slopfront
Reddit, read-only. No JavaScript. No cookies. No tracking.
preferences

A great day for racism! The_Donald upvotes two threads smearing Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. Comments are full of racism and hate.

487 points · submitted Jul 2016 by u/[deleted] · High-quality

Today /r/the_Donald upvoted two threads smearing Philando Castile and Alton Sterling by making false/unproven claims about the two shooting/murder victims:

Thread #1: A picture supposedly showing Sterling and two children holding guns [currently at +1736]

Here's a link to a Snopes.com article about the picture.

Claim status: Unproven

On 7 July 2016, a photograph purportedly showing Alton Sterling and two of his children holding guns was posted to the "White Rights" section of Reddit. There is no evidence, however, that the man pictured in this image is the same man who was shot and killed by police officers in Baton Rouge.

Snopes.com has a bit more information about the history of the picture (it's been around since 2010), but the excerpt above is basically the most important part.

Thread #2: Philando Castle was an Armed Robbery Suspect [currently at +1152]

Here's a link to a Snopes.com article about this claim.

Claim status: Mostly False

WHAT'S TRUE: Police who pulled over and killed Philando Castile reported they thought he might have resembled a suspect in an armed robbery case.

WHAT'S FALSE: Philando Castile was not "wanted" on an armed robbery charge or a "suspect" in such a case at the time he was killed.

The article posted on the_Donald is actually the article which started this bullshit rumor. It was published by a pro-Trump, far right website called Conservative Treehouse. The article contains a few other lies and outrageous claims about Philando Castile. They even provide 'proof' (= made up bullshit).

The Snopes.com article has a whole section dedicated to those claims and the bullshit proof provided by Conservative Treehouse. It's really scary how these racist websites try to change the truth and alter facts.

Fuck the_Donald mods for allowing this crap to be posted on their sub.

The comment sections of both threads are once again proof for the_Donald's racism and hatred.

They're willing to believe every bullshit as long as it fits their racist and bigoted worldview and agenda.

A great day for racism! The_Donald upvotes two threads smearing Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. Comments are full of racism and hate.

48 comments · 88% upvoted · other discussions

comments

[deleted] 63 points · Jul 2016

[deleted]

ilovekingbarrett 15 points · Jul 2016

if you're surprised, you haven't been paying attention

[deleted] 12 points · Jul 2016

My favorite:

Why are people fundraising to send his kids to college? They're going to end up in jail.

ColeYote 116 points · Jul 2016

Even if that first picture were legit, since when do Republicans think owning guns makes you a bad person?

Since black people started doing it, obviously

Hot_Wheels_guy 19 points · Jul 2016 · I voted!

White father with his two kids holding guns? Good parent teaching his children about the importance of the 2nd amendment.

Black father with his two kids holding guns? Terrible baby-daddy raising thugs destined to be drug-dealing gang members.

#JustTheDonaldThings

ThinkMinty 7 points · Jul 2016

Isn't dealing drugs just capitalism without the state? /s

Minn-ee-sottaa 33 points · Jul 2016

They did the same thing when the Black Panthers were legally holding the police accountable. Reagan cracked down on open carrying in response when he was California governor.

Isentrope 14 points · Jul 2016

This is apparently why they think the sniping was a false flag. If there's one way to get Republicans to support gun control, it's when black people are the ones doing the shooting.

Wilwheatonfan87 19 points · Jul 2016

NRA was for gun control when the Black Panthers started to arm themselves in the 60s. Black Panthers and Malcolm X are attributed to being the forefathers of modern-day gun rights.

http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2013/01/black_panthers_and_gun_control_the_nras_flip_flop/

marisam7 24 points · Jul 2016

Sticky this.

dustinyo_ 22 points · Jul 2016

But they're totally not racist, just ask them.

[deleted] 17 points · Jul 2016

You would probably be called a racist for bringing up race.

[deleted] 36 points · Jul 2016

Do reddit admins not care that they're giving this hate speech a platform? Like,they purged the vileness a year or so ago, yet publichealthwatch, blackcrimematters, and thefuhrer are allowed to represent the site? What the fuck? I guess it'll take reddit losing ad revenue or seriously negative publicity before they pull their thumbs out of their ass.

