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https://www.heraldsun.com/news/state/north-carolina/article215039475.htmlA 'F--- Donald Trump' yard sign sent angry man to Charlotte couple's front door
BY ANNA DOUGLAS
video at link:
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/latest-news/article215057945.html
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Tin Nguyen and his partner, Cat Bao Le, say they will continue to confront white supremacists and hatred after an unknown white man banged on their door, yelled racial slurs, threatened to call police, and argued with them about a sign in their yard that says F--- Donald Trump.
The man told Nguyen and Le, Im gonna get you, n-----.
Nguyen is a 38-year-old lawyer in Charlotte who defends people in immigration cases and whose mother and father were refugees from Vietnam in the late 1970s. Le, 37, is also Vietnamese-American and is executive director of the Southeast Asian Coalition, a youth and advocacy organization in Charlotte.
What happened to them is the latest in a string of high-profile cases where a white person is captured on cellphone video demeaning a person of color or threatening to call police.
They want to police everything that we do, Nguyen said Tuesday, speaking to reporters in front of his home.
There, the sign still stands.
The president deserves this sign. He deserves this big middle finger, Nguyen said.
He and Le also have a yard sign welcoming refugees, a Black Lives Matter sign, and a sign opposing the arrest and deportation of immigrants.
We want Charlotte to continue to resist white supremacy at all levels, Le said.
JI7
(89,240 posts)Cha
(296,848 posts)name but couldn't make out the rest. Just as long as it wasn't trump
So he's one Brainwashed MF..
Bro didn't think TN could own anything.. what kind of shite is that?
Maggiemayhem
(807 posts)and then proceeded to scream the f word several times. So R.s get to wear mustache ride ball caps and dangle bull testicles from their truck bumpers and he said it was okay to put Fuck Hillary on a sign but not Trump. There is a lot more that offends me than a four letter word, like a six year old getting sexually assaulted in a detention camp. He ran away to his truck like a big chicken. I am fighting back. Screw going high, there is too much at stake.
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)and he loses 'bigly' for this racist bullying behaviour.
We unfortunately can't change everyone into a decent intelligent human being but people like this can and should be ostracized by society IMO.
peekaloo
(22,977 posts)Nice!
Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)May I use that sometime?
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)I can't remember if it popped into my head on its own one day or if I picked it up somewhere. LoL
ADX
(1,622 posts)...I'll credit you the first five times I use it though...
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)Cha
(296,848 posts)reprisals.
Bro didn't think TN owned anything.. what kind of shit is that?
lamsmy
(155 posts)I hate Trump as much as everybody else here, but should all Americans be stooping to the level and language of the deplorables?
If you lived in that neighbourhood, would you want your kids walking past that sign? Would you want your children thinking this is an acceptable form of political discourse?
I know I wouldn't.
Liberals have been nice Long Enough. They have turned the word liberal into an epithet and were sick of it. The final straw was separating families and we are not going to be nice anymore. If you want polite, maybe reconsider that profanity use has been tolerated by IQ45 followers for 3 years.
NHDEMFORLIFE
(489 posts)Thanks for writing what I have been thinking for too many years!
Harker
(13,977 posts)but for me, though a strategically placed asterisk might have helped carry the same message in a gentler way, the real obscenity is that thing in the WH and what he does every day.
onetexan
(13,020 posts)thank you for putting it in perspective
JI7
(89,240 posts)camps and other fucked up shit is a lot worse for them to witness.
it's cases like this where a FUCK YOU is acceptable.
We need to show we are better than the tRump morans...we're supposed "go high". This isn't the way to do that.
Harker
(13,977 posts)or a bumper sticker speaks for anyone other than person who displays it.
MineralMan
(146,255 posts)Welcome to DU...
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,337 posts)Now just stop.
MFM008
(19,803 posts)Hard. They will always win and run/ruin our lives.
Yes I'll sacrifice civility.
My kid is 35, he can swear if he wants.
malaise
(268,702 posts)Last edited Sun Jul 29, 2018, 11:45 AM - Edit history (1)
than racist policies, kleptocracy and violations of constitutional norms.
Fuck Don the Con and all his enablers.
dalton99a
(81,404 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)it is the thought in your head that says it is bad
I say to people with word problems clean up your mind and get over it
blueseas
(11,575 posts)Fuck 45 to the poster above!
uponit7771
(90,302 posts)malaise
(268,702 posts)separated by the Con and his administration's racist policies and incompetence.
Fuck that.
uponit7771
(90,302 posts)Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)Fuck that puritanical bullshit.
Different Drummer
(7,603 posts)Aristus
(66,293 posts)a gentler variety of trolling...
Leith
(7,808 posts)offended your delicate sensibilities enough for three (and counting) new posters had to weigh in from your fainting couches.
Where were you when Republican convention attendees wore T-shirts with "Trump 2016 Fuck Your Feelings" plastered across their chests? Did you join DU to express your dismay at every "lock her up!" at every Trump rally? Were you aghast when tRump openly bragged about (in his own words) grabbing the pussies of his unwilling victims? How about Nazi marchers openly chanting their racism in American streets.
There are countless more examples of vile and vicious language from the Republican side, but new posters felt the need to speak up in concern for words that impressionable children hear every day.
It is gratifying to know that little DU is important enough to receive the attention.
Duppers
(28,117 posts)Thank you.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)thank you
kiri
(789 posts)By the time they learn about Santa Claus, kids have heard half the sex words.
(with meager understanding.)
Words on signs will not hurt them. Violent cops and racists will hurt them.
And what we did to the Vietnamese people...
