The Most Despicable Sub-Humans On The Planet

[buff2]

God,how do these haters LIVE with themselves? :puke:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/983170/posts

[Eloriel]

1. No offense, but

I really have a problem de-humanizing ANyone. Haven't gone to read your link, and probably won't, so maybe I'd make an exception. But in general, that's the stuff genocide and other types of atrocities are made of.

Call me overly sensitive.

Eloriel

[buff2]

3. Yes

You are....I can't see how ANYONE in their right mind could call these people "human". The humans that I know are NOTHING even close to that mindset. Pathetic,that's all I can say.

[Aidoneus]

8. I'm sure they'd say exactly the same about you

"they"="evil", "we"="good", such a tedious formula no matter who uses it..

[BobTheSubgenius]

2. 'cause they don't know any better?

As sad as it is, it's far from the worst I've seen...and they live with themselves because this kind of negativity is passing beyond fashionable and entering de rigeur. That, and a lack of both intellect and anything better to do.

[buff2]

5. I agree

:hi: Welcome to DU!

[newyawker99]

21. Hi BobTheSubjenius!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[uptohere]

4. yeah boy, anyone who makes fun of cookbooks is shit !

geez, they have gotten considerably worse than that. This stuff was occasionally funny !

[buff2]

6. It's the most pathetic group I've ever seen.

They are more immature than any grade school kid.

[comsymp]

7. Yeah, a few of 'em actually were

although I got a bigger chuckle from the fact that nobody was able to piece together the photographs of a head of hair and a "pie"-- herpes, fcol? :shrug:

Fact is, as distasteful as some of the comments were I've seen things just as bad here... including references to "subhumans."

[buff2]

10. LOL!!!

People in this group sticking up for the freepers....I thought this was DU......am I in "freeperland" by any chance?

[comsymp]

11. Yeah, we're freeper infiltrators

After 2+ years my cover is blown. Damn.
Go Shrub :eyes:

[scottxyz]

16. Wrong buff2

I don't feel like sticking up for the freepers - but I do feel like criticizing you.

I hope you understand that criticizing you doesn't NECESSARILY equate with sticking up for the freepers. (If you don't then you're suffering from the same problem as Rumsfeld and Anne Coulter and FoxNews PR hack Irena Braganti and President Bush when they attempt to stifle constructive criticism by saying "You're either for us or against us.")

Yes, first of all, as Eloriel pointed out, it is rather ironic (and impolite, and a dead giveaway for an exaggerator) that you should have used the word "subhuman" in your post.

It's ironic because so similar a rhetorical ploy was used by the very freepers you're criticizing.

In psychology, what you just did is called "projection". In folksy English, it's called "the pot calling the kettle black". Do you see how you're BEING JUST LIKE THEM in a teensy little way? There is at least some similarity between someone who uses the word "white trash" and someone who uses the word "subhuman". Some might argue that the word "subhuman" is more fightin' talk than "white trash".

My advice to you: don't get down on the freepers' level! If you respond to their exaggeration with further exaggeration, what makes you think that listeners who object to their exaggeration aren't going to also object to yours?

And second of all - freepers say lots of things worse than this. Troll prophylactic: just because I said that OTHER things freepers say are worse than the page YOU cited, DOES NOT MEAN I AGREE WITH THE PAGE YOU CITED! Yeah, it's prety rude. But I've seen much worse from freepers.

When I saw the word "subhuman" in the title, I thought you'd be citing some really nasty freeper thread - like back when they laughed about the 3,000 French people who died in the heatwave this summer, just because the right-wing had decreed that that was the summer to make fun of the French. Making fun of innocent people dying - that was pretty nasty.

Calling Clinton "White Trash" - well, it's kind of mean, but not quite sub-human. As you yourself said - it's something kids in gradeschool might do. (And they're human!)

No, you most definitely are NOT in freeperland here - you are in DU. If anyone here sounds like a freeper, it's you.

Have you ever heard of the boy who cried "Wolf"? Have you ever heard of reputation systems (or "karma") in social software? Do you think anyone's going to read your post the NEXT time you rant that someone is "sub-human" or whatever extreme adjective you can come up with that time?

You may WANT to become some kind of exaggerating, extremist flame-thrower for liberalism - but you're going to find that you can't, because one of the very principles of liberalism is NOT TO DO THAT.

So if you want to feel like you're in freeperland, you're going to have to go to freeperland.

[comsymp]

17. Wow

That's what I meant to say :+

Seriously, good points, both the specifics and the general principle, as well as well written.

[MrPrax]

9. Actually it's kinda funny

and pretty light hearted compared to some of the seditious, psychotic stuff...

Come on let's face it...this pic is pretty good!!!

http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0SADKAo0WPkxosM9W9LD2P2obqnbkubEPMT64975Wdy8rILCSKMTWBtRVDpFMZOSa6L1crkqj5A8rMbB2npbvbSrKML*k4Zt273ZpV2Xfi4I8AAAApHJPAg/hillwitch.jpg?dc=4675421340423858203

[madmax]

12. My revenge

I ordered the cook book!!! :evilgrin:

[maggrwaggr]

13. gee, and I thought I was wasting my time HERE

if you're actually reading freeper posts about Bill and Hillary's cookbook, uh, I'd suggest there's probably old reruns of My Three Sons you could watch instead .....

Just a suggestion .....

[Yupster]

14. I read the post

Is that the hated Freerepublic? It seems pretty tame to me. I've seen worse here. I'd say let them have their fun.

[knight_of_the_star]

15. That's pretty tame for them

That was nothing. Anyone who saw the mud they were slinging around about the Dixie Chicks will testify that they are a pretty nasty bunch, and none too bright. I actually went so far as to raid Freeperville and put up a post challenging their poor conduct and lack of civility. Of course, it was down in 15 minutes.

[oasis]

18. They're definitely human, they just hate themselves.

[BushHasGotToGo]

19. What's so de-humanizing about not liking a cookbook?

Not to defend FR, but this de-humanizing thing sounds Nazi-ish.

[einsteins stein]

20. Well, sub-humans is a little harsh

at least if we are speaking genetics. I'm sure freepers are much more closely related to DUers than chimps, for instance.

But if you want to define "human" as a cultural qualification, then these freeps certainly rate pretty damn low on the social evolutionary scale. The worst thing is that they seem to view themselves as being very witty, but these unibrow sorts are still rehashing the same jokes they were using in 1998. It wasn't funny then, and now--its just painful, like watching really bad standup while you're still sober.

As far as criticizing buff2 for the post...well...we have no problem calling Bush a chimp. If the pretender to the Whitehouse can be referred to as a simian, then what to speak of his nasty little monkey army over on Free Republic? Its all in fun, a harmless way to blow off steam, and really - who cares if they don't think we are cultured or polite, etc?

The more we play by the rules, the more they laugh at us, insult us, and steal our elections. I don't like 'em, they suck, and thats sad.

but I'm still smiling :-)