Two officials in West Virginia have come under fire for sharing racist messages about First Lady Michelle Obama.
According to WSAZ, a message about the current first lady was shared thousands of times after it was posted on Facebook by Clay County Development Corporation Director Pamela Taylor.
“It will be refreshing to have a classy, beautiful, dignified First Lady in the White House,” Taylor wrote. “I’m tired of seeing an ape in heels.”
Clay Mayor Beverly Whaling reportedly praised Taylor’s post, writing, “Just made my day Pam.”
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For Taylor’s part, she insisted to WSAZ that she had already been reprimanded by the Clay County Development Corporation, which is funded by taxpayer money.
Taylor argued that the incident had been turned into a “hate crime against me.”
Emphasis is mine. These are the people we are dealing with. These are the people we supposedly need to be nice to, understand, and build bridges to, along with the sympathy, tea and cookies. NO. Fuck No. I’ll set fire to bridges, but I’ll be damned if I’ll make one conciliatory gesture to these evil people.
Via Raw Story. And to this continuation, we can add the following: “These f*cking monkeys would be hanging if I saw this sh*t,” * Donald Trump supporters partied in KKK garb to celebrate election.
Humans ARE apes. So in addition to whatever reprimands these individuals receive, they will also continue to see an ape in heels in the White House.
invivoMark -- don’t tell the other apes about us, they’ll be sooooo embarassed.
So Republicans want to add “assholes” to the list of protected categories in law?
FTA: Taylor argued that the incident had been turned into a “hate crime against me.”
Whaaaaaaat.
invivoMark:
Right, because white Christian bigots are fully on board with the fact humans are apes, and of course they’d make the same remark about a white woman. Yep.
I’m getting more than a bit tired of people who think they are so fucking clever when they aren’t. I’m more than a bit tired of people constantly deflecting onto anything else, so they don’t have deal with what is right in front of them.
Shiv:
Either that or “bigot”.
Feedom from even being called out for your bigotry of speech.
Doesn’t roll off the tongue nicely but it’S sure what they want.
Giliell:
Yeah, they want freedom from criticism.
Political debate has moved into “I’m rubber, you’re glue” territory.
@Caine,
I’m extremely fucking clever. I respond to stupid insults and racist comments with snark, because it’s a hell of a lot more interesting (to me, anyway) than just saying “racism is bad.” Yeah no shit these two shit-puddles are racist, but please tell me more about how I’m deflecting and not dealing with that racism.
You’ve just gone right into the failure mode of clever, which is “asshole”. You don’t get to make the call on your so-called cleverness here at Affinity. I get to make to make that call. And from where I sit, you’re just another dumbshit attempting snark and failing horribly as you flatly ignore the tide of racism which is the froth on our new fascist government. Feel free to fuck off, Cupcake. -- Caine
invivoMark
Michelle Obama was called an “Ape” because she is African American.
The kind of person who uses such insults is saying that white people are more “highly evolved” than black people.
Your comment was about correct biological classification, not racism.
Just heard on the news that the mayor had resigned and the original commenter had been put on leave.
Back in 2008, scum like them were saying, “You compared Bush to a chimp. Why can’t we compare Obama?”
johnson catman (#12) --
Too bad she wasn’t told to leave. Permanently.
Intransitive:
My thought too. Obviously, she won’t lose her job. Search strings have kept this post very high on my stats, and it’s breaking my heart, because it’s obvious some of those searching have English as a second language, and they don’t know what “ape in heels” means. I hate the thought of them coming here and finding out.
Intransitive! You need to click your user name under ‘leave a reply’, and put your blog url in your nym. Be sure to scroll all the way down and click ‘save’ or whatever it is.
Sorry, still learning the ropes. But at least I haven’t strangled myself by accident (yet).