Conservatives tweet “#MyRightWingBiracialFamily”
MSNBC did conservatives a favor when it tweeted “Maybe the rightwing will hate it, but everyone else will go awww: the adorable new #Cheerios ad w/ biracial family.” The hashtag #MyRightWingBiracialFamily, started by commentator Michelle Malkin, has had the interesting effect of inspiring countless conservatives to boldly identify themselves as “right wing.”
The news network’s unconcealed bigotry seems to have weakened the power of “right-wing extremist,” “racist,” and the panoply of other par-for-the-course smears used to silence advocates of small government. “Thank you MSNBC for exposing racism on left,” one twitter user replied. “How will you keep people in line now?”
The ad was a sequel to a similar cheerios commercial said to have generated controversy on twitter for featuring an interracial family. Yet, as John Stossel has pointed out, the media is fond of taking handfuls of racist tweets and generalizing them to large swaths of the county.
Happy Vietnamese New Year, Merry Christmas & **** MSNBC, @IanHuyett, @michellemalkin #MyRightWingBiracialFamily pic.twitter.com/yAK0DSDS5Z
— Steve (@Heidensomething) January 30, 2014
here’s #MyRightWingBiracialFamily on the top of Haleakala, thinking about Reagan probably? pic.twitter.com/V1FY8bgF9O — Meagan Hatcher-Mays (@ohmeags) January 30, 2014
#MyRightWingBiracialFamily @MSNBC thank you MSNBC for exposing racism on left. How will you keep people in line now? pic.twitter.com/L52jWHNu1N
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— Brendan Smith (@smithdds) January 30, 2014
When @msnbc sees kids like my lil girl, I guess they only see hatred. Therapy, get some. #MyRightWingBiracialFamily pic.twitter.com/2TQ3HpCdk0 — Stubbornly Me. (@lybr3) January 30, 2014
Yes @msnbc, we’re both right wingers, and damn proud of it #myrightwingbiracialfamily pic.twitter.com/Y2ZdAwwhAb
— Airborne87 (@HSAGreg) January 30, 2014
@msnbc @michellemalkin Here’s #MyRightWingBiracialFamily pic.twitter.com/qVTUVM0yrn — Harry Chaconas (@HarryChaconas) January 30, 2014
@Sgt_Bravo @TwittaChicca Here is #MyRightwingBiracialFamily @msnbc are a bunch of liberal hack idiots. pic.twitter.com/Op13k8Ik2O
— John W. Wilson (@phjwi2) January 30, 2014
@michellemalkin: my mama is Mexican and my dad is (obviously) white #MyRightWingBiracialFamily pic.twitter.com/VuokiGOmsm — Stacy Chadwell (@StacyChadwell36) January 30, 2014
.@msnbc, my biracial daughter & her biracial best friend. Both from right-wing families. #MyRightWingBiracialFamily pic.twitter.com/WB5K3RLUSA
— Stefani Buhajla (@StefaniBuhajla) January 30, 2014
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