Quote# 121917



Jimmy Marr, Raw Story 17 Comments [10/9/2016 3:55:29 AM]
Fundie Index: 4
Submitted By: Doubting Thomas

Quote# 121914

A Kentucky Republican candidate said he’d rather lose his election than stop posting racist content on Facebook.

Dan Johnson, who’s challenging Democratic state Rep. Linda Belcher for the 49th district statehouse seat, has been sharing posts on social media comparing President Barack Obama to a monkey and other plainly racist messages, reported WDRB-TV.

Johnson, who is also bishop of the Heart of Fire Church in Louisville, frequently shares Confederate flag images and has called for states to ban the practice of Islam.

The candidate, whose church boasts on a sign that it’s “not politically correct,” asked a TV reporter exactly which of his Facebook posts could be considered offensive.

So the reporter showed him posts that showed the Obama family with ape-life features added to their faces, and another showing Ronald Reagan nursing a chimpanzee identified by a caption as Obama as an infant.

A GOP county chair in Colorado resigned earlier this year for sharing the Reagan-chimp social media image, and a Pennsylvania mayor is being urged to step down over his own racist Facebook posts.

Johnson explained that he just considered the images to be light-hearted amusement.

“It wasn’t meant to be racist, I can tell you that — my history’s good there,” Johnson said. “I can see how people would be offended in that. I wasn’t trying to offend anybody, but, I think Facebook’s entertaining.”

He considered images comparing the nation’s first black president to a monkey no different than what any other president has faced.

“I looked this up — there has been no president that hasn’t had that scrutiny, not one,” Johnson said. “I think it would be racist not to do the same for President Obama as we’ve done for every other president.”

He defended his flurry of Confederate flag posts to be a celebration of state’s rights, and complained that conservatives were under attack for supporting the constitutional rule law, and then argued that Muslims should not be allowed to practice their religion.

“My thing for Islam, if you want to be in America, be an American,” Johnson said. “The thing about all religions in America, they don’t oppose America or want to destroy America, or some way or another get us to take on another law, like Sharia law. I hate that.”

Johnson insisted that he’s not racist — but he’s also not sorry.

“I love America, I love people,” the GOP candidate said. “I believe red, yellow, black and white, all are precious in God’s site. I’m not a racist.”

The chairman of the state’s Republican Party strongly condemned Johnson’s social media activity, saying the posts were “outrageous” and apologizing to Kentucky’s black voters.

“They represent the rankest sort of prejudice present in our society and do not in any way, shape or form represent the views of the Republican Party of Kentucky or the many fine candidates representing us on the ballot this November,” said Mac Brown, the state GOP chair.

Johnson said he’s willing to lose the election over his Facebook posts because sharing those images — most of which he deleted before apparently deactivating his account — were just too important to his self-expression.

“I want to be myself,” Johnson said. “I would rather be myself than be elected as state representative of the 49th.”

Dan Johnson, Raw Story 8 Comments [10/8/2016 6:53:43 AM]
Fundie Index: 1
Submitted By: Demon Duck of Doom

Quote# 121897

A mother in Washington this week said she was outraged by an AP history lesson which extolled the virtues of slavery and accused Hillary Clinton of “setting back” the women’s rights movement.

Archaeologist and author Rachel Grant wrote on Twitter that she felt physically ill after her daughter brought home a 55-page packet titled “U.S. History Special Victims Unit,” which she described as a “non-white male hit list.”

“This is what her AP history teacher is including as part of the curriculum! Advanced US history with a sharp lesson in present day racism,” Grant explained.

According to the document, African-Americans “took full advantage” of welfare programs that were created by President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society.”

“The long-term results, however, have been devastating,” the document says. “Over three centuries of a strong work ethic, cohesive families, the thirst for education and Christian values as vital parts of the African-American heritage gave way to long-term dependence on the government and the erosion of the work ethic.”

Another section of the packet claims that “[t]he cause for women took steps backward when President Bill Clinton, notorious womanizer as Governor of AR, was publicly accused by Juanita Broderick, Kathleen Wiley, Paul Jones, Dolly Kyle, and others of rape and harassment.”

“First Lady Hillary Clinton joined her husband’s attack on the victim and she ‘stood by her man,’ thereby setting back some distance the cause of the women’s fight against exploitation,” the lesson adds.

It goes on to claim that “black lives did not matter so much” to President Barack Obama because he presided over a “disastrous economy for eight years.”

“I think I’m going to vomit,” Grant tweeted. “This man is teaching my daughter.”

Grant said that this was the second year that her daughter had been in the class of this AP history teacher but she never felt that she could complain about his politics until now.

