Obama Racism/Muslim/Unpatriotic/Scary Black Dude Watch, #96

Sure, this billboard is totally offensive to anyone with any sense of decency or decorum, but it's free speech!


I, Melissa "Lyn" McEwan, would like to note that self-censorship is not a restriction of (nor anathema to) free speech. As I've said before, I self-censor all the time, because I don't consider refusing to use language and images that perpetuates oppression to be the equivalent of enslaving myself to the language police (whoever they are); I just consider it doing the basic work required of someone who doesn't want to be a fucking asshole. If you can't make your point without gross racist caricatures, maybe you need to consider that your point isn't worth making.

(Thanks to Shaker Azak for the heads-up.)

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