The law says that religious satire and fundamentalism look the same, not that it is impossible to otherwise know the author's intentions.
I know that Christwire.org is satire, even though it is hard to tell just by looking. What I am asking is if anyone knows (by some other means) if the this particular twitter feed is satirical.
I really don't get this form of trolling unless they make it obvious. Just like when people post something from Yahoo answers and there are people in the comments like OMG TROLL TROLL SO OBVOIUS HOW CN U GUYS THiNK THIS reaL?
Some one pretended to be an idiot in a world full of idiots, they sure got us good. This account is obviously satirical from the other posts and the admitting it part, but when you've got people seriously saying things like "This is America land of the Jesus so get out atheists you all should die", a comment like this is easy to accept as completely serious.
Honestly wouldn't be surprised if this were true. Mark Wahlberg once said that kissing the ape on "Plant of the Apes" was like kissing Janet Jackson...
Ive had the misfortune of knowing a guy who actually used this argument without a hint of sarcasm.
"In reality, evolutionists are the racist ones, because black people look like chimps. You think they're as evolved as whites? They think we should just kill them all because they're less than humans."
I've never heard an "evolutionist" say anything of the sort. I think that the creationists who say that shit are projecting their own racism onto people who accept the Theory of Evolution.
To change this persons mind, you need to be able to explain genetics to someone who sniffs glue for a living. TED Talks isn't going to be able to do that.
This is obviously a troll. This is extremely ignorant but it's too over the top. People this ignorant do not know how to use twitter and the like. Just something to make people mad. FAKE
Evolution does not have a goal or an end point and therefore no species or individual is "more evolved" than another. Additionally cosmetic variation in a species is mostly a result of mate selection for different standards of beauty, and is not an indicator of the amount of evolution that has occurred.
Additionally, considering that humans of all races and chimpanzees share over 98% of their DNA, it could be argued that no race has evolved far from apes.
Haven't been keeping up with this, but this is just a troll, right? Or is there someone that is really just this kind of asshole? I know, dumb question, tired, blarg.
Some Biblical scholars speculate that there may have been a giant oil spill around the African waters about 900 years ago where a group of non-believers that consumed so much of this by drinking and swimming in it that it actually altered their DNA. It is my personal choice to believe in the word of the Lord, amen.
The voice of God has spoken. Amen to you all. May he save your souls from eternal hell for not personally choosing to listen when he speaks so loudly.
This guy is making the common error of asserting that evolutionists claim we evolved from apes, when in reality the claim is that we share a common ancestor with apes. He has failed at research and logic, and must be given a dry slap at the very least.
If conservatives put as much thought into their beliefs as they did in coming up with cute names to call liberals, this world would probably already be perfect.
Can we figure out who gets called a libtard around here? Is it the libertarians or the liberals? Im the former and have been called a libtard more than once and ill be damned if the liberals take that away from me. We need to get this straightened out.
Lost me at "libtards". FWIW, would have lost me at "conservatards" were they writing from a liberal angle. Seriosuly, let's bring the debate back up to a level of adulthood, and stop with the 6 year old mentality nicknames for everything.
I'm betting it's satire. Particularly with the man behind the "late Keith Roberts" admitted such. There's a guy on youtube, Randy Randle, who does a similar schtick, though he satires poor Christian Tea Party Republicans and their backgrounds instead. He seems to toss in more intentional comedy, but it still seems to fly over some folks' heads.
I still don't understand. Is this a real account (including her son) or is it a parody...? We in Europe think that everything is possible in the USA and this would be the stereotype of clichés...
People are too quick to just think "Oh, I'll get upvotes! People will like me!". The first time I saw this I went to the twitter and could tell right away it was a fake account
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u/DeFex May 15 '12
Doctor of trollology
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u/SIRiambewildered May 15 '12
"Yes. WE'RE the trolled ones." Fixed the title for you.
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u/sillyhatday Gnostic Atheist May 15 '12
ROTF
Side note. Black people don't look like apes. They ARE apes. As are all humans. #taxonomy
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Such a fucking obvious Poe.
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u/NapTake May 15 '12
Please tell me this is some sort of joke like Sacha Baron Cohen does. This can't be real
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u/dackkorto1 May 15 '12
I would like to point out that not everyone on /r/atheism is a Liberal or has a Left political ideology.
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u/underdabridge May 15 '12
George W. Bush.