“This isn’t politics. This is an agenda,” she said. “As an archaeologist w/a history minor I know how important history is. And this is all the non-white male US history some students will get,”

“I’ve made a copy and now I’m scanning the entire 55 page document. The principal and school board will hear about this,” Grant promised.

Unnamed teacher, Raw Story 11 Comments [10/6/2016 6:20:18 PM]
Fundie Index: 5
Submitted By: Demon Duck of Doom

Quote# 121896

A Pennsylvania mayor is being urged to step down for repeatedly posting racist content and remarks on his Facebook page.

Charles Wasko, the mayor of West York, compared President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, to monkeys in multiple posts and joked about lynching the nation’s first black president in another social media post, reported the York Dispatch.

Another post suggested black Americans were incapable of caring for themselves without “socialism,” which Wasko defined as “government entitlement stuff,” and they slurred hard-working whites as racist if they complained about the arrangement.

The posts, which remained online and publicly viewable early Thursday afternoon, were made over a period of months and often drew approval from the mayor’s Facebook friends.

One post showed a young Clint Eastwood holding a noose, captioned: “Barry, this rope is for you. You wanna bring that empty chair over here?”

A friend of Wasko’s suggested lynching Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and other Democratic politicians.

“Throw some more up, for killary hanoi john. nancy, harry and the list goes on,” posted friend Phillip Hied.

City Council president Shawn Mauck and other elected officials in West York have called on Wasko to step down, after the social media posts were publicized.

“I almost don’t know what to say,” Mauck told the newspaper. “I almost want to throw up.”

Four of the council’s seven members — two Democrats and two Republicans — reached by reporters agreed that Wasko should resign.

The mayor did not respond to repeated requests for comment, but he posted two new items on his Facebook page — one slurring liberals and another promoting Donald Trump for president.

City officials were concerned that Wasko has some oversight of day-to-day operations for the West York Police Department, which serves a population of 5,000 where about a quarter of its residents are minorities.

“With those types of thoughts in your mind, how can you oversee the police department?” said City Councilman Brian Wilson. “We can’t have anybody being racist or bigoted — especially an elected official.”

Charles Wasko, Phillip Heid and others, Raw Story 5 Comments [10/6/2016 6:19:47 PM]
Fundie Index: 1
Submitted By: Demon Duck of Doom

Quote# 121885

A Swedish mother of four has allegedly been attacked by a Muslim gang for wearing a Star of David necklace.

TLV Faces, a Jewish news outlet, has reported that Anna Sjogren was attacked while walking through a neighbourhood with a high Muslim population.

Sjoren told the WZO Centre for Countering Antisemitism:

“A Muslim girl saw that I was wearing the Star of David on my neck and she started swearing at me and spat in my face. I got very upset and pushed her off”

“There were at least ten witnesses to the attack. All ten of them were wearing hijabs or scarfs in the colors of the PLO. Some surrounding witnesses claim that I ‘tripped’ and fell and that no one hurt me. It’s just unbelievable.”

“Before we got to the hospital, one of the attackers gave me threatened me saying, ‘shut up or we’ll kill you.’”

She was apparently hit with a sharp object by another girl in the crowd. When she arrived at hospital she had been beaten so badly she could not talk or see.

Sjoren was initially afraid to go to the police, saying “I cannot go to the police. The worst thing is that they will get my name and address. They’ll know where to find me and know and know I am the Jew who reported it.”

Writing on her Facebook page, Sjoren said “The Star of David is extremely meaningful and significant. I will never take it down no matter what happens. When other Facebook users show support I will stand up proudly for Israel, I will never let any one silence me. Am Yisrael Chai. We will never forget and never forgive”.

Sjoren is due to speak to the Security Organisation of the Jewish Community on Monday.

Swedish Muslim gang, Everyday Antisemitism 24 Comments [10/5/2016 3:17:18 AM]
Fundie Index: 4
Submitted By: Demon Duck of Doom

Quote# 121880

[Comment on article about whether British Jews feel the Labour Party is soft on antisemitism]

I am pro-Gentile.
I believe that it is judaism which makes the differentiation between jews and Gentiles.
Correct?
Surely PRO-semitism is the same as anti-Gentilism??
(Capitals-or-not deliberate).
And most of the world is labelled as Gentile by judaism.
Why should the vast majority of the world's population be dismissed as Gentile(not jewish) by jews?
Why can't Gentiles dismiss jews as not-Gentile???
Without attracting ugly names.

PeterCouch, Independent  6 Comments [10/5/2016 3:15:31 AM]
Fundie Index: 1

Quote# 121864

In case you thought today couldn’t get any more weirder, a Trump supporter was busted for selling Nazi and Confederate flags at the 161st Bloomsburg Fair in Pennsylvania. Visitor Chloe Winters was enjoying the fair when she encountered a white-haired old man selling the flags of fascism and slavery – along with the inevitable “Hillary For Prison” signs, and she was absolutely appalled.

