As TWO’s Evan Hurst likes to point out, it is rare when wing nuts only hate one group. Most often, they have a whole slew of “others” who do not pass their purity test and are deemed inferior.
Mel Gibson offered a vivid example of such a hate — with his bigotry extending, throughout his career, to gays, Jews and most recently women.
Another poster-child for intolerance is Dr. Laura Schlessinger.
She made headlines several years ago after she called LGBT people “biological errors”. She also wrote the introduction to “ex-gay” quack therapist Richard Cohen’s kooky book, “Coming Out Straight.” These incidents led to a Internet boycott started by StopDrLaura.com, which included John Aravosis, Joel Lawson and Robin Tyler. The end result was Dr. Laura’s new television show hit the skids.
Under pressure, Dr. Laura gingerly backtracked from her bigotry, but her career never quite recovered.
Now, it turns out that she has a new target – African Americans.
In an exchange with a listener during her show on Tuesday, Dr. Schlessinger used the epithet — the so-called N-word — 11 times, arguing that there was a double standard depending on who utters the word.
“Black guys talking to each other seem to think it’s O.K.,” she said. “I don’t get it. If anybody without enough melanin says it, it’s a horrible thing. But when black people say it, it’s affectionate.”
On Wednesday, Dr. Schlessinger issued an apology on her Web site and read the apology on air.
“I was attempting to make a philosophical point, and I articulated the ‘n’ word all the way out — more than one time,” she wrote on her blog. “And that was wrong. I’ll say it again — that was wrong.”
Um, yeah, whatever. As in the case of Mel Gibson, Schlessinger’s true colors shine through time and again. Isn’t it amazing how the same people keep stepping in it?
No, Laura, it was not a “philosophical point” you were trying to make.
You were simply expressing what so many white Republicans say when they think no one is listening. It’s yet another example of “How come they can say n****r and we cain’t!” It’s rare for a wingnut to express it with such candor, because they usually like to keep it behind closed doors, often with a disclaimer about the fact that they like their neighbors who are black, because “as long as they keep up their yard, I don’t care who lives next door!” Also: “They moved here to get away from the n*****s just like we did!”
Yeeeeeeeeah. This is why Southern liberals are the true rebels. We’re willing to slam this crap, because we grew up around it.
She said the word because she wanted to. She tageted gays, calling us immoral, now her rant has made her the enemy to yet another group. She should lose her show, her sponsors, everything for this.
I heard her clip on Signorile yesterday, her voice was dripping with venom and contrary to what I’ve heard others say, the black woman to whom she was speaking on the phone did not come across (to me) as having a ‘chip on her shoulder’. Laura is too dense to realize that different minority groups *can* say and get away with words and jokes that ‘non-members’ cannot. If a gay friend says fag or faggot, it doesn’t bother me in the least; but if I hear a hetero say it, even in jest, it still annoys me.
This is like the Seinfeld episode in which Jerry was irritated because another stand-up comic he knew converted to Judaism for the sole purpose of being able to ‘tell Jewish jokes’.
BTW, Laura the quack has a doctorate in physiology, she only has some type of ‘certificate’ in family counseling and is wholly unqualified to be giving psychological advice on the radio as a ‘doctor’. I hope African-Americans drive her off the radio the same way we drove her shitty tv show off the air.
How can this woman be a “doctor” and yet be so stupid she doesn’t realize that minorities will often use slurs directed at them amongst themselves in defiance of the bigots who attack them? Blacks use the “N” word, I’ve used the “F” word when joking with friends and Quebecois wear t-shirts that read (in French, naturally!) “frogs forever and proud to be one.”
She shouldn’t lose her show because of her bigotry. She should lose her show because she is obviously unqualified to comment on “morals, values and ethics,” which is supposedly the purpose of her show.
A few years ago, Dr. Laura fervently espoused her Jewish faith and then suddenly kicked it out of her life, presumably because it didn’t meet her level of bigotry.
I don’t know how many followers she has, but the fact that she is still on the air proves there are a great many Americans that follow her gutter-level nastiness and hate. That this “pseudo-psychologist” nut-head makes money on this is beyond lunacy.
Jerry