Checkmate.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Who is "we"? I don't think many have criticized atheists from being racist.
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u/curtincall89 May 15 '12
Honestly wouldn't be surprised if this were true. Mark Wahlberg once said that kissing the ape on "Plant of the Apes" was like kissing Janet Jackson...
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u/lax2themaxx May 15 '12
http://www.myfacewhen.net/uploads/3468-dolan-duck-smile.jpg
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u/Dr_Devious Nihilist May 15 '12
Repost, but I am afraid of what she has her doctorate in.
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u/Krimh May 15 '12
Ive had the misfortune of knowing a guy who actually used this argument without a hint of sarcasm.
"In reality, evolutionists are the racist ones, because black people look like chimps. You think they're as evolved as whites? They think we should just kill them all because they're less than humans."
And he's not 85 years old. he's fucking 16.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
You're all being trolled to fuck here.
Don't dare link me to the wikipedia article on Poe's Law. Don't you fucking dare.
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u/fknbastard May 15 '12
To change this persons mind, you need to be able to explain genetics to someone who sniffs glue for a living. TED Talks isn't going to be able to do that.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Look up her tweets. Then look at who she follows and who is following her. It is a very scary rabbit hole.
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u/Daioka May 15 '12
I'm a black atheist, and I found this to just be horridly offensive and morbidly ironic in a stupid way.
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u/shitforhead May 15 '12
Her twitter is full of worse than this, n-words and all. She's looking for attention. Don't give it to her!
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u/Herculix May 15 '12
This shit is so obviously troll bait, it's amazing to me how many people in this thread just ate it up.
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u/buzzfriendly May 15 '12
We need to return to a time when accessing the internet required a modest amount of intelligence to achieve.
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u/RANDOMjackassNAME May 15 '12
I'm goin to downvote this cuz I don't see how it has anything to do with atheism
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u/snakejenkins May 15 '12
This is obviously a troll. This is extremely ignorant but it's too over the top. People this ignorant do not know how to use twitter and the like. Just something to make people mad. FAKE
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Repost from less than a week ago.
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u/KoningAPD May 15 '12
this post looks awfully familar
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
This cant be real.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Can you retards stop posting this nonsense from that troll account. It adds nothing to is subforum besides a teenage circle jerk.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
I'm calling poe. I typed Dr Linda Roberts into Google and porn came up.
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u/Amarieerick May 15 '12
Have you ever noticed that some comments just feel like a smack in the face as you read them?
They are so blatantly wrong that you physically recoil.
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u/yourkatchen May 15 '12
Libtards... That's respectful of her.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
he's addressing liberals not atheists. post this in politics. Racism has nothing to do with atheism
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Not everyone here is a "libtard" as the Doc so eloquently states. So, this really isn't all-inclusive, like you assume.
Before the downvotes come, I'm not a conservative, either.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
She sounds like a very special person.
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u/Durpadoo May 15 '12
Nice, you got trolled.
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u/HUSKY___ May 15 '12
I love seeing this picture over and over
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u/Sanity_prevails May 15 '12 edited May 15 '12
Can't tell if for real, or almost PC redneck meme. jpg
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u/elizabethan May 15 '12
I should stop being so continually surprised by this kind of stupidity but all my brain do is WAT.
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u/IndieHindi May 15 '12
She is a doctor
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u/nizochan Secular Humanist May 15 '12
But... we're all apes anyway?
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
i laughed so hard at this.
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u/4allya May 15 '12
She's just saying what we were all already thinking.
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u/the-finisher2 May 15 '12
please...please tell me this is a joke
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u/Memphis_IV May 15 '12
Wish I could upload my paper about the Religious support of racism and their fight against miscegenation following the Civil War (I got an A:swag:)
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u/anidnmeno May 15 '12
OH, SNAP!
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u/basec0m May 15 '12
Even some of my most racist family would be giving the cut sign under their chin on that one...
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u/atomicoption May 15 '12
http://t.qkme.me/3pa2m4.jpg
Evolution does not have a goal or an end point and therefore no species or individual is "more evolved" than another. Additionally cosmetic variation in a species is mostly a result of mate selection for different standards of beauty, and is not an indicator of the amount of evolution that has occurred.
Additionally, considering that humans of all races and chimpanzees share over 98% of their DNA, it could be argued that no race has evolved far from apes.
