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Showing Original Post only (View all)Teared up at end of American Sniper: "Great fucking movie & now I really want to kill some ragheads" [View all]
Eastwood film American Sniper sets box office record while setting off flurry of racist tweets.............
TheRaganBrock, whose timeline is loaded with paeans to Kyle and who saw the film earlier, tweeted, Ngl teared up at the end of American Sniper. Great fucking movie and now I really want to kill some fucking ragheads.
Reece Filon, who has since made his tweets unavailable, wrote, America sniper made me appreciate soldiers 100x more and hate Muslims 1000000x more.
Harshnewyorker wrote, Nice to see a movie where the Arabs are portrayed for who they really are vermin scum intent on destroying us. #Deblasio #AmericanSniper
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In another tweet, since deleted, Dex Harmon wrote, American sniper makes me wanna go shoot some fuckin Arabs which was followed by artwork of three handguns.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/eastwood-film-american-sniper-sets-box-office-record-while-setting-off-flurry-of-racist-tweets/
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Teared up at end of American Sniper: "Great fucking movie & now I really want to kill some ragheads" [View all]
kpete
Jan 2015
OP
Pshaw! Maybe, like Cheney, they simply have "other prioritities" :sarcasm: - nt
KingCharlemagne
Jan 2015
#10
curious if they portrayed the real last 10 years of the 'snipers' life in the movie.
Sunlei
Jan 2015
#5
imo, I was embarrassed how our military pandered to that marksman eccentricities & made him into
Sunlei
Jan 2015
#8
So a few of the viewers will leave the theatres looking to beat down a few Arabs on the street. n/t
benz380
Jan 2015
#9
Besides the complaints about violence, the complaint was that it was anti-semitic
Renew Deal
Jan 2015
#21
No we don't, we don't even mention "Christianity." We blame mental illness or the government. nt
kelliekat44
Jan 2015
#44
from posts here this past week, I am quite confident those comments will be well-defended by
DrDan
Jan 2015
#14
So, "The American Sniper" appeals to the lowest inside us and to racists. Wow. Good going there,
BlueCaliDem
Jan 2015
#28