[deleted] 21 points · Jul 2016

They can't delete it because Donald is sadly still in the presidential running. It would cause a Huge up roar if Reddit just nuked a sub dedicated to a presidential Candidate, but I'm sure as soon as trump loses it's gonna be deleted.

[deleted] -16 points · Jul 2016

[deleted]

rileyk 16 points · Jul 2016

Be better than the Trump people. Don't just spout memes.

Lyun 6 points · Jul 2016

I mean still spout memes, just don't only spout memes

ThinkMinty 2 points · Jul 2016

Or at least good memes. Top shelf memes.

Lyun 2 points · Jul 2016

we know memes, we have the best memes

shakypears 4 points · Jul 2016 · loyalty for me, none for thee

I guess it'll take reddit losing ad revenue or seriously negative publicity before they pull their thumbs out of their ass.

That's how this site has always worked.

ilovekingbarrett 7 points · Jul 2016

everyone still remembers the time that spez called hate speech "valuable discussion", right? it's the naive view you get with a lot of more tech-y teenage boys on here and kind of a side effect of being a liberal who grows up watching standard kids media - this idea that "it can all be worked out if we talk to each other properly." net fascists and channers don't want to talk to us properly and they never have, but reddit sucks. it's a bad website.

ThinkMinty 6 points · Jul 2016

No platform for fascists.

Charcoal_Eyes 17 points · Jul 2016

This will change nothing even if it is completely accurate. Once animals go wild with blood lust, death follows. First their blood lust drives them to kill and then only by killing them will their savagery stop. It's animal behavior 101. Facts and logic only matter to the sane and reasonable.

Holy shit are these people real?

Lyun 14 points · Jul 2016

Dude, they said they use FACTS and LOGIC and are therefore correct you dumb libcuck

Never mind that saying you're using facts and logic and actually using facts and logic are vastly different things, pointing that out just makes you dumber and libcuckier

AnimatronicJesus 8 points · Jul 2016

But remember, when 10 white kids shoot up their schools every month it's just business as usual. MAGA

ostrich_semen 15 points · Jul 2016

black person gets shot for doing nothing

QUICK PHOTOSHOP A RAP SHEET

white person rapes someone

What were his swim times?

BC-clette 8 points · Jul 2016

The best part is that no Trump supporter can tell you why these stories are relevant to the election i.e. why they appear on t_d in the first place. If it's a story of national concern requiring presidential action, what actions would Trump take that Obama hasn't? How would he do better as the candidate with less than 1% support from black people?

Hot_Wheels_guy 6 points · Jul 2016 · I voted!

Look at Sterling's criminal record too. The media portrays him as some fucking saint. I feel like I'm living in fucking backwards land

"Society isn't racist, but I am! What has this world come to?! Everything is backwards! Make america great again, Trump!"

[deleted] 8 points · Jul 2016

Someone should start keeping stats, by bot perhaps (if possible), on common white supremacist talking points on r/The_Donald.

table_fireplace 13 points · Jul 2016

I don't think there's a bot that can handle numbers that large.

abacuz4 2 points · Jul 2016

I was going to say! It would be far far easier to keep tract of posts that weren't white supremacist talking points.

[deleted] 3 points · Jul 2016

Ive been seeing "WE WUZ KANGS" a lot lately. I've seen it at least 3 times today alone, and I'm talking about /r/politics here...

Wilwheatonfan87 2 points · Jul 2016

Battlefield 1 subreddit in response to Harlem Hellfighters pack there was a comment saying "WE WUZ SHELLSHOCKED N SHIT"

ThinkMinty 2 points · Jul 2016

What's "We wuz kangs" about?

TheDeadManWalks 0 points · Jul 2016

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure it comes from black people who claim to have Egyptian ancestry, essentially that they're descended from pharaohs. The alt-right likes to pretend that only white people have ever had empires or great civilizations so they make fun of it.

marisam7 8 points · Jul 2016

It's more about the fact that Africa had many large kingdoms and countries and empires that at the time rivaled the organizational skills and size of European feudalism. Such as The Kingdom of Ghana, Mali Empire, the Songhai Empire, the Ethiopian Empire, the Mossi Kingdoms, the Benin Empire, ect.. Yet despite them being international powers they are completely forgotten about today and not taught in history.

