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Thtwudbeme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 05:45 PM
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OK, the College Republicans at my school have put up weird posters
all over the place.

Yellow ones with BOLD black writing that say:

"Did the Civil Rights Movement Let You Down?"

That's it...except for the College Republicans logo across the bottom.

What a bunch of freaks....they make me long for a draft. It gladdens my heart and puts a spring in my step to think of these little jackasses in uniform.
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CrazyOrangeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 05:47 PM
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1. A bold, black Sharpie is your friend . . .
:evilgrin:
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Thtwudbeme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 05:48 PM
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5. I thought about that....putting notes on them that say something to the
tune of "Why the HELL are there young republicans ON campus? Shouldn't they be in uniform?"

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CrazyOrangeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 05:53 PM
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12. That would be a good one . . .
Personally, I'd probably just mock their intelligence, their manhood, and their self-righteous, frigid girlfriends. Makes 'em froth at the mouth, and get moving-violation citations. ;)
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 09:05 PM
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32. 'I thank God for the civil rights movement'
That would be my line.
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Lost-in-FL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 05:59 PM
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16. Scratch the College Republicans and write
"Hitler Youth"
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CrazyOrangeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 06:02 PM
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20. Yeah!
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fooj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 05:48 PM
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2. Personally, I'd like to rip the flag pins off of all of their lapels!
LOL!!!!!!!!

Peace.
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 05:48 PM
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3. Who are they directing this stupid question at? What do they mean?
And if it's being directed against minorities and women, wouldn't that make them a male white supremacist group?
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Thtwudbeme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 05:49 PM
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7. See...that's what I mean. It's just bizarre
the young ones are weirder than hell; way worse than their adult counterparts.

It's a bit scary; I can't understand a thing they are even talking about.
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Hobarticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 05:50 PM
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9. Honestly, I think it's targetted squarely at white males...
And the question of how white males would be let down is awfully creepy, indeed.
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Imalittleteapot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 05:52 PM
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11. It is directed to Blacks. The message is
"Democrats have let you down", maybe?????
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reichstag911 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 06:11 PM
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23. It's directed at both:
For whites, the message clearly is that the civil rights movement has only helped the shiftless minorities.

For blacks, the message is how much better off are they than pre-civil rights? (Of course, the rights rollbacks and the disenfranchisement are the doing of the Repukes, but they won't want to mention that.)
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Hobarticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 05:48 PM
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4. No, but contraception let us down, when those turds became zygotes n/t
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ClintonTyree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 05:49 PM
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6. A thick black magic marker.........
is all you need. Cross out "Civil Rights Movement" and write "GOP" above it. Hell, they'd do that or worse to a Progressive poster. :shrug:
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 05:49 PM
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8. How fast can you write "BLAME" between "let you down" & "College Reeps"?
Edited on Mon Mar-20-06 05:50 PM by elehhhhna
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SmokingJacket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 05:51 PM
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10. Reply: Yes, it didn't go far enough! nt
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 05:59 PM
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17. And WHO quashed the movement?
You know what I mean, Vern?
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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 05:53 PM
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13. I have a poster
have any of you pathetic doughy little neocon republicans ever had a single civil rights violated?

Have any of you ever been told you can't marry the person you love? Have any of you ever been fired for your perceived sexual orientation or denied a joint mortgage on real estate? I don't even want to HEAR the word "civil rights" drop from their fleshy lips.

I know where they're going with this and it's utterly disgusting - they want to accuse democrats of still being "southern democrats", of being racists, but the NEXT poster you should put up is that the "southern democrats" all switched parties forty years ago to the republican party when they figured out that the democratic party was going to stand up for civil rights, and now under republican stewardship "civil rights" does NOT mean equal opportunity, public assistance of any kind, any form of healthcare, jobs or wage protection or anything more generous than "being allowed" to order at the same counter and eat in the same McDonalds as the white folks.

:rant:




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cantstandbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 05:53 PM
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14. I have the response: Post the "V for Vendetta" insignia all over .
When they ask what does it mean, tell them to see the movie!!
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 05:56 PM
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15. Mark Out "the Civil Rights"
Edited on Mon Mar-20-06 06:18 PM by otohara
and write in "your Bowel"
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CrazyOrangeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 06:00 PM
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18. Exactly!
Then they have to get out there and replace the damned things. Meanwhile, a bunch of pretty liberal girls are standing around mocking their moronic beliefs. (And their bad hair. What is it with Pukes and bad hair?)

;)
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 06:02 PM
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19. That is really asinine
They expect to get minority support from THIS message?

First, they're obviously white, whoever wrote this. Notice the "you" part.

Second, they're admitting a huge problem exists for minoritites, yet REPUBLICANS are in charge and have been in TOTAL control since 2000.

