renard_ruse
Break up Amazon
- Joined
- Aug 30, 2007
- Posts
- 16,094
Its time for President Obama to raise the level of civility in the discourse by calling on his supporters to stop using the overt slur "birther" for those fellow Americans who would simply like him to produce his birth certificate.
Making up and then repeatedly using a mean-spirited slur like "birther" to denegrate opponents is exactly the sort of incivility that should be unacceptable after the events in Tucson a few months ago. If the President doesn't want to produce his birth certificate, at the very least he can do the right thing and tell his supporters to cease using slurs like "birther" for those who feel he should.
This sort of slur is not acceptable in the mainstream dialogue. Enough is enough of this kind of tactic.
Making up and then repeatedly using a mean-spirited slur like "birther" to denegrate opponents is exactly the sort of incivility that should be unacceptable after the events in Tucson a few months ago. If the President doesn't want to produce his birth certificate, at the very least he can do the right thing and tell his supporters to cease using slurs like "birther" for those who feel he should.
This sort of slur is not acceptable in the mainstream dialogue. Enough is enough of this kind of tactic.