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Spin Zone / Re: Kathy Griffin Under Fire for Bloody Decapitated Trump Image
« on: June 01, 2017, 09:13:00 PM »I recall seeing Obama hung in effigy a while back and I was just as outraged. I hated Obama and am thrilled he's out of the White House, but people who do that sort of thing are suggesting violent insurrection. It's encouraging people to have thoughts about assassination of a sitting President and THAT is sedition. I don't tolerate it from anyone toward any President. It's got nothing to do with "snowflake feelings". What she did is extremely hostile and promoting hate, very lamely disguised as "comedy". It's atrocious, just like anyone suggesting we hang Obama was atrocious. But the anti-Obama sentiment NEVER reached the levels we're seeing out of the left today toward Trump and anyone supporting him. The liberal left is a runaway train of hatred unlike anything I've ever seen in my life, and I saw the KKK burning crosses in the 1960s.
I recall plenty of people talking about how they hoped Obama would get assassinated, or similar. The numerous effigies of Obama being hanged or burned. Comedians making coarse jokes about him. I wasn't offended by it, but I found much of it to be over the line and in poor taste. The same goes for Kathy Griffin's latest gaffe. People are free to say what they want, it's sort of a part of our national rights. It doesn't protect them from being dealt with by their employers, which is exactly what happened in this case.
I'm not personally offended if someone wants to portray the killing of Obama, Clinton, Trump, etc., but they have the right to do so at their own peril. I surely won't be getting upset about a photo shoot for a D-list comedian.
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