The war on white people has ramped up to astronomical proportions.
If you must name an airport after a celebrity, how about Mickey Mouse he is mostly black with a pink face, they can't object.
nypost.com/2020/06/27/california-dems-demand-john-wayne-airport-be-renamed/
Orange County democrats.
That's the Draft Dodging Coward John Wayne, bud. While brave Americans were in combat for their country, John Wayne and Ronnie Reagan were lounging by the pool in Beverly Hills.
Disney you mention. It’s a crappy company to begin with, but they are changing the mascot of Splash Mtn to a black cartoon character.
Don't know why I'm engaging right-wing nut jobs, but I guess I'm in the mood today. This one isn't even a close call. Wayne doesn't get the benefit of the doubt because this was relatively recent (not 250 years ago) and his views were abhorrent even at the time he said expressed them. So you're basically coming on here to say that you support his views? Wear a white hood often? From Wayne in 1971: “I believe in white supremacy until the Blacks are educated to a point of responsibility.” There's lots of other good stuff from Wayne, but I don't think we need to go any further than that one.
MadSadWorld wrote:
The war on white people has ramped up to astronomical proportions.
If you must name an airport after a celebrity, how about Mickey Mouse he is mostly black with a pink face, they can't object. /
merica wrote:
That's the Draft Dodging Coward John Wayne, bud. While brave Americans were in combat for their country, John Wayne and Ronnie Reagan were lounging by the pool in Beverly Hills.
If you are going to be a left wing bigot, at least try to be accurate. "Reagan enlisted in the Army Enlisted Reserve and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Officers' Reserve Corps of the Cavalry on May 25, 1937. On April 18, 1942, Reagan was ordered to active duty for the first time."
I suggest they change the airport name to John Birch Airport. That way they only have to spend money to change one word of the current name.
Umm, no. "merica" is right. Reagan made propaganda films in SoCal during 42-45. So "lounging by the pool in Beverly Hills" sounds about right. But I suspect you knew that. The fact that he was excused from combat due to being near-sighted was dubious, but par for the course for the typical GOP chicken hawk. Reagan, Cheney, W. Bush, and Trump all come to mind.
trying to be very helpful wrote:
merica wrote:
That's the Draft Dodging Coward John Wayne, bud. While brave Americans were in combat for their country, John Wayne and Ronnie Reagan were lounging by the pool in Beverly Hills.
If you are going to be a left wing bigot, at least try to be accurate. "Reagan enlisted in the Army Enlisted Reserve and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Officers' Reserve Corps of the Cavalry on May 25, 1937. On April 18, 1942, Reagan was ordered to active duty for the first time."
I suggest they change the airport name to John Birch Airport. That way they only have to spend money to change one word of the current name.
Nope... wrote:
Don't know why I'm engaging right-wing nut jobs, but I guess I'm in the mood today. This one isn't even a close call. Wayne doesn't get the benefit of the doubt because this was relatively recent (not 250 years ago) and his views were abhorrent even at the time he said expressed them.
So you're basically coming on here to say that you support his views? Wear a white hood often?
From Wayne in 1971: “I believe in white supremacy until the Blacks are educated to a point of responsibility.”
There's lots of other good stuff from Wayne, but I don't think we need to go any further than that one.
No.
Wayne was married three times to Hispanic women, I suppose you could say John Wayne was in the gray area of race-mixing.
The liberals are attacking Wayne just for having been White.
John Wayne:
"With a lot of blacks, there's quite a bit of resentment along with their dissent, and possibly rightfully so. But we can't all of a sudden get down on our knees and turn everything over to the leadership of the blacks. "
He points out reality from the grave.
MadSadWorld wrote:
The war on white people has ramped up to astronomical proportions.
I’m white and I’ve never said those things.
It’s not a war on white people. It’s a war on bigots. If you’re not a bigot, you have nothing to fear. I for one don’t care about this renaming (and I grew up in Irvine.)
Micky mouse don’t wear pants around kids . Dat mouse should be in Hollywood only .
Too bad more Americans died of nuclear radiation from Nevada ground blasts including John Wayne than did in the US racist genocides of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. History is cruel with vivid examples of Poetic Justice. Very cruel.
The President of the United States just tweeted out "White Power" to the entire nation and you are whining about an airport named after a fake cowboy?
The great thing about America is that it allows all sorts of wingnuts with no actual knowledge of history to still tell the rest of us how terrible we are. Preach on all you kids who learned your American history on Instagram.
Who do they want to name it after, John Wayne Gacy?
Of course it should be renamed. Racism is dead in the United States as it should be. Enough is enough. Join us or suffer in stupidity.
Marion Michael Morrison was his real name. White racists of his generation hated Jews, Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, and murdered 100s of millions to show their loyalty to Hitler, The Queen, FDR, and Stalin. That's history. I won't pee on John Wayne's grave if I ever visit L.A. But defintely White racists should not be celebrated with statues of naming rights in this day and age.
SCC wrote:
Who do they want to name it after, John Wayne Gacy?
Please rename it John Wayne Bobbitt Airport!
Woody from Toy Story. "Woody International Airport"
Think of all the cool@ss animated figures you could have all over the airport. It would be a blast.
Aw, come on!
trying to be very helpful wrote:
merica wrote:
That's the Draft Dodging Coward John Wayne, bud. While brave Americans were in combat for their country, John Wayne and Ronnie Reagan were lounging by the pool in Beverly Hills.
If you are going to be a left wing bigot, at least try to be accurate. "Reagan enlisted in the Army Enlisted Reserve and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Officers' Reserve Corps of the Cavalry on May 25, 1937. On April 18, 1942, Reagan was ordered to active duty for the first time."
Nothing left wing about me. Ronnie Reagan spent less than zero time in combat. He spent the entire war as far from battle as is possible. He played a bomber pilot in a movie once, and would often confuse that experience with being in actual combat, which he never was. Of course, he was famous for being a liar and having dementia. The truth is, Reagan weaseled his way out of serving his country because he was selfish and scared. Although he wasn't technically a draft dodger like John Wayne, he was certainly never going to volunteer for combat. Ronald Reagan was a coward of the highest order.