Third, the largest gains for minority rights have happened during DEMOCRATIC governments.

Most minorities know what the score is. These posters will send them away screaming.
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Thtwudbeme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 07:58 PM
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26. Maybe I should just write "Katrina" in big black letters on the posters
think that would mean anything to the little fuckwits?
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 08:09 PM
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27. That'll do nicely
Although the point will be lost on the Hitler Youth, um, I mean College Republicans.
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CrazyOrangeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 08:30 PM
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29. I think that is a good idea . . .
Maybe they'll think a bunch of big black college football players did it.

And go hide in their dormitories for the rest of the semester.



(Honestly, is this what these idiots do for fun? Really, really freakin' pathetic fools.)

Let me know how this goes. I used to have great fun tormenting the Reaganites when I was in school in 1980.
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Kingshakabobo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 06:03 PM
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21. You need some "Draft Republicans" bumper stickers.
Or "Operation Yellow Elephant" stickers.
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Sparkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 06:11 PM
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22. It implies: liberals& civilrights activists, FAILED to deliver, join U.S.!
The "FAILUREs" are not specified, leaving each of us to fill it in. Fill it in with ANY perceived injustice or opportunity shortfall or dissapointment life has handed us. This is only clever on the surface, and will not gain the RW any credit for the civil rights movement. We all remember who paid the price for the gains in voting rights, access to public services, freedom of association and the like.
We know who our friends are, we know who the bigots are, we know who lies and who pretends because of their hi profile jobs.


We know better, so stick up you pitiful little posters, and the rest of us will enjoy living as liberals, celebrating life with the confidence that you're isolated, pretense to living is punishment enough.


persevere
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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 06:17 PM
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24. This is how they're going to attract more minority voters???
Edited on Mon Mar-20-06 06:18 PM by GloriaSmith
My take on the sign is that they're trying to court African-Americans. The GOP had plans to push a big "minorities should vote Republican" campaign but then Hurricane Katrina hit. Images of African-Americans drowning while Daddy dearest rested on his ranch and then partied with McCain probably didn't poll well with the focus group. Perhaps they think now is the time to start their campaign. :eyes:

If I'm correct, then what a STUPID campaign! All one has to do is remind the students what part the REPUBLICAN politicians played during the Civil Rights Movement. They would be far more successful if they communicated to minorities through positive action rather than empty rhetoric or re-writing history.

In the meantime, can you tape enlistment papers to the sign? ;)

on edit: spelling check is my friend
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 06:27 PM
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25. And these precious little pukes understand Civil Rights because?
Edited on Mon Mar-20-06 06:28 PM by buddyhollysghost
:wtf:

When did these little spoiled sots become the experts on Civil Rights? I'd laugh my ass off at them and let it go. The right person is going to come along and set the little weasels straight and they won't be proclaiming any "expert" status then.

They'll be lucky if they don't get hurt. And I mean that in the nicest way.

Edited cuz I don't have but one ass.
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DemGirl7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 08:27 PM
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28. Go around and write them a little message on the posters
thats what I did, last fall when the College Republicans on my campus went around putting up posters that said "AMERICA: LOVE OR LEAVE IT" with American flags on it. I went around writing on the posters, "Hey College Republicans, If You Love It So Much Why Don't You Sign Up" I guess the message pissed them off, because a few days later none of the posters were hanging up. And I haven't seen any other rude posters hanging up since then.
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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 08:59 PM
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30. Oh, I don't think the Hitler Jugend are aiming this at minorities...
Edited on Mon Mar-20-06 09:00 PM by geniph
It's a coded message for "did them uppity women and colored folks take your job/spot in college/scholarship/other entitlement that as a white male you were automatically entitled to?"

They're after the "angry white male" who blames his own lack of success on the success of others.
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 09:03 PM
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31. It really surprises me that campus has that
Even back in the 80's went I went to GC and would go over there, they would be "radicals" handing out Leftie literarture...
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mcar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 09:07 PM
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33. College Repubs at my son's college hosted
the whacko author of "the Bell Curve" as a recent speaker to the school. Apparently the guy now has a book out touting a "solution" to the welfare state and espouses the government paying everyone, from Bill Gates to the homeless, $10,000 per year. He claims that anyone can live on that a year. He says that it gets rid of welfare and makes things equal for everyone.

I may have the facts somewhat wrong but that's his general idea.

The point here is, that my son and some of his friends went to hear the guy speak. That's the point of education, right, to learn.

He said he and his friends came away with the feeling that the guy was brilliant but completely nuts and that he earned no credibility with this talk. Some of the students really nailed him with questions that he couldn't coherently answer.

College Republicans and their idiocies aside, I have great hopes for this generation of students. :toast:
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