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JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
Sun Oct 14, 2018, 05:02 AM Oct 2018

'CENSORSHIP is to sharing opinions as LYNCHING is to justice!' Sarah Palin blasts Instagram for remo

'CENSORSHIP is to sharing opinions as LYNCHING is to justice!' Sarah Palin blasts Instagram for removing meme of her son with Down Syndrome that she used to mock liberal protesters

*Instagram removed Palin's post Friday for violating 'community guidelines'
*She had posted a picture of her son Trig crying in a meme mocking liberals
*Drew furious accusations that she was demeaning people with Down Syndrome
*Now Palin accused Instagram and parent company Facebook of liberal bias

Sarah Palin has slammed Instagram as biased against conservatives after the company removed a controversial image she posted which used her own son with Down Syndrome to mock liberal protesters.

Palin posted the meme to her Instagram page on Tuesday, and the company removed it on Friday for violating 'community guidelines' after intense outcry over the image.

The image showed heroic female warriors with the label 'What protestors [sic] think we see', contrasted with pictures of Palin's 10-year-old son Trig melting down with the label 'What we really see'.

In a new post on Friday, Palin shared the takedown notice from Instagram and excoriated the company and parent firm Facebook in a lengthy diatribe accusing them of censorship and political bias.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6273215/Sarah-Palin-blasts-Instagram-removing-meme-son-Syndrome.html

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'CENSORSHIP is to sharing opinions as LYNCHING is to justice!' Sarah Palin blasts Instagram for remo (Original Post) JonLP24 Oct 2018 OP
Sarah who? Squinch Oct 2018 #1
Exactly! ProfessorGAC Oct 2018 #4
She's just plain old stupid. madaboutharry Oct 2018 #2
Exactly! And she called herself a "Mama Bear"... Pfft! WePurrsevere Oct 2018 #5
wow, that is so fucked up towards her own kid. JI7 Oct 2018 #3
She meant it as just a kid crying, mr_liberal Oct 2018 #6
Nobody is misinterpreting her stupidity. MrsCoffee Oct 2018 #7
Most misinterpreted it. mr_liberal Oct 2018 #8
How would you feel if it was any other Down syndrome child? MrsCoffee Oct 2018 #12
I think she did a great thing mr_liberal Oct 2018 #15
I think she is a vapid, horrible human. Using a picture of your child to mock MrsCoffee Oct 2018 #16
She is mocking her own son to make a political point JonLP24 Oct 2018 #9
She's right about censorship on Twitter too and social media. mr_liberal Oct 2018 #10
She made it political JonLP24 Oct 2018 #13
She meant to mock the left, not her son. mr_liberal Oct 2018 #17
Using it as a meme online isn't normal JonLP24 Oct 2018 #18
What a disgusting pig. RandiFan1290 Oct 2018 #19
Well she got the attention she was craving. LuvNewcastle Oct 2018 #11
Hag? MrsCoffee Oct 2018 #14

madaboutharry

(40,212 posts)
2. She's just plain old stupid.
Sun Oct 14, 2018, 05:49 AM
Oct 2018

She can’t see how she violated her own child’s dignity by posting a photo of him crying and upset and using that to define democrats and liberals. She used her own child as the negative example. Sadly she is too dim to figure that out.

He is a cute boy, too bad his mom is a jerk.

WePurrsevere

(24,259 posts)
5. Exactly! And she called herself a "Mama Bear"... Pfft!
Sun Oct 14, 2018, 07:00 AM
Oct 2018

I know true "Mama Bear" types, my daughters are two of them and you can be absolutely certain they wouldn't mock or make fun of their child or any one else's child like Palin did her son. IMO it's a type of shaming which is a type of bullying and abuse.

This doesn't even address those like her who think that their 1st Amendment's Freedom of Speech right to say pretty much whatever they want to includes doing so anywhere they please. It doesn't.

And wth is it with this racist "lynching" bs? Oh that's right, Palin's just another RW racist POS.

 

mr_liberal

(1,017 posts)
6. She meant it as just a kid crying,
Sun Oct 14, 2018, 08:51 AM
Oct 2018

not that it had anything to do with down syndrome.

People misinterpreted the image.

I agree with her.

 

mr_liberal

(1,017 posts)
8. Most misinterpreted it.
Sun Oct 14, 2018, 09:10 AM
Oct 2018

Some did on purpose for political reasons because she's Republican.

I think she's wrong that Twitter did though. They just overreact to anything that seems like its discrimination.

MrsCoffee

(5,803 posts)
12. How would you feel if it was any other Down syndrome child?
Sun Oct 14, 2018, 09:38 AM
Oct 2018

It is a disgusting thing she did and Twitter was right.

MrsCoffee

(5,803 posts)
16. I think she is a vapid, horrible human. Using a picture of your child to mock
Sun Oct 14, 2018, 09:50 AM
Oct 2018

others is beyond disturbing. I hope the child never has to see that.

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
9. She is mocking her own son to make a political point
Sun Oct 14, 2018, 09:19 AM
Oct 2018

I'm glad I didn't grow up with someone like that. Her son has down syndrome which makes it even worse for what she is doing but glad she was never my parent.

 

mr_liberal

(1,017 posts)
10. She's right about censorship on Twitter too and social media.
Sun Oct 14, 2018, 09:29 AM
Oct 2018

This is not political though, except by a lot of the people complaining, it's a case of being oversensitive. I hope they put it back up.

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
13. She made it political
Sun Oct 14, 2018, 09:39 AM
Oct 2018

By mocking her son as a meme to make a point about liberals.

I don't have a problem with speaking my mind without breaking the rules and it is much easier to get a post deleted here than social media.

RandiFan1290

(6,235 posts)
19. What a disgusting pig.
Sun Oct 14, 2018, 09:05 PM
Oct 2018

Using her Down Syndrome kid to try to score political points.

These people are nauseating along with those that support them.

LuvNewcastle

(16,846 posts)
11. Well she got the attention she was craving.
Sun Oct 14, 2018, 09:36 AM
Oct 2018

That's all that hag is good for -- stirring up shit and getting negative attention. The best thing to do with someone like her is to ignore her.

MrsCoffee

(5,803 posts)
14. Hag?
Sun Oct 14, 2018, 09:40 AM
Oct 2018

Seriously?

Misogyny is ugly no matter where it comes from.

It’s okay just to say she is a vile human being.

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