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“You reap what you sow. You can find ample evidence to support “FR is a hate site” on any immigration thread you care to mention...”

Good point. Comparing Bush to Hitler is verboten but this site is ate up with references to “Hitlery” and other such 3rd grade nonsense. May Freepers are oblivious to how similar their posts are to posts at DU and KOS.

This isn’t a hate-site but there are some seriously hateful people who post here regularly.

Jim, please see the last paragraph of this post... (o:

I would agree with you regarding the “Hitlery” comments, even if the moniker does fit her much better than accusing Bush of the same... We just don’t need to do that. She herself has provided ample ammunition that should be able to render her impotent if we just stuck to the FACTS and TRUTH about her!

Unfortunately, our whole WORLD-WIDE activist/political system is bent on coming up with the newest, slickest, slogan and I think we are going to be stuck with this kind of commentary as our world is so fast-paced... no thanks to the MSM who has made an idol out of the “sound-bite” philosophy. It has truly contributed to the dumbing down of our populace, and in turn, the threats we are seeing against our Republic!

I don’t know how to turn it around other than criticizing those among us who use these tactics regularly (aka the “self-policing” option). I don’t think we can fix the MSM, but at least when these charges are leveled against a particular post we could then, in turn, defend ourselves by pointing out all the posts that follow... That’s the only real-world solution I see to this problem right now... (I regularly did this in regards to the Amnesty/Immigration threads.

I myself, called people on their racist-leaning posts even when I agreed with their ultimate view on the bill itself... AND, almost all of those I saw posting these things were NOT long-time Freepers, and were I suspect agitators, and operatives. Some haven’t been back since the bill went down in flames, either...)

I for one, will start doing this more often, even at the risk of rubbing the people the wrong way — I just bought a new Flame-Suit so I think I’ll be OK! ROFL!!! (o:

And, I will also offer myself as a volunteer mod for a few hours per week if there is need for more of them! I think they do an incredible job as it is now though -- whomever they are! LOL