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wyldwolf

(43,869 posts)
Thu Mar 22, 2012, 12:13 PM Mar 2012

Creator of the offensive anti-Obama bumper sticker claims the 'n' word isn't offensive

Writing for Forbes, Roger Friedman interviews the site's owner, Paula Smith. Ms. Smith, who hails from Hinesville, Georgia, insists that neither she nor the sticker are racist. Who knows what Smith really believes, but her logic is a stretch, to put it gently.

"I do find it amazing and entertaining that one of our stickers has become a racist thing," Ms. Smith told Forbes.

She even tried arguing that the dictionary does not define the "N-Word" as racist. Wisely, Friedman posted the actual definition from dictionary.com, which says the word, "is now probably the most offensive word in English. Its degree of offensiveness has increased markedly in recent years, although it has been used in a derogatory manner since at least the Revolutionary War. Definitions 1a, 1b, and 2 represent meanings that are deeply disparaging and are used when the speaker deliberately wishes to cause great offense."

Her protestations aside, Ms. Smith appears to have removed the bumper sticker from her site.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/don-t-nig-purveyor-paula-smith-says-bumper-185405237.html

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Creator of the offensive anti-Obama bumper sticker claims the 'n' word isn't offensive (Original Post) wyldwolf Mar 2012 OP
Wonder if she knows what the phrase "ignorant hater" means. polichick Mar 2012 #1
I will key any car I see with that sticker.j/k Obamacare Mar 2012 #2
So much racism we can't even keep up with reporting it all. Shannon1981 Mar 2012 #3
This woman is a typical right wing freak RedEarth Mar 2012 #4
O.o sakabatou Mar 2012 #5
Roger should use other words fightforfreedom123 Mar 2012 #6
 

Obamacare

(277 posts)
2. I will key any car I see with that sticker.j/k
Fri Mar 23, 2012, 03:25 AM
Mar 2012

Or maybe just remove the sticker and replace it with stupid white trash 2012!!

Shannon1981

(51 posts)
3. So much racism we can't even keep up with reporting it all.
Fri Mar 23, 2012, 05:00 AM
Mar 2012

Amazing, really, in supposedly what is a time where public racism is unacceptable.

 
6. Roger should use other words
Sat Mar 24, 2012, 02:26 AM
Mar 2012

Feminazi, deaf and dumb, faggot, lezzie, sodomite, rag head, goatf*cker, towelhead or kenyan.

:sarcasm off:

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