New ANnti-Obama Sticker Pulled....

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edited March 2012 in A Moving Train
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Seller pulls website after racist anti-Obama sticker goes viral

I don't think there's a need for a sticker such as this one...what do you think?

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  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    really if dumb ignorant people want to identify themselves ... why stop them!??
  • Meg8686
    Meg8686 Posts: 1,234
    polaris_x wrote:
    really if dumb ignorant people want to identify themselves ... why stop them!??
    I can imagine any parked car with this on it wouldn't last long...
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  • StillHere
    StillHere Posts: 7,795
    i find it offensive personally
    but ... that's just me
    do what you want
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  • territamu
    territamu Posts: 194
    Seeing that just makes me sad. How do people live with such ignorance and hatred? Very very sad....
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  • DriftingByTheStorm
    DriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    StillHere wrote:
    i find it offensive personally

    "personally"?
    :D

    It's not even subjective.

    The bumper sticker is OBJECTIVELY & PATENTLY OFFENSIVE.

    "Renege", based off the latin "renegare" means "to go back on"

    "Re-NIG" simply seems like HATE SPEECH to me.
    Although here in America there is no provision for punishment of generic hate speech (thanks, constitution!, ?) ... this seems like it might actually be prosecutable under existing speech laws for "INCITEMENT TO RIOT".

    Given that the abbreviated "NIG" in "Re-NIG" can & does have ONLY ONE MEANING ...
    I imagine that you could have a pretty good case in court using "incitement to riot" in your arguments.

    Sheesh.
    Whomever said "let ignorant people identify themselves"
    Lol.
    But this is a bridge too far, imho.
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  • DopeBeastie
    DopeBeastie Posts: 2,513
    We The People enjoy our free speech, in ways we don't even know. But, with that, we are subject to speech with which we disagree. In my town, there's a cranky old man who went to the hardware store, and purchased a sheet of letters. He "wrote" the same thing... this "don't re-nig" statement on the back of his truck, and has been driving around town "saying" this now for years.

    It is what it is. Silly and juvenile.

    I don't want this old man going to jail. I just want to continue ignoring him.
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,470
    there is a big facebook debate about this going on right now.

    of course, in true andew breitbart fashion, the tea party people are saying "it is photoshopped" and "it's being taken out of context", which we all know is bullshit.

    these people are going to marginalize themselves again... and i hope that insurance companies drop these people who have these stickers, because if i were an insurance comapany and something happens to their car as a result of having one of these stickers on there i would tell them that their policy does not cover damages incurred as a result of stupidly putting a blatantly racist capmaign sticker on your vehicle..that is only inviting damage to occur.
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  • StillHere
    StillHere Posts: 7,795
    DriftingByTheStorm wrote:
    StillHere wrote:
    i find it offensive personally

    "personally"?
    :D

    It's not even subjective.

    The bumper sticker is OBJECTIVELY & PATENTLY OFFENSIVE.

    "Renege", based off the latin "renegare" means "to go back on"

    "Re-NIG" simply seems like HATE SPEECH to me.
    Although here in America there is no provision for punishment of generic hate speech (thanks, constitution!, ?) ... this seems like it might actually be prosecutable under existing speech laws for "INCITEMENT TO RIOT".

    Given that the abbreviated "NIG" in "Re-NIG" can & does have ONLY ONE MEANING ...
    I imagine that you could have a pretty good case in court using "incitement to riot" in your arguments.

    Sheesh.
    Whomever said "let ignorant people identify themselves"
    Lol.
    But this is a bridge too far, imho.


    yep...personally

    other people i'm sure will not find it "personally" offensive
    and they're probably idiots..but just the same ;)
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  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    jesus.

    but I'm not clear on the meaning of the image on the left hand side of the sticker.
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  • brianlux
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    I just hope I don't see one on when I'm driving because running other cars off the road can be bad for my bumpers. There's an idiot wind still blowing in America and it's called racism.
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  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,081
    Apart from the blatant racism, it's also stupid.

    To renege (AKA to go back on or change a deal) would be to vote Republican, to not renege would be to vote for Obama again.
  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,081
    Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:
    jesus.

    but I'm not clear on the meaning of the image on the left hand side of the sticker.

    Obama's 2008 logo.
  • the wolf
    the wolf Posts: 7,027
    fucking disgusting.
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    mookeywrench wrote:
    Apart from the blatant racism, it's also stupid.

    To renege (AKA to go back on or change a deal) would be to vote Republican, to not renege would be to vote for Obama again.
    "Re-NIg" actually comes a racist attempt at humor...an old joke...nowhere close to the definition of renege
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  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    Meg8686 wrote:
    polaris_x wrote:
    really if dumb ignorant people want to identify themselves ... why stop them!??
    I can imagine any parked car with this on it wouldn't last long...

    one would like to think that ... i would say the incidence of vandalism associated with this sticker would be the same as those carrying a regular obama sticker in some parts of the country ...
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    sure got some attention

    consider the source... also Klan stickers... :?
  • ComeToTX
    ComeToTX Austin Posts: 8,074
    At least anyone dumb enough to put this on their car is admitting why they don't like him. There's a lot of racism on the right covered up by their bullshit reasons and excuses. I'm looking at you Birthers.
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  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    edited March 2012
    ComeToTX wrote:
    At least anyone dumb enough to put this on their car is admitting why they don't like him. There's a lot of racism on the right covered up by their bullshit reasons and excuses. I'm looking at you Birthers.
    does this sound prejudiced :?

    I might feel Obama was not born in this country ... does it mean I am racist... NO!
    I don't see his color or anyone's as an issue, I have friends and loves of all colors.

    So you are lumping me with others you call racist and generalizing.

    The colors that you brought up here are red and blue and the hypocrisy continues.
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,470
    absolutely amazing that we can not agree that the bumper sticker is inappropriate, racist, and is the work of a racist, and the people that rock that sticker are racist...

    :roll:
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    The sticker is clearly racist. I wonder if it comes free of charge when you buy some truck nuts for your hitch?
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