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ProSense

(116,464 posts)
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 08:31 PM Sep 2012

New Yorkers Plaster ‘Racist’ Stickers Over Islamophobic Subway Ads

New Yorkers Plaster ‘Racist’ Stickers Over Islamophobic Subway Ads

By Ben Armbruster

After the anti-American protests erupted in the Middle East earlier this month, Pam Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) decided to re-up its anti-Muslim ad campaign in New York’s subway system. The ad, borrowing from an Ayn Rand quote, is meant to imply that Muslims are savages.

New York City transit authorities did not want to display the ads but a federal court said refusing the ads would violate AFDI’s First Amendment rights. But now that the ads are up, New Yorkers are taking matters into their own hands, writing “RACIST” and “HATE SPEECH” over the ads in certain subway stations:



AFDI is trying to run a similar campaign in the Washington DC Metro but authorities there have so far been successful at blocking the campaign “out of a concern for public safety.” (HT: Mondoweiss)

UPDATE

Even Fox News, who has promoted Geller in the past, called her group’s ads “inflammatory” and “anti-Muslim.”

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/09/25/903431/pam-geller-new-york-ads-racist/



http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021371493


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New Yorkers Plaster ‘Racist’ Stickers Over Islamophobic Subway Ads (Original Post) ProSense Sep 2012 OP
"In Any War Between the Civilized Man and the Savage..." What a Savage Bigoted Idea! NYC_SKP Sep 2012 #1
In any war between the civilized person & Michael Savage radio show, support the civilized person.nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2012 #9
Guess whose quote that is? SPOILER ALERT: Ayn Rand. KamaAina Sep 2012 #16
. n/t porphyrian Sep 2012 #2
Good for them .... etherealtruth Sep 2012 #3
Recommend to the high heavens! And I LOVE NY Also!!! nt babylonsister Sep 2012 #4
I passed by one the other day in the subway, and there was a crowd around it. Most thought it... hrmjustin Sep 2012 #5
Pamela Geller is a fucking nutjob sharp_stick Sep 2012 #6
I had a feeling this would happen. Indpndnt Sep 2012 #7
And maybe trying to protect themselves. randome Sep 2012 #19
That's her baby...let her take care of it. I heard its comin to Chicago too. jonesgirl Sep 2012 #8
Evolution of a racist ad: Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2012 #10
Exercising their free speech also. She is the hero of the Norwegian Mass Murderer sabrina 1 Sep 2012 #11
Even bigoted A**H**** have free speech rights. iandhr Sep 2012 #12
good for them Douglas Carpenter Sep 2012 #13
Yeah people of New York! I was worried about those signs going up, afraid someone might be killed. robinlynne Sep 2012 #14
A few days ago, I said that the ads should be displayed. . . DinahMoeHum Sep 2012 #15
Called it: NYC Liberal Sep 2012 #17
Yes, This Ad Was Put Up by Wealthy and Powerful Organizations Who Foment Islamophobia School Teacher Sep 2012 #18
 

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
1. "In Any War Between the Civilized Man and the Savage..." What a Savage Bigoted Idea!
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 08:37 PM
Sep 2012

Wow, hypocrisy just reached a new level.

 

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)
5. I passed by one the other day in the subway, and there was a crowd around it. Most thought it...
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 08:49 PM
Sep 2012

... was dumb. I think it is stupid, and dangerous to NYers. This is just picking a fight, and I am worry that we here in NY have to suffer the brunt of terrorism. I give it a few days before someone destroys the ad.

sharp_stick

(14,400 posts)
6. Pamela Geller is a fucking nutjob
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 09:17 PM
Sep 2012

in the mold of Jerome Corsi she's right out on the bleeding edge of republican fuckery.

Indpndnt

(2,391 posts)
7. I had a feeling this would happen.
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 09:41 PM
Sep 2012

And those signs would be dealt with by New Yorkers. Hey, they're expressing their opinion.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
19. And maybe trying to protect themselves.
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 11:46 PM
Sep 2012

Anyone wants to put up racist posters, let them put them up in front of their own homes.

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
11. Exercising their free speech also. She is the hero of the Norwegian Mass Murderer
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 10:07 PM
Sep 2012

Those revelations shut her up for a while, but whoever pays her, must have called again.

I think someone should be digging up who is behind the Think Tanks who fund this hatred.

Looks like some powerful people are desperately trying to start another in the ME.

She is just a hateful tool who is being used. An investigation into where the money comes from, (they had over $40,000,000 to conduct their last hate filled campaign against Muslims, where did it come from?)

Good for NY. I think it would be a public service to rip all of their posters to shreds.

robinlynne

(15,481 posts)
14. Yeah people of New York! I was worried about those signs going up, afraid someone might be killed.
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 10:45 PM
Sep 2012

I LOVE that the public came up with this response!!!

DinahMoeHum

(21,809 posts)
15. A few days ago, I said that the ads should be displayed. . .
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 11:11 PM
Sep 2012

so that "artists" could have a go at them, just like they did in San Francisco:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=239530

The decision to leave them stand is paying off!!

 

School Teacher

(71 posts)
18. Yes, This Ad Was Put Up by Wealthy and Powerful Organizations Who Foment Islamophobia
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 11:33 PM
Sep 2012

Yes. There are wealthy "Think Tanks" like The Clarion Fund and many others that foment lies and hate about Islam and Arabs.
It is important that everyone here reads the July 2 issue of The Nation Magazine at thenation.com. It names names and who funds all this hateful garbage. It is shocking how much they have influenced public opinion in the US.

Hate speech has consequences, my friends. I took a human rights tour of Kigali Rwanda and learned that he massacres were fomented
by hate radio. Hate speech like that described in The Nation has no place in my America.

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