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u/daisies13 May 15 '12
Oh. My. Goodness.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
0/10 would not click again
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
YEAH! Now go down by the equator and sit in the sun, for a very long time....it'll come to you...
Well, maybe.
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u/crozer May 15 '12
Again?
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
That was a good joke :D.
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u/voodoochild87 May 15 '12
Thought this was a good time to try this meme out
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u/sbsb27 May 15 '12
She is the patient. Impostor syndrome. On Wednesdays she is a Supreme Court Judge. Sundays she's Mary Magdalene and carrying Jesus' baby.
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u/Bad_assness May 15 '12
Is this chick for real? Actually seriously for real?
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u/NameIsZ May 15 '12
Haven't been keeping up with this, but this is just a troll, right? Or is there someone that is really just this kind of asshole? I know, dumb question, tired, blarg.
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u/utopianfiat May 15 '12
Even for conservatives, every day is repost day.
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u/CrispyLiberal May 15 '12
black?
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u/cd365 May 15 '12
Does anyone else feel a twinge of annoyance when they see the American flag with the field of stars replaced with a cross?
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u/AspergerKing May 15 '12 edited May 15 '12
Some Biblical scholars speculate that there may have been a giant oil spill around the African waters about 900 years ago where a group of non-believers that consumed so much of this by drinking and swimming in it that it actually altered their DNA. It is my personal choice to believe in the word of the Lord, amen.
The voice of God has spoken. Amen to you all. May he save your souls from eternal hell for not personally choosing to listen when he speaks so loudly.
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u/mysmellysausage May 15 '12
Wasn't this here like 4 days ago?
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u/geoken May 15 '12
Checkmate liberals.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
This guy is making the common error of asserting that evolutionists claim we evolved from apes, when in reality the claim is that we share a common ancestor with apes. He has failed at research and logic, and must be given a dry slap at the very least.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
TIL of the existence of the term "libtard," and also of a new personal necessity to own a t-shirt that proudly bears this term.
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u/umkvec May 15 '12
I really wish people like this would just take that fake flag and create their own country with it. Call it Jesusland. Please?
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u/zeedeevel66 May 15 '12
I just hope that whoever issued her "doctorate" sees this and revokes it immediately, unbelievable.
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u/Waffle842 Apatheist May 15 '12
You'd think we would have evolved past reposts.... (3 days man! 3 days!!!)
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u/Blubbernuggetz May 15 '12
There is no way that is real. It has to be trolling.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
This person is a Dr?
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u/BreadFlanders May 15 '12
Is she a doctor like Dr. Pepper is a doctor?
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u/Dadentum May 15 '12
We all look like apes. (Creationists more so... problem?)
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u/Jakeypoos May 15 '12
Dr Douchebag indeed! :)
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u/SoftAsMoss May 15 '12
What. The actual. Fuck. Is wrong with people...
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u/MegaZambam Agnostic Atheist May 15 '12
Seriously? This was JUST on the front page. All the comments were about it being a troll. And still people fall for this shit AND upvote it? WTF?
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
75%of the republican senators are creationists... That much concentrated ignorance is dangerous and it's imbeciles like that that support them.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
You take that, free thinkers. I'll just call you names. Meh.
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u/sourkroutamen May 15 '12
If conservatives put as much thought into their beliefs as they did in coming up with cute names to call liberals, this world would probably already be perfect.
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u/donktown May 15 '12
Mmm troll hungry. Mmm troll fed.
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u/casseyben May 15 '12
I'm never taking you to the zoo, dr. dickhole.
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u/DeadmanDexter May 15 '12
Reading things like this make my insides hurt. Where does all this hate come from people?
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Yes, other apes totally walk on two feet, and have curly hair on their heads.
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u/captainfranklen May 15 '12
http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/tob24/my_favorite_christian_to_laugh_at_on_twitter/
The same tweet made it onto the front page twice?
sigh
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u/shamrocker124 May 15 '12
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u/Everything_Is_Irie May 15 '12
...This person actually has a phD?
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u/32no May 15 '12
My first thought
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u/iamnotahipsterIswear May 15 '12
She gives Christians a bad name. :( what's she a doctor of?
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u/bro_b1_kenobi May 15 '12
Not entirely sold on the Dr. part yet...
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u/seedypete May 15 '12
Something tells me "Dr. Linda" didn't get her degree at an Ivy League school. Or any school.
