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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 11:15 AM
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Freeptopia explodes in racism over mistranslation
The ignorant freepazoid captions the photo:

"Barrio Yes, Yankees No!.....one has to wonder why they came here is they are so unenamoured with Gringos(?).COMING TO A CITY NEAR YOU, IT WILL SPREAD IF OUR SPINELESS LEADERS GIVE AMNESTY. BANK ON IT"

http://photos1.blogger.com.nyud.net:8090/hello/145/1296/400/varrio.jpg

TBogg educates with a passage from the Chicano Park Murals site:

After a two-year period of little activity in Chicano Park, Barrio Logan residents once again banded together to better their community. Their goal was to have the neighborhood rezoned to remove the forty-eight Anglo-owned auto junkyards. At one point, "a stack of crushed cars" had fallen over into the backyard of one of the residents.

Varrio Si, Yonkes No! (Fig. 48) was based upon a flyer for a community meeting to discuss the problem of the junkyards. A community team designed and painted the mural, supervised by Victor Ochoa, "then employed at the Chicano Federation building in the park as a recreation counselor for cultural events." Varrio is a variation of barrio, neighborhood; and yonkes refers to junkyards. Thus, Neighborhood Yes, Junkyards No! Imagery within the mural depicts the Coronado Bay Bridge and National Steel. In the foreground, residents protest with their placards, Mas Casas, Menos Yonkes, More Houses, Less Junkyards, and La Unidrad Es La Fuerza, Unity is Strength. "Barrio Logan was rezoned. Junkyards began to move away."


The freepanzi has some other revealing captions-

"la tiera mia”…my land (not your’s)"

You know, like the song...."This land is my land, this land's not your land" :eyes:

"Hey…poco Ingles…que milagro!"

That captions a photo of a woman wearing a shirt that says "Brown and Proud".
Another woman gets oogled from a safe distance, surrounded as she is by men who could conceivably be surrounded by US military-

"Some of these Reconquista chicks do have nice hair..to be fair"

Oh, more than fair! :crazy:

Then, above a shot of some men talking there's this:

"Brown Beret sage dishing out some vato wisdom...and dental advice"

To clear things up for those who may not want to peek into the pit, he wasn't talking about this guy-

http://www.sfist.com.nyud.net:8090/archives/images/55_cheney-thumb.jpg

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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 11:19 AM
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1. Greatest cultural rift since we tried to sell them the Chevy Nova("No-Go")
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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 11:21 AM
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4. TBogg says Malkin's running with it
I can live without reading her, so I don't know if she picked up on this aspect.

Nova was a PR nightmare. Very funny :)
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 11:23 AM
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5. Figures
Michelle Malkin is a liar anyway. She knows she spews misinformation in service of the yuppie fascits regime.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 12:04 PM
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9. I wonder how much she would have enjoyed the
US 1942+ concentration camps . . . since she calls them okay at this time . . . do ya think that anybody at the time would have cared that she was not Japanese as she was being raped and robbed?
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 12:11 PM
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10. She wrote a whole book on that
Yes, she said that interning Japanese Americans was right thing to do. She presented a completely fallacious argument based on anecdotal evidence about one case to justify the entire thing.
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 11:19 AM
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2. The word they thought they read is Yanquis
As in Yanqui go home.

Well, I understand. Freepers are barely literate in English. We shouldn't expect them be able to read Spanish.

What a bunch of dumb gringos.



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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 12:23 PM
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12. They're the types who would go over to Europe and wonder
why so few people speak English (even those in London) . . .
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 11:21 AM
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3. Ignorance among the freepers should come as no surprise...
Edited on Tue Apr-25-06 11:22 AM by BrklynLiberal
It is a prerequisite.
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William769 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 11:30 AM
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6. ...
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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pagam Donating Member (294 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 11:37 AM
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7. No suprise here!
These freepers just can't take the time to get the facts! they sound like 8th graders goofing on others.
as for la malkin, when is she going to rant on the fact the falung gong reporter who heckled mr hu during his "official" visit with bushito has been charged with a federal offense of intimidating a visitng head of state ?
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 11:49 AM
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8. Some of them are making good points, though...
Edited on Tue Apr-25-06 11:50 AM by MercutioATC
"To: Uncle Hal

Folks need to wake up. This ain't the Pilgrims.

5 posted on 04/23/2006 4:40:13 PM PDT by wardaddy ("I believe it is peace for our time... go home and get a nice quiet sleep")
< Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies >"




He's right.

The Pilgrims killed the indigenous population...

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KingFlorez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 12:13 PM
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11. I wish they'd show more of their racism
People need to know what kind of people Freepers really are
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