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christx30

(6,241 posts)
Sun Jan 11, 2015, 09:46 PM Jan 2015

I seriously love shooting down discussions on FreeRepublic.

I have an account there, and I put out inconvenient facts that bring down discussions and pretty much end them.
Tonight, some funny ( ) person put out a satire post about Japanese people fearing a backlash after Pearl Harbor, trying to tie Charlie Hebdo to all Muslims. People were posting back and forth for a while with things like
"Don’t Blame Japanese for Pearl Harbor—It was japanese airplanes that bombed our ships! You can’t blame the whole Island full of people. FDR must send a peace committee to work out new terms and foreign aid to the Japanese Empire."
and
"America has been calling Japanese products cheap and inferior for years . . . Pearl Harbor was just a natural response to such blatant disrespect."

Is it hilarious? Is it racist? Hilaracist?

My reply to the thread was: "Well, considering between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese descent were interned in the U.S., maybe some fear of backlash was warranted."

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I seriously love shooting down discussions on FreeRepublic. (Original Post) christx30 Jan 2015 OP
Why would you do that to yourself? NuclearDem Jan 2015 #1
Because there are only so many threads on LBN and GD christx30 Jan 2015 #3
link? uhnope Jan 2015 #2
boom christx30 Jan 2015 #4
Try discussionist. bravenak Jan 2015 #5
I suspect they'll ban you before long DemocraticWing Jan 2015 #6
Looks like that happened lol christx30 Jan 2015 #8
: onecaliberal Jan 2015 #7
Don't look in that place. It's not worth it. NaturalHigh Jan 2015 #9
You probably won't have an account over there after this. JaneyVee Jan 2015 #10
Shoot away Omaha Steve Jan 2015 #11
there's a DU member who claims.. grasswire Jan 2015 #12

christx30

(6,241 posts)
3. Because there are only so many threads on LBN and GD
Sun Jan 11, 2015, 09:57 PM
Jan 2015

and I need something else to read between calls at my tech support job.
Plus I like the idea of someone saying "Yeah, well, uh, hmmm... nevermind."

DemocraticWing

(1,290 posts)
6. I suspect they'll ban you before long
Sun Jan 11, 2015, 10:36 PM
Jan 2015

Perhaps because you're from DU (which they stalk with some regularity) but more likely because they ban anybody who comes within a few miles of making sense.

grasswire

(50,130 posts)
12. there's a DU member who claims..
Mon Jan 12, 2015, 12:36 AM
Jan 2015

.....to be a 10-year troll over there. The only way a Democrat could do that would be to NOT tell them the truth about anything, but just to assimilate. Kind of weird.

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