By GottaLaff
This video is from KIDK 2 News, broadcast Nov. 11, 2008.
The full KIDK story can be read here.
Gee, now where in the world did the kiddies pick this little phrase up, hmmm?
Per the article, "In the 2004 presidential election, 93 percent of Madison County's votes went to George W. Bush or minor-party conservative candidates -- arguably the reddest result of any county in the entire country."
"Red" doesn't have to mean "bigoted". How sad that they're becoming synonymous.
The full KIDK story can be read here.
Gee, now where in the world did the kiddies pick this little phrase up, hmmm?
Matthew Whoolery told KIKD News he found out about the chanting from his second and third graders, who had no idea what the word "assassinate" meant. [...]Appalled doesn't even begin to say it. They're what, eight?
Whoolery, a psychology professor at Brigham Young University in Rexburg, is not an Obama supporter, but he was shocked that any public official would be threatened in that way. "I don't think that the majority of people in Rexburg have extreme ideas like that, but we were just surprised that it would go that far," Whoolery told KIKD.
The Madison County School District has sent out an email saying that students are to be told this sort of behavior is unacceptable. [...]
The population of Madison County is not only heavily Republican but also 97.7% white. One of Rexburg's lone Democrats, a professor at the university, told Salon that "she remembers the time when a group of classmates followed her third-grader home, shouting out 'baby-killer' all along the way. She took it up with the teacher, who didn't seem to mind."
Per the article, "In the 2004 presidential election, 93 percent of Madison County's votes went to George W. Bush or minor-party conservative candidates -- arguably the reddest result of any county in the entire country."
"Red" doesn't have to mean "bigoted". How sad that they're becoming synonymous.
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Spud Heads.
Just imagine what they're hearing around their kitchen tables, perish the thought.
Exactly. It boggles the mind. Seriously, such strong, hateful words coming out of such young, naive mouths.
Rexburg for what its worth is the home of an extension of Brigham Young University. That part of Idaho is not only extremely white it's also extremely LDS. Go figure - a church has tremendous effect on the young lives entrusted to its care. The LDS are off the hook with their hatred and seeing their indoctrination techniques play out in the national political scene is revealing. Boo ya on the boycott.
BYU-Idaho was Ricks College back in the day. My home town in WA was about 15-20% LDS, and Ricks was the college destination choice for many of the less intellectually-oriented Mormon girls in my high school. Many would openly admit that they would "go to college for a year or two" until they married. None of these girls were actually dating anyone yet, mind you.
I love Idaho (Mrs. C has family there), but some of the people scare the hell out of me. Oddly, I always thought of southern Idaho (where this took place) as the more progressive region.
Once again, the song "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught" comes to mind.
I grew up in Salt Lake City. I remember when Kennedy was shot - many of my 11-year-old LDS classmates thought it was a good thing because he was Catholic. I guess bigotry is still thriving in some communities. How sad.
Do you know why they are called rednecks? Because their KKK robes don't fit.
Historically, it's always the extreme rightwing that foments and practices assassination - the Kennedys, Lincoln, King Jr. and many others. During eight years of George Putsch's outrageous fascist regime, nobody joked about or insinuated his assassination, never mind trying to kill him.
And now, republicans are already openly talking about murdering Obama. How unsurprising.
she remembers the time when a group of classmates followed her third-grader home, shouting out 'baby-killer' all along the way. She took it up with the teacher, who didn't seem to mind.
If that happened to my kid an I took it up with the teacher, the teacher would mind. If not minding that my kid was harrassed then the teacher would most certainly mind the fact that I beat said teacher within an inch of said teacher's useless life.
I lived through such during the Jim Crow days. It is sad to see the country sliding backward into hate, and that some people are ok with that. :(
And I said this before. The ReThugs are the New KKK. And they are teaching their kids this crap.
One RACIST country we live in. Shameful.....Take the hoods off so we can see your face. Cowards! And your teaching your kids hatred!!!
Anon, when you call for the murder of our president, you get deleted.
You are one sick puppy.
GottaLaff, you probably voted for him
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When you call for the Presidency of a terrorist you are one sick puppy!!
Exactly what terrorist act has Obama done? It is rather tellimg that your posts are anonymous. Its funny to me how oftem ignorance, idiocy and cowardness seem to go hand in hand. If you believe in what your saying then own it. Unless of course you realize you are a bigot grasping on to anything to justify your unjustifiable hatred. in that case, by all means, remain anonymous.
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