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http://www.salon.com/2015/11/17/lets_deport_the_white_males_will_we_coddle_terrorists_or_rid_ourselves_of_danger/Let me be clear: I am not a racist. I have friends of all races and religions. And yet political correctness can not erase the grim fact that the authors of these atrocities all belong to the same race, creed and gender.
Columbine Massacre was committed by White Male Protestants
Aurora Theatre massacre was committed by a White Male Protestant
Sandy Hook Massacre was committed by a White Male Protestant
Tucson Massacre was committed by a White Male Protestant
Roseburg Massacre was committed by a White Male Protestant
Charleston Massacre was committed by a White Male Protestant
Oak Creek Sikh Temple Massacre was committed by a White Male Protestant
San Ysidro McDonalds Massacre was committed by a White Male Protestant
UT Austin Tower Massacre was committed by a White Male Protestant
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In recent decades WMPs have orchestrated terror plots from within the safety of their enclaves, then burst into unprotected citizen-zones armed with easily-obtained paramilitary gear, assault rifles and grenades. Bound to one another only by an invisible network of suicidal terror, these criminals often work in cells of a single member, making it nearly impossible to trace them back to a mastermind.
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Lets bring barges and ships to our ports, load them with WPMs, and shove them off. Liberals will surely object that this type of roundup smacks of racism, and of course, many of us have met a White Male Protestant in our school or place of work who does not appear a murderous terrorist. But the risks are simply too great. How could we possibly evaluate each and every White Male Protestant in America to make sure that he harbors no plots to murder kindergartners and their teachers?
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Generations of inbreeding has created a race of WMPs highly skilled at tasks like social media, video games, and trading stocks, yet unfit for the useful jobs that host-nations desire, such as farming, cooking, cleaning, and building. We must be prepared for the possibility that other nations will turn back our boatloads of refugees at their shores. At the risk of sounding heartless: thats not our concern.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Maybe you shouldn't have made the statement in the first place.
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)"All in the Family's" Archie Bunker became a hero to those who thought like him. While most laughed at his bigoted rants there where those shouting at the TV, "Right on Archie!"
I use to think that RWNJs were totally satire blind but some DUers have opened my eyes that some of us don't see irony and satire for what it is- political and social commentary.
Back in DU2 one of us got irate over a "racist" toon that was demeaning Latinos. It was by Lalo Alcaraz. I wish I could remember the toon but here's a couple from Lalo. The first is his strip La Cuco Rocha, the second his editorial on Paris.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)That was some of the most leaden and plodding satire I've seen in a while, Salon really is hit or miss, when they are good they're quite good when they are bad.. Ick..
I'm about to go have coffee with a friend, maybe I'll feel better after that.
monicaangela
(1,508 posts)the artwork is excellent. I have to say I kind of enjoyed the fox news skit also, it does sound like something that would get the talking heads popping over at that network, and I do believe it is pretty difficult sometimes to tell the difference between white supremacist and conservatives.
TommyCelt
(838 posts)Archie Bunker = Donald Trump
Trump is running a dumbed-down right wing bumper sticker campaign. Dumber than the Tea Party. No substance, no understanding of the issues, just soundbites catering to the lowest common denominator.
But it's resonating. And it continues to resonate. What SHOULD be satire has become the leading GOP presidential candidate. I weep for this country.
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LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)You'll expound on this of course, yes?
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yardwork
(61,657 posts)Lol.
trumad
(41,692 posts)Come on---surely you know---oh never mind.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Probably shouldn't be online at all but I don't have anything else to do right now.
What did I say that you disagree with?
trumad
(41,692 posts)Just wanted to make sure you knew it was satire.
Fumesucker
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awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)retrowire
(10,345 posts)lol couldn't help myself
mdbl
(4,973 posts)Gun control is a good thing. Get machine guns away from non-professionals.
ileus
(15,396 posts)TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)It is written by Mark Sundeen and is tagged:
Topics: Satire, Deport the white men, Refugees, Syrian, Race
ileus
(15,396 posts)TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)Android3.14
(5,402 posts)I understand the satirical attempt, but this totally fell flat.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Literally one of the dumbest things I have read in what is ostensibly a legitimate news/opinion website.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)We already live in a world where the tumblr cognoscenti have no qualms telling people with a straight face that it's not fair to suggest Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorism has anything whatsoever to do with Islamic Fundamentalism--- but the guy who shot up UCSB was the fault of Seth Rogen movies.
I'm not sure what else the author wants. The folks who will cluck and coo over how brilliant this is, he's already preaching to the choir. The actual bigots and xenophobes don't read salon.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)The "don't read Salon" part I mean.. There's quite a few wingnuts in the comments sections, Shooter242 has been around for at least a decade there.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)IronLionZion
(45,462 posts)unless the shooter is muslim. Don't forget that
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Maybe would should focus on the bigger problem and ban Americans?
Not to mention that refugees are the people fleeing from the terrorists, they are not themselves terrorists.
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)And what actions have we , as a nation, taken to reduce the terrorism here? Diddly squat. Glass houses and all that.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)I don't think this "satire" has been fully thought through.
gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... the whole point was to turn the conservative's arguments back on them, inverting said arguments by substituting atrocities committed by White Male Protestants for those committed by Muslims. It was meant to expose the staggering stupidity of recent conservative comments, but that apparently sailed right over the heads of those who cannot perceive irony. Maybe that inability is a condition akin to color blindness. Ask your doctor if there's a pill for that.
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gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... we have a winner! "Straw man," huh? Oh, please... DO elaborate! Where do you find a "Straw Man" in that?
Welcome to DU, by the way.
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gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)You're going to be fun to watch.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)I am kind tired and I have been working the attacks in my NOMO story, because one of the characters lost her father in a terror attack 30 years ago, so I kind of have to work it in since the story takes place in the present.
Anyways, I think the point is that WMPs commit horrific acts quite frequently, but no one runs around with their hair on fire being fearful of WMPs. If anyone from any other group commits a horrific act hair bursts into flames and well mostly white people become fearful buy more gunz and start talking about how violent that group is and if they are from another country send them all back where they came from even if mostly white people don't know where they are from, hint many have had family in the US longer than the US has existed.
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Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)Yet, when there is a murder and it's done by a minority hair bursts into flames. I have seen it so many times in my life it's almost funny in it's frequency.
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Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Just sayin' ....
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)gollygee
(22,336 posts)On Wed Nov 18, 2015, 11:46 PM an alert was sent on the following post:
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ismnotwasm
(41,992 posts)A shut out.
Look, I'm not a racist. Some of my best friends are white Protestants. But...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027357096
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The racism is really getting to be over the top around here
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Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
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Explanation: this was actually a petty good satirical OP. I thank the one who posts this during days where xenophobia has become acceptable even here on DU.
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hobbit709
(41,694 posts)On Wed Nov 18, 2015, 11:46 PM an alert was sent on the following post:
Look, I'm not a racist. Some of my best friends are white Protestants. But...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027357096
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The racism is really getting to be over the top around here
You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Wed Nov 18, 2015, 11:53 PM, and the Jury voted 0-7 to LEAVE IT.
Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: This is satire. Get a grip people
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Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: This is not racism.
Juror #7 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: yeah it is and this is a perfect example of satire pointing that out.
marble falls
(57,112 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)on the 'satire'.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)this needs to be on it, and read to members of the (censored, pro gun people that always seem to swarm)
Atman
(31,464 posts)Not surprising they divorced while I was very young.
npk
(3,660 posts)When do we start?