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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsParade float depicting Trump executing Clinton in electric chair raises protests in Indiana
http://www.wcpo.com/news/region-indiana/dearborn-county/parade-float-depicting-trump-executing-clinton-in-electric-chair-raises-protests-in-indianaResidents in Indiana are up in arms over a parade float Saturday that depicted Donald Trump throwing the switch on Hillary Clinton in an electric chair and President Obama as a Easter Island figure with an oversized head.
A public protest started when an Aurora mom posted a photo of the float on Facebook and condemned it as sexist and racist. Most commenters agreed with her, but others defended it.
"Who thinks this is appropriate for a fair parade where children, some of them minorities and girls, are marching and playing instruments and watching? Who thinks this is something to laugh at or be proud of?" Penny Britton said on her Facebook post. "This is disgusting. This makes me embarrassed to say I live here. This is Aurora, Indiana. Congratulations."
The float was part of the Aurora Farmers Fair Parade Saturday morning in the small Ohio River town 35 miles west of Cincinnati. It's sponsored by the Aurora Lions Club, according to its website, and touted as Indiana's oldest street festival. The theme of the parade was "Celebrating the Past, Embracing the Future."
A public protest started when an Aurora mom posted a photo of the float on Facebook and condemned it as sexist and racist. Most commenters agreed with her, but others defended it.
"Who thinks this is appropriate for a fair parade where children, some of them minorities and girls, are marching and playing instruments and watching? Who thinks this is something to laugh at or be proud of?" Penny Britton said on her Facebook post. "This is disgusting. This makes me embarrassed to say I live here. This is Aurora, Indiana. Congratulations."
The float was part of the Aurora Farmers Fair Parade Saturday morning in the small Ohio River town 35 miles west of Cincinnati. It's sponsored by the Aurora Lions Club, according to its website, and touted as Indiana's oldest street festival. The theme of the parade was "Celebrating the Past, Embracing the Future."
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Parade float depicting Trump executing Clinton in electric chair raises protests in Indiana (Original Post)
KamaAina
Oct 2016
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BlueState
(642 posts)1. But I guess deplorable was too strong a word.
What depresses me is the sheer lack of civility.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)2. The GOP has merged with the Neo-Nazis.
icymist
(15,888 posts)3. Watch the video and hear the jackass who created this...
"Well, it's all in good fun" and "If you're offended by it, I'm sorry, don't come to any more parades"!
skylucy
(3,739 posts)4. The write up with the video says the man (idiot) who created the float is
apologizing. No he was not. What a piece of crap. The newscaster said he was a Democrat. Ugh.
JDC
(10,125 posts)7. Not buying he's a Dem.
Trump/Pence signs all over his "float." Was that part of the fun? I call BS.
skylucy
(3,739 posts)9. Yeah. I think you are right. I think he was trying to cover his right-wing ass.
lpbk2713
(42,753 posts)5. Benghazi
I thought that horse was beat to death long ago.
Dumbasses, every one.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)6. What's most shocking to me is that it was approved for the parade!
It's not like a group of disorganized protestors, with a small number of them burning an effigy of Trump.
The organizers approved it ahead of time!
pansypoo53219
(20,969 posts)8. if RUMP was in china, he would have gotten the guillotine already.