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[pacificpikachu]

I was reading an article on Yahoo News about Obama winning over Clinton supporters, and I came across some gems of ignorance I had to share. Italicized a few parts for emphasis.

"She said she doesn't like Obama's name and thinks he has a questionable background. She also said she thought Obama was deceitful when he broke from his church after it hurt his campaign, and she doesn't trust him to handle the Iraq war.

"It sounds to me like a Middle Eastern type of name and whether or not he's born here in the United States, he doesn't seem like, to me, somebody who is trustworthy," Hartle said in a telephone interview. "You can't trust anybody these days, so who's to say he's not a terrorist and we just don't realize it yet?"

When asked an open-ended question about the first words that come to mind about Obama, some former Clinton supporters used words like Muslim or terrorist."

Wow, not voting for someone based off of their name? That's a new low. Gah, the ignorance of some people.

EDIT: Fixed italics.

Comments

[sammywhatammy]

Good gawd, our country is full of really shitty people. Shitty, unintelligent people. Of course, that's been the government's plan for years so they've lowered the standard of education so that we don't know any better when we're being abused and controlled, but still.

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

No kidding. It's embarrassing and disgusting some of the attitudes people hold, and how ignorant they can be. Your icon says it all.

[wao.livejournal.com]

That's just... dumbfoundingly stupid. But it is also entirely and unfortunately true (I mean these opinions aren't conjured up from nowhere, though I wish they were) and I guess people have to use blatant election tactics to speak to such bigoted people. (looks like they got Obama and Osama mixed up inside their head and actually took it seriously wth?)

And there's people like that in every country :( At least you guys get pretty open elections, when's the last time all the constituencies here have had an election? My parents have never been able to vote. Walkovers, every time.

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

I know! It's incredible how stupid people can get.

It scares me even more that these are supposedly liberal voters. I can maybe (MAYBE) see old paranoid conservatives maybe holding an attitude like that, but...liberal people? Guh. D: Okay, okay, enough of my blatant liberal bias.

This is true--and I am definitely thankful for our open elections. I just wish people could be more educated on what they're voting on instead of discriminating against people based on their name.

[wao.livejournal.com]

It feels like the terrorists really have "won" if they've managed to get people so biased and paranoid and all "ooh this is not a good safe American feeling" when they hear a vaguely Middle-Eastern/North African sounding name (and they get it wrong most of the time anyway).

I absolutely cannot stand it when people vote based on guts rather than their blinking heads because THE REST OF US have to bear with their idiotic decision when silly people like that are in the majority. (Not talking about Singapore politics of course - hardyhar har, but other cases where voting has been required...)

[fishnow.livejournal.com]

...Except for he's not....Ugh.

How retarded can a person get.

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

I know, WTF are they thinking? Like somehow Obama is SECRETLY HIDING HIS REAL HERITAGE AND PAST.

Maybe in anime. Maybe. But in real life? No wai.

[dollhouse--x.livejournal.com]

while i dont think obama is some ideal candidate for president (... well so long as we dont get another four years of bush), i'd go with the lesser evil. because oh. my. god. hilary clinton is an idiot. i can't even begin to describe how ignorant she makes herself seem (?). at least she's out of the race, because god if she became president ;n; ....

[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

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WTF.

For some reason, this kind of reminds me of a newspaper article shortly after Brokeback Mountain was released, which interviewed some people from Wyoming (since that's where the movie took place). I still remember this one woman who was quoted as saying that the movie was unrealistic because 'gay people didn't exist in the 1960s.' AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH.