racist, hateful, stupid morons.

I have the official SDMB monopoly on references to yak cum. You’re going to have to pay me royalties if you want to keep using that phrase.

Yer silly.

Only 72 days till the pig’s legal.

That was about Sarah Palin.

No, it wasn’t. I really don’t know how you parsed it that way.

I know you get emotionally invested in your opinions, but it’s okay to admit you were wrong. We won’t think less of you for it. Really.

N.B.: The counterculture used it but didn’t invent it. It was invented in 1958, based on the semaphore code for the letters “N” and “D,” for "nuclear disarmament. The disarmament movement was a respectable middle-class affair and predated the hippie counterculture. (But there are urban legends that it really represents something Satanic, like a broken or inverted cross.)

Jim Thompson’s response is a hilarious bit of self-parody! :slight_smile: (But the Freepers just don’t seem to get it . . .)

Regardless I am still waiting for the bit about the birth control to come in.

I see two jokes, one about Sarah and one about A-Rod banging Willow Palin during the 7th inning stretch. Nothing about birth control though.

But murder as a governmental policy, as has been pointed out, has nothing to do with Communism as an ideology, any more than murder for religious reasons has anything to do with the ideology of Christianity (or insert your religion of choice here). It’s perfectly reasonable to hate a murderous regime; but you wouldn’t hate Democracy/Capitalism/whatever just because a Democratic/capitalistic/etc. government engaged in slaughter, would you? Because you’d quickly run out of ideologies worth supporting, were that the case.

Except there has never been an example of a communist regime worth supporting. Therein lies the difference. Democracy and Christianity both have their ups and downs. With Communism it’s almost entirely downs, decent health coverage in Cuba notwithstanding.

Two things:

  1. I think you might be projecting
  2. How old is the pig?

The joke wasn’t that he banged her, the joke was thjat he knocked her up. A-Rod just banging her would not have been a joke. The only reason it COULD be a joke is because of the implication that she still knows nothing of birth control. Why would anybody think there was anything wrong with sex in and of itself?

I took a quick poll of my upper middle-class, white-collar office coworkers. I asked what it means to call someone ghetto. They all basically said it means poor and uneducated. I asked what it meant to look ghetto, and they mostly all said it means to look dirty, low-class, and unkempt.

Not a single person mentioned race. Now I’m not saying that the posters didn’t have some anti-Black in them, but it’s pretty retarded to write an article on it and not quote at least one blatant racist comment, though the monkey thing I guess counts. And I can’t for the life of me parse what the “representin my peeps” person was saying.

Your coworkers are ignorant.

Umm, well there is the fact that Malia Obama is not low-class, unkempt, dirty, poor, or uneducated (for her age), so what else could they mean?

Ok Diogenes, whatever you say.

Well, if polled, I probably wouldn’t bring up the black thing because it would look kind of racist. But people do use it in that context. Besides, why would anyone refer to Obama and his family as ghetto in the unkempt way? The jokes that people make about him are that he’s super elitist, not that he’s sloppy in the least. If the Obamas are known to be well-heeled and are extremely wealthy, then what else did that commenter mean?