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So now we have the social media assassination poll on Facebook. I hope the Secret Service is paying attention…
You can answer 1) Yes 2) Maybe 3) If he cuts my healthcare or 4) No.
Facebook users can report it by following clicking “Report as offensive.” It’s been up for a while now and obviously hasn’t been pulled.
UPDATE (via TPM):
Late update: The application that hosted these polls has apparently been disabled. The links above now lead to an error message: “The application ‘Polls’ is temporarily unavailable due to an issue with its third-party developer. We are investigating the situation and apologize for any inconvenience.”Late late update: The Secret Service is investigating the incident and asked Facebook to remove the poll, Greg Sargent reports.
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Facebook users should click “report as offensive”I’d suggest not voting.
This isn’t the sort of dialogue that should be encouraged by engaging in it.
Secret Service’s contact page is here:
http://secretservice.tpaq.trea…
A list of Secret Service local offices numbers are here:
http://secretservice.tpaq.trea…
if you’re inclined to call them and alert them.
What are the current results?I cannot access Facebook from work, and I don’t think I would want to for this. But I am curious as to the current results.
Reported, reposted and retweeted.
oookay..So peeps still don’t think the opposition to this president is batshit crazy and has a racist component to it?
You have to vote to see themand I don’t recommend voting.
Really, who cares what the results are? It’s not a scientific poll.
use the “Report” link at the *bottom* of the page to avoid adding the appIf you click “report as offensive”, I believe you are reporting to the application developer (and adding the application). If you click “Report” at the bottom of the page, your report goes to Facebook. Or so I understand.
Just followed the linkand seems the poll has already been pulled.
Or, at least, the app is down.
But there is no danger in the current tone of debate, right?
Right.
Can someone forward this POS to Rachel and Keith, please? I don’t have their addresses.
Killed? No.Get his ass whooped real good?
FUCK YES!!!
A: for being a pussy
B: for bamboozling and lying to the GLBT community
C: for being a pussy.
eh?Batshit crazy yes, but racist? Did I miss something?
If I were the passive-aggressive type, I would point out…That accusing someone of “being a pussy” is pretty damned sexist. But fortunately, I’m not at all passive-aggressive.
LOL!“being a pussy”, “being a wimp”, “being a wuss”: I’m not saying he’s being a vagina LOL
I’m saying he makes Caspar Milquetoast look like The Terminator.
just want to encourage you to examinethe inherently sexist, misogynist meaning in the expression “being a pussy.” Cuz we’re on a blog hosted by a black lesbian where issues of race, gender, sexuality, oppression, marginalization, discrimination, civil rights, etc. are all on the table in an electrifying mix. There are plenty of alternatives. Peace.
Monica didn’t say that all the opposition wasracist. She did say that the opposition has a racist component though. What part of “Indonesian Muslim terrorist who’s a welfare thug” and pictures of Obama as a witch doctor, among many many many
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/…
Look up all of these stories (Pam has been writing about this for quite a while, look in some of the archived stories in the above link) and then tell me that none of the opposition to Obama has a racist component.
(Mind you, I don’t think all of the opposition to Obama is racist (heck, there’s a few things that I don’t like about Obama my damn self…)
There May Be AlternativesBut Obama is deserving of the worst possible name.
The president I voted for is NOT the person currently in the White House.
His supporters aren’t furious enough.
Worst possible name?“Pussy” is only the “worst possible name” in the opinion of someone that doesn’t respect people that have pussies. Check yourself.
The article of this threadThere is no mention of the adjectives you listed. Nothing racist, only crazy rantings. Ever hear the story about the boy who cried wolf?
Gonna run out of words.
If someone screws you over, would you call them a prick? I think it’s pretty obvious that if an insult to women was intended, a much nastier word would have been used.
I’m sure that many who called for MLK’s assassinationwere not racist either. They simply disagreed with his political and/or religious views. His being black had nothing to do with their rage and animosity.
As a rule, I avoid using body parts as epithetsObama has shown himself to be a liar, totally untrustworty and unwilling to be honorable about his actions.
What can you say about him that is any worse than that?
Get A Grip.I have 4 pussies.
And I respect them all.
3 of them normally sleeps on my bed.
He’s That Too.He’s most definitely a prick for screwing us over.
But he’s still a pussy, for being weak, timid and a republican pushover.
I’ve never heard anyone call a woman a “pussy” before, that one’s new to me! LOL Towards women, I’ve only heard it in reference to their vag. Not even in a female-female catfight have I ever heard a woman call another woman a “pussy”! LOL
Of courseYou’ve never heard a woman called a “pussy” before because it would be redundant, as that term in the context we are discussing implies that all women are weak, and that a man being insulted with the term is as weak as a woman. It is meaningless to insult a woman as being like a woman, but male privilege makes insulting a man as being like a woman quite potent.
It is denigrating all of women as a class to insult a single man, the insult can not suggest anything else.
Once againMLK was a leader of a movement for equality for the African-American community. President Obama is the leader of ALL Americans. Not quite the same thing. I seem to remember Obama running for President as a leader of all Americans, not because he was another MLK. (I sure hope that wasn’t the reason you voted for him.)
I’ll tell you what: Let’s only elect white men for President, then we won’t have this problem of disagreeing with them only because of their race.
LOLNow that’s funny. (And I won’t go any further by asking which 3.)
“I sure hope that wasn’t the reason you voted for him.”I’m not going to engage you further on this off topic argument.
I will simply point out that millions of Americans did not vote for Obama simply because they would not vote for any person of color.
That is a fact. You certainly have the right to argue against that. You can continue to pretend that race is not a factor in the rage and animosity that we see directed at our president.
However, reasonable people know that racism is a factor in what we have seen in recent months. Also, it is not a leap to assume that the person who made this poll is likely a racist.
Racism results in extremism. That’s why MLK was killed. If someone kills Obama, there is a very strong chance that the person who does the deed would indeed be a racist.
Oh, quite the contraryit depends on who your perceived constiuents are. Given Bill Clinton being heralded as “the first black president” and his overewhelming support in the black community, some of the opposition to Clinton did have a racist component. Hell, some of the opposition to FDR, Truman, and LBJ had a racist component. So even if we only elected white men for the Presidency (as you suggest) there could still be a racist component to the opposition against them (again, a component, not all of the opposition).
Pardon my spelling butyou understand what I’m saying.
And, no, I did not vote for Obama because of his race.
Damn!LMAO
I’ll Tell You! LOLMinnie, Chloe and Athena.
And then there’s Isis, who prefers to sleep in the other bedroom.
Sheeit!Women aren’t weak!
Apparently you’ve never heard of my hero, Pam Grier!
“….and I got my black belt in barstools!”
sickening and depressingBrings back all the assignations I’ve lived through JFK when I came home for lunch from grade school at 10 yrs old. MLK and RFK as we drove to SLC to see my Mom’s family each summer in Utah. Harvey Milk my 11th grade in High School.
The poll has been pulledand the Secret Service is investigating both the person who originated it and those that voted yes.
Thank you, Pam.You calling this out clearly had an impact of which many of us can be proud and for which we no longer need to be mortified.
Zsuzssanna Anderson, Steven L Anderson’s wife….has a facebook pagejust saying