No one has even heard of great castles and cities such as Great Zimbabwe or the Great Mosque of Djenné or other massive historical achievements Africans did and the stereotype is that they were living in mud huts with spears.

Many modern African Americans and historians have been trying to educate the public about this and other aspects of African History and in response Racists have been mocking them with phrases like, "Haha, Suuuuuure you wuz kings."

PM_ME_A_FACT 4 points · Jul 2016

It amazes me how little people know about these civilizations. People don't even realize Timbuktu was an actual place, a very well known worldwide scholarly place and vibrant trading city. I don't think I realized it at the time but Jesus am I'm thankful for the teachers I had. From 6th grade on, I can remember studying all these civilizations as in depth as any other civilization.

TheDeadManWalks 3 points · Jul 2016

Thank you for the elaboration. I'd only heard the phrase used in connection with Egypt before, not Africa in general, but that makes sense. The lack of African History is an understated part of the problem. The closest I ever got to that in school was an optional module on the Civil Rights movement, the ancient history was mostly relegated to Greece, Rome, and Britain.

[deleted] 5 points · Jul 2016

There was more wealth in parts Africa for a long time than in much of Europe. This was and is due to Africa being a network of trading communities (commodities and gold flowed in and out, from the eastern part of the continent north, over the Sahara and then around to Egypt and the Middle East and other places). The kingdom of Mali, for instance, was richer than any kingdom in Europe at its height in the 13th-14th century.

(It's worth noting that history is LOOOOONG. Yeah, African dynasties had their heyday long ago, but they lasted a while, too. The Kingdom of Mali, for instance, lasted about 300 years).

Anyway, Mansa Musa, a rather well-known Mali king who was Muslim, was so rich, it is said, that when he went on his hajj (the trip to the tomb of the Prophet) he took so much gold and spend so much gold that the price of gold lost value globally because he flooded the market from Mali to Iran.

This is one of the reasons why Europeans wanted to (and did) colonize Africa in the 19th century--all the wealth.

ThinkMinty 2 points · Jul 2016

Ah. I thought it was the alt-right thinking they were descended from Kang the Conqueror.

TheDeadManWalks 1 points · Jul 2016

Don't be ridiculous, Kang the Conqueror would have actually achieved something by now. Although I would like to see young Donald Trump travelling through time just to avoid becoming present Donald Trump.

ThinkMinty 1 points · Jul 2016

That could be an interesting movie.

[deleted] 7 points · Jul 2016

$10 says the_demagogue sees nothing wrong with this

SnapshillBot 4 points · Jul 2016

Snapshots:

  1. This Post - 1, 2, 3

  2. /r/the_Donald - 1, 2, 3

  3. <strong>Thread #1: A picture supposedly showing Sterling and two children holding guns</strong> - 1, 2, 3

  4. Here's a link to a Snopes.com artic... - 1, 2, 3

  5. Thread #2: Philando Castle was an A... - 1, 2, 3

  6. Here's a link to a Snopes.com artic... - 1, 2, 3

I am a bot. (Info / Contact)

Gishin 3 points · Jul 2016

Do we have any evidence he was complying with the officer's orders except for his GF right next to him who isn't anywhere near a reliable source?

Do we have any evidence he wasn't complying except for the cop who could be a murderer and isn't anywhere near a reliable source?

marisam7 2 points · Jul 2016

We would have the body cam footage and that would show definitively what happened if it wasn't "accidentally erased"

Damie904 2 points · Jul 2016

Is hate speech still protected on Reddit?

jcsatan 1 points · Jul 2016 · Oppressed White Male

That picture looks nothing like Sterling.

Kjmcgee 1 points · Jul 2016

To be fair, it totally does look like him and the boy in the picture really looks like his son that was crying at the press conference. It could be him. BUT that caption is clearly photoshopped and bullshit.

mariocavolo 1 points · Jul 2016

Hi, I'm not an active member of any of these above or below or whatever, I just clicked on a link and landed here. Please explain, so Philando Castile didn't have a prior bad record or anything? Its all bullshit?...wow...any links/proof...thanks...gotta get the facts straight...