# So You Think You Can Protest

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-protest/413319>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 27, 2007, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-protest/413319 "2007-07-27T02:24:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-protest/413319/141 "2007-08-01T19:43:52Z")

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[QUOTE=koeeoaddi]  
Lots of rich liberals out there. A libertarian is a liberal who’s been audited. 😉  
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I’ve always heard it as, “A Libertarian is a Republican who smokes pot.”

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-protest/413319/142 "2007-08-01T19:47:04Z")

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[QUOTE=Martin Hyde]  
Yup, [really](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118558823756181036.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries).  
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:dubious: I’m as big a fan of _The Onion_ as anybody, but when they start using the _WSJ’s_ logo on their articles, they’ve crossed a line! Alert Rupert Murdoch!

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-protest/413319/143 "2007-08-02T03:27:39Z")

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[QUOTE=gonzomax]  
It revealed the ugly underbelly of the citizens . It showed who they really are. Beating people that show feeling for the civil rights of the blacks or the people we massacre in Viet Nam or Iraq demonstrates the ugly side of us. Calling them names to dehumanize them . That is the tactic of the warrior. We fought slants, chinks, gooks etc. We did not kill humans but a subclass inferior to us in every way.  
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So, what epithets are American GIs using in Iraq and Afghanistan? “Sand nigger” and “dune coon” are _tres passe,_ one hears.

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**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-protest/413319/144 "2007-08-03T19:29:31Z")

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Related tangentally: I had to drive through an abortion protest today with my two kids. I really didn’t need for them to look at full-colour, 3’x4’ placards of aborted fetuses. Assholes.

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