“I was absolutely shocked and appalled when I saw this Nazi flag hanging at the Bloomsburg Fair yesterday. This flag represents the brutal and horrific genocide of innocent people. It stands for the hatred and destruction of a religion I feel blessed to be a part of. It’s 2016 and the world is still full of SO MUCH hate. When is it going to end? I’m sad to say that I’ll never go to the Bloomsburg Fair again, but it looks like I’m not wanted there anyway” she wrote on Facebook.

As if the man wasn’t deplorable enough already, it turns out that flag-vendor Lawrence Betsinger is also a registered sex-offender for his conviction of more than 20 counts of possessing child pornography, which he doesn’t seem to believe is a big deal. ““I didn’t do anything wrong. I downloaded some shit on the Internet” he told PhillyMag.com.

Betsinger doesn’t seem to understand what the fuss over the flags are, either. “If you don’t want it, don’t look at it. I’m not making anybody buy it. I guess there’s no First Amendment at the Bloomsburg Fair. I can’t see where it would be some tragic thing just because somebody bitched and moaned about it.”

Deplorable indeed.

Lawrence Betsinger, Occupy Democrats 15 Comments [10/3/2016 3:15:07 AM]
Fundie Index: 2
Submitted By: Demon Duck of Doom

Quote# 121857

A Georgia man whose family was attacked by a Muslim woman wielding an American flag said he’s preparing for civil war if Hillary Clinton wins the election.

Jimmy Arno told NPR he’s concerned about the direction of the United States, and he cited the bizarre encounter last year as proof that armed revolt might be necessary to keep people like himself in charge.

“I want grandchildren, but the way this country is right now, I don’t want to do that to these children,” said Arno, an auto mechanic and the father of two teenage children. “Think about what it’s going to be like in 18 years, if a child is born right now.”

The Lawrenceburg family made local and national news last year after 30-year-old Amina Ahra took the flag from their mailbox and attacked Dami Arno and her 17-year-old daughter, and her 14-year-old son grabbed the family gun to ward off the attacker until police arrived.

“If you go to a movie theater, you’re liable to get shot, you go to a mall, you’re liable to get shot,” Jimmy Arno said. “If you go to Atlanta or a major city, you’re liable to be shot or attacked.”

Dani Arno expressed concern about a Black Lives Matter protest at the local high school, and Jimmy Arno expressed dismay at the demonstration against the display of Confederate flags.

The Arnos used to fly a Confederate flag but took it down out of courtesy after some of their daughter’s friends said it made them uncomfortable, although they still hang a framed portrait of Robert E. Lee over their living room couch.

Jimmy Arno blames President Barack Obama for the increase in racial tensions that worry him

“I know that we were a whole lot further along racially eight years ago than we are today,” he said.

The couple both plan to vote for Donald Trump, saying Hillary Clinton would just be a continuation of the Obama administration, and they dismissed stories about the real estate developer cheating contractors and other “ordinary people.”

“Hillary wants to be elected and Donald Trump wants to be elected,” Jimmy Arno said. “They’re going to talk bad about everything that they can about the other candidate so that you vote for them. I discount the whole thing, because I want to know what your plan is to help the country, that’s what I want to know. Donald Trump, if I understand him correctly, and I hope I do, he wants to stop the flow of illegal people in this country. Stop the flow. Well, by stopping the flow, more Americans have an opportunity to go to work because they’re not losing their jobs to illegal immigrants.”

Jimmy Arno told NPR he was considering joining a local militia group, because he wants to be prepared in case his darkest fears become a reality.

“Should martial law, civil war — whatever — break out in this country, they will uphold the Constitution and rebuild our loss,” he said. “The war that’s going to break out if Hillary Clinton’s elected, if that happens. Your patriots are going to overthrow the government.”

Jimmy Arno, Raw Story 21 Comments [10/1/2016 6:39:07 PM]
Fundie Index: 1
Submitted By: Demon Duck of Doom

Quote# 121834

(A letter received by Britney Glaser, a news anchor with a black adopted son.)

Brittany,

Give back the little black boy while you have a chance.

They grow up to be out of control and rapists. It's a breed you cannot deny.

I work with black teens 2-3 times a week. They talk about having sex.

Don't let your daughter get raped when he is a teenager.

I'm older, but have seen what happens when blacks get to be of age.

Maybe you are trying to make a point with adoption. You don't need to do that. You are already well liked.

A Concerned Citizen.

I'm not racist.

Anonymous, Britney Off Script 22 Comments [10/1/2016 3:39:06 AM]
Fundie Index: 10