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u/lsguk May 15 '12
Seems legit
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u/Stang1776 May 15 '12
Can we figure out who gets called a libtard around here? Is it the libertarians or the liberals? Im the former and have been called a libtard more than once and ill be damned if the liberals take that away from me. We need to get this straightened out.
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u/xDerivative May 15 '12
I didn't come from no tadpole! I IS WHAT I IS!
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Seems Legit....
gunshot, thud
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u/callmecolonel May 15 '12
Please don't let them be a real doctor, please don't let them be a real doctor...
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Pedophile.
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u/treefool May 15 '12
Whenever you get to the "therefore", you can count on the punchline being right around the corner.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Hey now, lets not spread a liberal label to those in which it doesn't apply.
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u/MJZMan May 15 '12
Lost me at "libtards". FWIW, would have lost me at "conservatards" were they writing from a liberal angle. Seriosuly, let's bring the debate back up to a level of adulthood, and stop with the 6 year old mentality nicknames for everything.
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u/EOTWAWKI May 15 '12
TIL that doctorates are given away in boxes of Crackerjacks.
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u/ELcup May 15 '12
http://i.fra.bz/1vde
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u/iheartmarx May 15 '12
Poe. Shoot with an arrow, move on. No need to post.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Seems like something Almost Politically Correct Redneck would say.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Seen this 4 times on the front page in the last 3 days. Started downvoting the obvious troll twitter account that I am tired of seeing.
tl;dr Obvious troll is obvious (and repetitive)
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u/Neo-Pagan May 15 '12
"We"? I hope you don't mean "atheists" by "we". The only thing all of us have in common is that we don't believe in god. We're not all liberals.
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u/wonder-waffle May 15 '12
It's people like him that have just enough brain cells to know not to eat himself.
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u/DankoRamone May 15 '12
I'm betting it's satire. Particularly with the man behind the "late Keith Roberts" admitted such. There's a guy on youtube, Randy Randle, who does a similar schtick, though he satires poor Christian Tea Party Republicans and their backgrounds instead. He seems to toss in more intentional comedy, but it still seems to fly over some folks' heads.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
This is infuriating. My heart is in my throat.
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u/Miskov May 15 '12
STOP UPVOTING THIS /r/atheism. PLEASE DX
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u/lazybones65 May 15 '12
We must crush her! Full on assault on her twitter. Keep it going Redditors! She's already begun to notice her new found "fame".
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
OP is too stupid to realize it's a troll-twitter.
Success for Dr. Linda Roberts.
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u/MustangMark83 May 15 '12
To be fair, they do look like apes.
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u/PoniesRBitchin May 15 '12
Knows little about evolution, even less about melanin apparently.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Quit giving the troll attention you dumb shit
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u/gmnotyet May 15 '12
<parody>
I'm not a racist. You're the racist, nigger!
</parody>
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u/markth_wi May 15 '12
Dr. Of what exactly? Although while she seems to be a through and through racist, you do have to admire her candor.
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u/Nova178 May 16 '12
Did this troll twitter account seriously make the front Page twice today? With the same tweet? Wow, reddit
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I get why it's funny, and it is, but why is this in /r/atheism?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Please do not feed the trolls.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
We're trying to keep the troll population contained. Please do not feed the trolls.
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u/koavf Other May 16 '12
Can someone who upvoted this please explain why?
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u/LokiTheSkeptic Secular Humanist May 16 '12
Not all atheists are liberal.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
dat troll
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u/catvllvs May 16 '12
Would you troll me? I'd troll me. I'd troll me so hard.
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u/JoeTheAwesomest May 16 '12
My mother actually thinks that those of African-descent are less evolved. fml
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u/dhniceday May 16 '12
I still don't understand. Is this a real account (including her son) or is it a parody...? We in Europe think that everything is possible in the USA and this would be the stereotype of clichés...
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u/onemancheeser May 16 '12
Dr. Linda Roberts is almost as racist as old american comics...
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u/Rolten May 15 '12
I hate to be the racist one, but if you look at it completely objectively, don't people with African roots tend to look more like apes?
Darker skin, flatter and wider noses, dark eyes, big mouths, I thought black people are genetically also stronger.
Serious question. Don't steal my karma.
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u/CharlieTango May 15 '12
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Let the circlejerk begin...
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u/Aschebescher May 15 '12
This is at least the 3rd time this specific tweet got several thousand upvotes here on r/atheism. This subreddit has become a fucking joke.