When 16 Year-Old Alyssa Douglas Calls For The President's Assassination on Twitter

[Cigar]

Alyssa Douglas@Alyssa_Douglas
Someone needs to assassinate Obama...like ASAP #DieYouPieceOf$#@!
September 7, 2012

I believe that this latter, pernicious world view—that cynicism borne out of a lack of compassion, or out of an abundance of xenophobia, or out of an inability to disagree intellectually without being viscerally disagreeable, or, yes, out of racism—is precisely what drives the engines of inequality and persecution and of the many other ugly virtues that get so easily labeled "human nature".

Because when a 16 year-old white girl takes to Twitter to openly call for the assassination of our President, you have got to wonder where we, as a society, have gone wrong; why we, as a society, have failed; how we, as a society, have allowed hatred to incubate within such a young, malleable mind. It is a choice that, as President Obama paralleled tonight in his invocation of our rights and responsibilities as a nation and as a society, we all shoulder the burden of making, because the consequences of that choice will shape a future of our own making.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/0...ion-on-Twitter

[keymanjim]

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[Trinnity]

I'll bet you didn't care when people were calling for the assassination of Pres Bush. <meh> She'll prolly go to jail for it. Does that help?

[Agravan]

I believe that this latter, pernicious world view—that cynicism borne out of a lack of compassion, or out of an abundance of xenophobia, or out of an inability to disagree intellectually without being viscerally disagreeable, or, yes, out of racism—is precisely what drives the engines of inequality and persecution and of the many other ugly virtues that get so easily labeled "human nature".

Because when a 16 year-old white girl takes to Twitter to openly call for the assassination of our President, you have got to wonder where we, as a society, have gone wrong; why we, as a society, have failed; how we, as a society, have allowed hatred to incubate within such a young, malleable mind. It is a choice that, as President Obama paralleled tonight in his invocation of our rights and responsibilities as a nation and as a society, we all shoulder the burden of making, because the consequences of that choice will shape a future of our own making.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/0...ion-on-Twitter

And yet, when ADULTS make movies about the assassination of a Repub president, not a sound of outrage from the left. When an ADULT makes posters depicting the decapitated head of a Repub president, you hear nothing but crickets from the left. When an ADULT makes stamps, poster and openly call for the imprsonment or murder of a Repub president, you hear silence by the same people that are currently outraged by the immature postings of a minor child.
Hypocrisy, thy name is DEMOCRAT.

[Brewskier]

I'll assume Cigar is even more upset that a Democrat delegate said that she, personally, would like to kill Mitt Romney than he is with this anonymous person on Twitter hoping someone will kill Obama.

Oh wait, I shouldn't assume that. You wanna know why? (Rhetorical)

Where's the DailyKOS article condemning the Democrat delegate, by the way?

[Cigar]

I'll bet you didn't care when people were calling for the assassination of Pres Bush. <meh> She'll prolly go to jail for it. Does that help?

That would be a Bad Bet, stay away from Vegas.

I never cheer when idiots call for killing and I certainly don't make excuses like; "they did it too" like little school children.

[Mainecoons]

Nor do you EVER start threads when it is your side doing stuff like this.

Yeah, fair and balanced.

[Cigar]

I'll assume Cigar is even more upset that a Democrat delegate said that she, personally, would like to kill Mitt Romney than he is with this anonymous person on Twitter hoping someone will kill Obama.

Oh wait, I shouldn't assume that. You wanna know why? (Rhetorical)

Where's the DailyKOS article condemning the Democrat delegate, by the way?

Mommy Mommy Mommy .... they did it toooooooooooooooooo

[Brewskier]

Mommy Mommy Mommy .... they did it toooooooooooooooooo

About as substantive of a reply as I expected. Thanks for not letting me down... same old Cigar.

[Mister D]

I'll bet you didn't care when people were calling for the assassination of Pres Bush. <meh> She'll prolly go to jail for it. Does that help?

Yeah, I didn't see too many articles bemoaning this hatred of WASPs.