# Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 31, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945 "2021-01-31T21:25:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 45
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/886 "2021-07-16T07:14:08Z")
He appears to have a prosthetic nose taped onto his face. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/887 "2021-07-16T19:03:28Z")
Is he celebrating Pride Month? ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/888 "2021-07-21T02:22:40Z")
Paralympian Becca Meyers, who is blind and deaf, who participates in competitive swimming, was told she can not bring her personal care assistant to Tokyo. She needs the assistant to get around because, again, she’s blind and deaf. She has had to withdraw from the games. > **[Deaf-Blind Athlete Quits Team USA After She's Told She Can't Bring A Care...](https://www.npr.org/sections/tokyo-olympics-live-updates/2021/07/20/1018307082/deaf-and-blind-swimmer-quits-team-usa-over-personal-aid-issue)** > > Becca Meyers is a star for the U.S. Paralympic swim team. But she won't be in Tokyo, after being told her mother, who acts as her personal care assistant, can't join her. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/889 "2021-07-21T02:24:20Z")
An Alabama city council member called one of his co-members a “house n\*\*\*\*\*” at a council meeting. > **[White City Council Member in Alabama Shocks Meeting With Racial Slur: 'Do We...](https://lawandcrime.com/politics/white-city-council-member-in-alabama-shocks-meeting-with-racial-slur-do-we-have-a-house-n-in-here/)** > > At a Tarrant, Alabama city council meeting on Monday, a white councilman used a racist slur about Black people, causing noticeable shock among meeting attendees and upsetting one councilwoman so much that she had to step away from the meeting. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/891 "2021-07-21T03:01:44Z")
Former NASA administrator Charlie Bolden said that ‘one black kid watching this launch is one less Black kid about to use a weapon.’ [https://twitter.com/EvelKneidel/status/1417545268245975045](https://twitter.com/EvelKneidel/status/1417545268245975045) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/892 "2021-07-21T03:12:06Z")
Weirdly, he’s African-American himself. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/893 "2021-07-21T09:31:19Z")
I can just about see the message he was _trying_ to give - that black kids interested in positive scientific pursuits will avoid the negative life choices that far too many black kids make - but, you know, “phrasing”. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/894 "2021-07-21T10:18:08Z")
The Alabama case is another case of bad phrasing exacerbating an already-questionable message. The councilor was trying to defend his wife’s former use of the n-word (instead of vicariously apologizing or throwing her under the bus) by saying that a Black person had called _another_ Black person - one of the ones at the meeting - a “house n\*\*\*\*\*”. Which isn’t a winning argument itself, but you definitely shouldn’t don’t introduce that argument by saying “hey, don’t we have a ‘house n\*\*\*\*\*\*’ here?”. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/895 "2021-07-21T13:48:30Z")
Yet another white person complaining that black people get to use the n-word. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/896 "2021-07-21T15:17:54Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I can just about see the message he was _trying_ to give - that black kids interested in positive scientific pursuits will avoid the negative life choices that far too many black kids make - but, you know, “phrasing”. Look at you, giving him the benefit of the doubt. Why, I wonder? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/897 "2021-07-21T15:25:42Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Look at you, giving him the benefit of the doubt. Why, I wonder? It’s not much of a benefit, but I thought there was sufficient ambiguity in his statement to consider that he might have meant something less offensive by it than it sounded. Still a pretty ill-judged remark either way. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/898 "2021-07-21T15:40:29Z")
I made my remark in order to challenge some peoples’ immediate reactions, in the interest of fairness (and not to direct any opprobrium at you). If he had been white, would he have been given the benefit of any doubt whatever? Should he have? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/899 "2021-07-21T15:41:53Z")
I formed my view before I read about his race, FWIW. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/900 "2021-07-23T09:21:13Z")
If you’re in the UK you’re probably familiar with the waste of skin that is Tommy Robinson, professional bigot and asshat. He thought he would be safe in smearing the reputation of a Muslim schoolboy who was filmed being attacked at school. He thought wrong. > **[Tommy Robinson loses Jamal Hijazi libel case](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-57930901)** > > The High Court orders the anti-Islam activist to pay a teenage refugee £100,000 in damages. The asshat, whose real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon is insufficiently working class for the image the poser works to project, is now whining that he can’t afford to pay the judgement and the legal costs, despite raking in [vast amounts of donations from his followers](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tommy-robinson-cocaine-donations-prison-b1787467.html). > **[Tommy Robinson ‘misused’ donations from far-right supporters](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tommy-robinson-cocaine-donations-prison-b1787467.html)** > > Exclusive: EDL founder denies mis-spending donations received after appeals for cash By the way, Our Tommy didn’t take that story particularly well: > **[Tommy Robinson ‘threatened Independent journalist in bid to prevent...](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tommy-robinson-stalking-journalist-court-b1819842.html)** > > EDL founder issued with interim stalking ban after warning he would falsely accuse reporter’s partner of being paedophile Frankly, he deserves every horrible thing that happens to him. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/901 "2021-07-23T14:47:39Z")
He has that kind of look of a bigoted asshat. [![](https://static.independent.co.uk/2021/02/24/16/GettyImages-1143772393.jpg) ](https://static.independent.co.uk/2021/02/24/16/GettyImages-1143772393.jpg) There are some groups in the US he would fit in with well. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/902 "2021-07-23T15:20:09Z")
Florida Man screams “Get off my lawn!” to a (possibly) dying man. > **[‘Have him die somewhere else!’ Florida homeowners scream as lawn worker tries...](https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2021/07/22/have-him-die-somewhere-else-florida-homeowners-scream-as-lawn-worker-tries-to-save-mans-life/)** > > When a lawn-care worker saw a neighbor having a seizure in his car and begged for help as the victim convulsed, Florida homeowners screamed at them to “Get off our lawn,” deputies said … > When a lawn-care worker saw a neighbor having a seizure in his car and begged for help as the victim convulsed, Florida homeowners screamed at them to “Get off our lawn,” deputies said Thursday. > > The good Samaritan, identified only as “Tony,” recognized the victim, knew where he lived, and ran to his house to alert his wife Monday, the The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said. > > The department called Tony a hero and credited his quick actions with saving the driver’s life. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/903 "2021-07-23T15:59:05Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Florida Man screams “Get off my lawn!” to a (possibly) dying man. The only redeeming thing about that story is that at least Florida has Tony. I don’t think Florida deserves Tony though. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/904 "2021-07-23T17:11:30Z")
What do you wanna bet that the homeowners consider themselves ‘christians’. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/905 "2021-07-24T02:19:03Z")
An anti-vaxx mob protesting outside a cancer clinic for requiring masks, attacked a cancer patient trying to get inside. > **[Breast Cancer Patient Attacked by Violent Anti-Mask Protest Outside Clinic](https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkbxmg/breast-cancer-patient-attacked-anti-mask-protest)** > > “Do you know anything about chemotherapy? Do you know what happens to the immune system?” ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/906 "2021-07-24T03:10:52Z")
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