Poor Taste and Intolerance

Over on Facebook, there are a couple of fan pages or groups that are praying for the death of Obama. Even though I don't like the guy for his politics, his lying, or his ignorance, I can't really pray for something like that. It's just so tacky; it's in poor taste. It's something an ex-girlfriend would do to me; it's a real bitch move.

So while that's just a bunch of 8 year-olds acting out their playground inadequacies, there is another group petitioning facebook to get this poor taste group censored. They are trying to get this prayer labeled as hate speech. I didn't see any derogatory language, and to try to stir up emotions by using the race card (again) is disingenuous.

Wow!

I don't know know whose worse, the group that's prays for someone's death or the group that is intolerant. For Pete's sake, just ignore them. Let's reverse the tables and go back to 2004. Remember when Bush was calling the people that questioned the Iraq war, un-patriotic in order to get them to stop their complaints? Very similar, no?

A majority of people dislike supremacist groups (Black panthers, KKK, VANK, etc), but their right to free speech should not be abridged. If someone dislikes the message they should ignore it or counter it with their own statements, not use force (albeit soft force) to censor another person or group. That's weak and intolerant, and quite frankly, un-American. We're better than that, but we must have forgotten.