Anyone who's been called a freeper, check in

[Cruzan]

Some people call me a space cowboy...

[Critters2]

1. I've been called a Freeper, and a racist,

and beautiful. By different people at different times.

[Psephos]

2. Happens all the time lol

Meanwhile, my conservative and centrist friends call me a pinko.

Heh heh. If I'm getting insulted by everyone, I must be doing something right. ;-)

[SayWhatYo]

48. :D

That's always been my moto "If everyone disagrees with me, then I must be on to something"

[Trajan]

3. Once in the almost 5 years I have been here ....

I laughed and laughed ....

[pennylane100]

14. Just an anti-semetic and a racist.

However, it was once suggested that I should be on Youtube instead of DU.

[Sherman A1]

18. Yup!

I got the anti-semitic one earlier in the year when I asked a serious question during the "Unpleasantness" in the Lebanon Area

[sniffa]

4. no, but i have been caLLed a breeder

it stiLL pains me.

[originalpckelly]

5. Been called it once or twice...

pretty fucking lame when someone disagrees with you enough, and can't support their position, that they have to resort to name calling. It's like a Republican calling us terrorists.

[bicentennial_baby]

6. Me! Me!

:bounce:

and, :rofl: too :D

[jgraz]

7. At least once a week

Usually by people with whom I'm arguing from the left. Go figure...

[karlrschneider]

8. I have. It doesn't bother me. I just go outside and shoot out some street lights.

:D

[Sapphocrat]

9. What, you just want the first OP with 90,000 replies?

Who hasn't been called a freeper, or something very similar?

I was once accused of being a warmongering * supporter. No details, but trust me, it happened.

[Patchuli]

27. Never a freeper

or racist, etc. since treehuggers can't be that way. But called as an ageist, yes. I'm 51 and have been called on my outlook as "you old freaks think you're so cool and we are cooler than you" kind of thing. I would rather people younger than me just treat me on an equal footing without regard for age, for or against. I love it when kids talk to me as just a contemporary.

[xultar]

10. Freeper, anti-semite racist here.

[mike_c]

11. sooner or later we're all called freepers, disruptors, infiltrators, etc....

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[waiting for hope]

12. I have and it was here - it was like my

35th post - I was anxious to get information that the OP was asking for and didn't realize I linked to a major RW site.....it was like white on rice, did get some sympathy though. After that, I learned not to be such the eager beaver.

[Mz Pip]

13. Once someone responded

to one of my posts that I was as stupid as a freeper. Been here for 5 1/2 years and that was the only time.

I rarely post anything provocative so I was kind of surprised. :shrug:

PS, I am not stupid...

Mz Pip
:dem:

[leftofthedial]

15. According to some around here (unfriggingbelievably)

I'm a freeper
I'm a creeper
I'm the grim damned reaper
I post my threads and hit and run

I'm a troll
A rightie mole
I got no soul
If there's an asshole I'm the one

woo woo woo woo

[gollygee]

16. I was when I was new here

there tends to be a bit of distrust toward people with low post counts. Don't take it personally - it's almost a rite of passage or something.

[BuyingThyme]

17. I am a Freeper.

I've posted over 5,000 times.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

31. What Troubles Me,

is that after your constitutional thread fiasco the other day, I can't actually determine if you meant the above post as a joke or not. I'm not calling you anything or implying anything, I'm just seriously unsure if you posted that as a joke or not.

[BuyingThyme]

47. Only your kind can contradict yourselves so quickly.

(It's known as dishonesty.)

[Monkeyman]

19. Na they just put my post on the ignore list

Still here still posting

[Lost-in-FL]

20. If you can read this...

it means I am still here at DU. I bet I am also in many users "ignore" list. I have been called a Troll, Racist, Homophobe, Antisemitic and also an ignorant. I remember that someone here asked me not to EVER have kids since I would make a horrible parent. :shrug:

I might not have anything important to say or contribute to DU but I have learned a lot here. I can't leave DU, it is part of my everyday.

[mondo joe]

21. Freeper, racist, and once even child molestor.

[alcibiades_mystery]

38. One poster suggested that I was perhaps a child molester as well

Some people on DU are ridiculous. Here's my response to the child molester accusation:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2900457#2905554

[MrSlayer]

22. A great many of us have suffered that indignity.

I just laugh at the notion and carry on.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

23. Civil service -- DING

I must be a freeper :hi:

[fishnfla]

24. used to happen all the time

now people just know i am a regular asshole, i am

[Possumpoint]

25. Called freeper Here

On the conservative forums, I'm told to go back to DU. Guess I'm homeless. That's okay, I'll say what I think where ever, when ever.

[everythingsxen]

26. I've been called (in no particular order)

a freeper, a troll, a rabid vegan (that one cracked me up the most), a Nazi, a Zionist, an anti-Semite, an anti-Arab/Islamic, a neo-con, a DLC shill and.. well I think that is most of them. I lose track quite easily.