Midwestern Democrat
(806 posts)too - obviously, I wouldn't have made racial slurs and physical threats, but I wouldn't be too polite about it either - and if another neighbor decided to remove the sign while these guys weren't home - let's just say, I wouldn't do anything to stop him and I sure wouldn't tattle on him.
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)Youre ok with fucking theft and fucking vandalism because of the fucking work fuck? What the fuck?
GoneOffShore
(17,337 posts)I would hope you would stand outside and make sure the signs stayed up.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)I would have told you to take the long jump off the short pier if I had seen you confronting anyone about a fuck trump sign. In fact, fuck trump and the ass he rode in on.
MineralMan
(146,255 posts)However, I leave individual people's political expressions up to them. As for kids seeing that word on a sign, I remember very well that I knew that word at age 6. I do not remember every being shocked or disturbed by that word.
I am not concerned that someone uses it to voice their opinion of Donald Trump. I am concerned that we have such a man living in the White House, instead.
Sometimes, resistance does, indeed, warrant the use of foul language, especially when it is resisting a foul person.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,494 posts)Stargleamer
(1,985 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,494 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,308 posts)concern. I'm also curious about your background.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,308 posts)Mine hear it every night at the supper table, sooo....
SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)stonecutter357
(12,694 posts)irisblue
(32,929 posts)What other people do is not always your business.
stopwastingmymoney
(2,041 posts)Both points
musette_sf
(10,199 posts)till then, joke 'em if they can't take a fuck.
aeromanKC
(3,322 posts)alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Look where it lead us.
I am ONE with the FUCKING High Road.
dameatball
(7,394 posts)The Trumpie is certainly an a**hole, but public displays of vulgarity are just not my thing. The first amendment gives us the right to use the language that appeals to our broader sense of propriety, in whatever manner we deem appropriate. Some senses are different than others. Tomato - tomahto
elleng
(130,732 posts)much too much of such language these days, and doesn't help at all to use it in political context.
lastlib
(23,159 posts)"with a pitchfork"?
GoneOffShore
(17,337 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)But have you seen any of the videos taken by people at trump rallies ? His language is outrageous and there are children right there. There isn't one vulgar, vile, shocking word in the English language that he hasn't used. An acquaintence of mine found a site that had taken all of his rallies and distilled them down to the bad language he spewed. I'm retired from the military and even I got an education. None of his supporters had any problems with his language, even those who had their children right there. They hung on his every foul word and applauded him for it.
So, I no longer care about the language anyone uses to speak their mind against that illegitimate usurper, because his supporters will certainly speak theirs in tones so blue the air cringes.
The civility in this nation was the first thing to go after he took office.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)and FUCK anyone that supports that fuck
Tarc
(10,472 posts)It is duly noted.
drray23
(7,616 posts)He would have been met by a shotgun and told to leave my property. These deplorable think they can intimidate liberals and that we wont fight back.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)And I'm going to guess they're not big on the First Amendment, except as it applies to them.
hexola
(4,835 posts)Eff a bunch of cell phone hillbillies!
dalton99a
(81,404 posts)nocoincidences
(2,215 posts)It's time to start kicking their butts back.
dameatball
(7,394 posts)I'll just leave it at that.
NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)There are many of us who probably wouldn't put out an F Bomb sign, even if we think or say it because it wouldn't go well with the neighborhood standards. BUT, that is never justification for some fascist goon to come to the door and make threats.
dameatball
(7,394 posts)whopis01
(3,491 posts)And was someone asking you to put up such a sign?
dameatball
(7,394 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)...they made their choice and the tRump*ist WHITE privilege police seem to have issues with it.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)dalton99a
(81,404 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)is gonna be lit.
VOX
(22,976 posts)If [the sign] said Hillary Clinton, I wouldnt give a f---, dude, the man is seen and heard saying on the video....
- - - - - - -
Not even this redneck piece-of-shit whelp will admit he voted for 45. Interesting that he pivoted to claiming Bernie Sanders as protective coloration.
As for fellow Democrats/liberals/progressives, WE ARE UNDER ATTACK, FIGHTING FOR OUR COUNTRY, OUR VERY LIVES, and profanity is a problem???? The planet is on fire with climate change, but lets watch our vocabulary??? Children have been ripped from their families and held in cages, but please be pure in speech???
Jesus Fucking Christ Almighty. These fascist assholes are a mere hiccup away from shooting Democrats, but oh please, let us be ever-so-polite as we sip tea and nibble on watercress sandwiches.
Demovictory9
(32,421 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)Just made that up, but it has a (nauseating) ring to it.
Apparently, all POC are one thing in the walnut-sized brains of these feral people.
Different Drummer
(7,603 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)Different Drummer
(7,603 posts)BSdetect
(8,995 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)You wanna look important, drive a 100K Tesla.
kimbutgar
(21,055 posts)And he got even more riled up seeing those signs.
The guy would blow his brains out if he drove around San Francisco. I see anti Twitler signs all the time in Windows.
Demovictory9
(32,421 posts)Initech
(100,040 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)he feared for his life.
dalton99a
(81,404 posts)mainer
(12,018 posts)saying "he didn't want anything to come of this." Haha, he's now scared because of the power of a cell phone video to ruin his life.
Demovictory9
(32,421 posts)DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)
.of this man. KKK types will not tolerate this kind of confrontation. They act anonymously in the dark.
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)Christ on a cracker these people are stupid. Also, making terrorist threats. On camera.
North Carolina is a Stand Your Ground state. Nguyen should have shot the man, rid the world of one more racist.