You offer as your example of the abuse suffered by the Obama daughters the reader comments at a news site.
No, I offered shameful remarks towards Obama's daughters AND the fact I caught a few of my students calling Obama the "n word".
This, of course, was in response to THIS thread in which one random child said something crude about an adult.
Try responding to my whole post. :shrug:
There is a reason why most online news outlets no longer offer reader comments: In the anonymity of the Internet, any cretin or freak with a screen name can post vicious, unhinged abuse.
As opposed to a protest, in which everyone is wearing their "Hello, my name is ____" tag, correct? :roll:
Any attack on politicians' children is awful and inexcusable. But your example is of so-called adults posting on the Internet. This thread is about a little boy among the protestors in D.C. Very different situation.
Yes...one is one child and the other is a bunch of adults picking on children. One group should know better.
Also, I can't help but notice you've ignored the fact I caught school aged children calling what was their next President the "n word", which is exactly what you asked for. I wonder why you're ignoring that.
And I'm really tired this morning, from both sides of the aisle, of all the "Yeah, but what about ____ (insert other party)."
Umm...isn't that exactly what you did? Asked for someone to give you evidence of "other party" doing the same thing?
If you're tired of it, why did you request it? After all, Tigerace didn't direct his comment towards you, you replied and asked for it.
So let me see if I have your position straight...you're tired of something which you specifically request to talk about and then when given an example, ignore said example, all the while seemingly claiming an anonymous child saying "screw you" to an adult politician is somehow worse than a bunch of adults calling a child, who is a private citizen, all sorts of hateful and racist names.
Did I get that about right?
I think the treatment that Obama had to endure from racist losers was lousy. And the way people treated the his daughters, and the Bush twins, and Chelsea Clinton, and Amy Carter, and so on....pathetic and terrible. Unfortunately adults are so damn partisan that it makes them crazy.
100% agree. It's one thing to criticize the politician, but it's something else to attack the politician's family (Hillary's husband obviously excluded for obvious reasons).
But I don't recall anti-Obama people encouraging their pre-teens to start protest fires.
No, they just called him and his family "apes" and other racist things, claimed he was a Kenyan Muslim, etc.
In other words, they were every bit as hateful, both children and adults.
To be clear, I'm not saying either is the right way to behave and were that child mine, he wouldn't have been in the middle of a protest in the first place. But let's not pretend the hatred exists only one side or the other.
