RNC posts racist Obama picture on Facebook

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Will the RNC apologize for racist Facebook photo?

Since Oct. 20, the Republican National Committee’s Facebook page has had a picture of President Obama with a caption reading “Miscegenation is a crime against American values”:
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As Raw Story notes, the RNC finally took the photo down today, after readers at Democratic Underground first began discussing it on Sunday. While it’s likely that the RNC “wasn’t aware the racist photo was on their page and it wasn’t produced or posted by anyone at the RNC,” the group had attacked MoveOn.org for a similar incident in 2004. As Chris Harris at Media Matters Action Network notes, when “a web user posted a self-produced web video that compared President Bush to Hitler as part of a MoveOn.org video contest, the RNC acted as if the video had been produced by MoveOn itself.” According to the National Journal:
“This is the worst and most vile form of political hate speech,” Republican National Committee spokesman Ed Gillespie proclaimed. “MoveOn.org should apologize.”
Boyd did just that, expressing “deep regret” that the ads made it through MoveOn’s filtering process, and promising to scrutinize such material in the future. Pariser emphasized that MoveOn had not produced the ads, not aired them, not endorsed them in the voting, and had removed them from the Web site –adding that the RNC had put them on its Web site to score points. Still, the damage had been done.
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Will the RNC now issue a public apology?






For those who don't know, miscegenation is basically interracial marriage.

I thought we had moved past this...didn't Stephen Colbert declare that racism was over after Obama was elected?
 
Are we sure that's the official RNC facebook group? I doubt even the RNC is dumb enough to go so far as to post an image calling for anti-miscegenation laws to be put back on the books.
 
It's their facebook group but obviously they're not the ones who posted it, just some random dude. But as noted in the article I posted above, RNC attacked MoveOn itself for some bullshit video some dumbass posted, and MoveOn apologized for it. I think RNC deserves a bit of its own medicine, especially for something like this (leaving it up for like, 6 days?)
 
obviously they won't, what is good for the goose is never for the gander. We always apologize, but to them its always a mistake or they didn't know.
 
The universal apology for something like this is, "I am sorry if anyone was offended."

In sports, the variation is "I am sorry he got hurt."
 
Back in 2004, someone could have reasonably confused something posted in the comments section as the blog's owner's own work. It was still kind of new, and not yet as widespread and mainstream as it is now.

That said, that's a bad picture, and the RNC should send out an apology and be done with it.
 
[quote name='JolietJake']Even if they didn't post it, don't they ever check the damn thing?[/QUOTE]

maybe i don't understand facebook groups - how does someone other than the group owner post an image?
 
I believe the app 'FanPhotos' allows users to post photos in a group even if they're not the owner or a mod.

I think RNC is a cool guy, eh posts racist pics of Obama and doesnt afraid of ANYTHING
 
[quote name='mykevermin']maybe i don't understand facebook groups - how does someone other than the group owner post an image?[/QUOTE]
I have no idea, i don't use it personally. Just trying to give them the benefit of the doubt in case you can.
 
Dumb question:
How is the simple act of not supporting mixed-race marriages "racist"? Which race are you claiming to be inferior?
 
Surprise! Myke comes back with a response that avoids the question altogether.

Isn't racism defined as the belief that one race is inferior to another?
I'm just not sure what "race" is being defined as inferior here...
 
It's a stupid question because nearly everyone opposed to interracial marriages are white and opposed to whites marrying other races (or just blacks).

And even for non-whites against it--it's people not supporting someone from their race marrying someone from another race. You don't see many blacks saying whites and hispanics shouldn't marry, or whites saying blacks and asians shouldn't marry etc. Though I'm sure there are some who fit that bill.

So the implied superiority/inferiority is pretty much always there--otherwise there's no reason to oppose interracial marriage.
 
[quote name='UncleBob']There's a lot of assumptions in that post.[/QUOTE]

In general terms dmaul is correct.

Bob:
How is the simple act of not supporting mixed-race marriages "racist"? Which race are you claiming to be inferior?
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The non-white partner and the resulting offspring.

Look up the one drop rule.
 
Bob, can you come up with another reason to be against mixed-race marriages?

And btw, nice job abstracting it.
 
Well in the case of the LA justice of the peace for example, he's racist because were it a white guy trying to marry a white woman, there would have been no problem.
 
I just wonder which of the American values this is against? We all know that white guys were porking black slaves (both male and female by many accounts) all of what, 150 years ago?

Blacks were treated as 5/8ths of a person not even 60 years ago. These things take time and many generations to get over. I think it's pretty staggering that we have a black guy as president this early in history, I always figured a white woman would break the rule first.
 
[quote name='JolietJake']Well in the case of the LA justice of the peace for example, he's racist because were it a white guy trying to marry a white woman, there would have been no problem.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, it's really straight forward.

If a person doesn't believe some races are inferior to others, then there's no reason to appose interracial marriages. There's no other reason to think mixing races is a bad thing.
 
Alot of blacks and hispanics are against inter-racial marriage also. Ever seen a black woman around a white woman that has a black boyfriend? Alot of black women blame all white women for taking all the good men i.e. men with jobs, all their teeth, and one baby momma.

That being said, we should be over this by now.
 
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