One of my all-time favorites though was in a flamewar a pair of posters rabidly attacked me and stalked me from thread to thread talking about how they had "tricked me" into "revealing" that I am not a Democrat or Leftist, but I am in fact *dramatic music* an Independent and more centrist. Spooky! The fact that I had been that since I got here two years before the posters in question found DU meant nothing to them; they were giddy in their accusations that I wasn't "really" a Democrat, despite never claiming I was. :rofl:

[BluePatriot]

28. *waves* Victim of low post count, here!

[Seeking Serenity]

42. Me, too.

Guess what, Mr. or Ms. Self-Righteous 10,000 Poster. You once had only 400 posts at one time, too.

Low-poster! Aieeeeeee!

(edited to correct punctuation.)

[northofdenali]

43. True. Those of us lucky enough to have found DU a while back

(2002 here) - should have more patience with those who are newer.

:hi: all you newbies out there! Welcome to DU! Help us rock the world!!

[Malikshah]

29. But what about

Gangster of Love?

[H2O Man]

30. "Arrogant, pompous,

obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a show-off .... I have been called all of these. Of course, I am."
--Howard Cosell

Same here.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

32. Oh Absolutely. It Gets More And More Amusing Each Time To See What Absurd Premise Deems One A

freeper that time.

Like last night, for example. I was called a freeper solely based on my dislike of Rosie. :rofl:

Each time the accusations get sillier and sillier. The scary part though is that almost every time I'm called one or inferred to be one, when logically looking at the posts themselves it always seems far more likely that the person accusing someone of such is actually a disruptor themselves. Kind of like the cheat accusing their mate of doing the cheating, sort of thing.

Lord knows at times I can be a prick (though a devastatingly intelligent, accurate, fair and logical one hehe), but the furthest thing I am is a freeper.

I'm just a Democrat who values honesty, integrity, logical deduction and rational reasoning. Unfortunately, there are some zealots that can be found here (or anywhere for that matter) that don't much appreciate those concepts, so when they are confronted with them they will lash out at the poster and call them a freeper. I'd say the overwhelming majority of the time that a LEGITIMATE DU'er is called a freeper, it is because the accuser was too much of a zealot and too stubborn to accept alternative logical opinion. It's one of the silliest return arguments some use here, and I'm not sure if they ever truly realize how silly they make themselves look by throwing around such empty accusations.

[peace13]

33. I have been and at the time I had a DU bumper sticker

on my car. It had been on there for over a year! I removed the da*mn thing after that. I hate it when the term troll is used. It is very small minded. Peace, Kim

[Raine]

34. Yes

cause I said I didn't like a public figure that is highly esteemed here in he DU. A DUer called me that disgusting name, it still smarts. I put the poster on permanent "ignore" status.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

35. Oh sure.

Not often, but when I actually have the audacity to mention that I am anti abortion but pro-choice. And when I take up for Hillary Clinton, even though my favorite candidate is Gore. Oh Lord, that's the worst. The Hillary haters really come out of the woodwork. But it doesn't bother me. I know who I am.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

36. Freeper, or something like that

a number of times.

But I've seen enough attacks here to know it's normal. And there's a hugely diverse bunch of opinions, so the place is very interesting, even with the landmines.

[alcibiades_mystery]

37. Hell, I was called a Freeper TODAY

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2965647#2966693

I have 7800+ posts and I have never once put anyone on ignore. I am called all sorts of names by all sorts of people.

[demobabe]

39. Freeper, troll, all sorts of names here

And don't forget fuckwit and shitdog! But then again, we've all been called that...

;)

[hobbit709]

40. A wiser person than me once said

"Insults are like drinks, they only affect you if you accept them"

[Seeking Serenity]

41. I've been told to go back to Freeperland.

That counts, doesn't it?

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

44. Me....

But it was by someone who calls EVERYONE a freeper because they are so far left they are off the side of the planet.

[Der Blaue Engel]

45. I once posted about my rhinestone-studded "Democrat" thong in the Lounge

and was immediately denounced by some loser as actually being a right-wing troll pretending to be a chick. (Apparently real women don't talk about their panties, I guess is the inference?) Whatevah. I was proud of my Democratic panties. :D

Then he reported that my web page (featuring a picture of me with an adult film star and a list of my published lesbian erotica) proved I was a guy. Uh-huh. Cuz lesbian erotica is notoriously written by men. :eyes:

It kind of creeped me out, and I commented that maybe I shouldn't have put the URL in my profile because I hadn't thought about hostile people like him looking at it, and he proudly shrieked, "I was RIGHT!" Ooh, boy, ya got me there; a woman would never feel uncomfortable about assholes reading her website. :crazy:

Anyway, it's been bugging me for over two years. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to vent! ;)

[Lilith Velkor]

46. Some call me the gangster of love

I've been accused of being in on 9/11. There's some nutty mfers up in here.

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

49. I'm going to lock this.

Please click on alert if you've been called a freeper.

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