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Here Is A Simple Solution For You

If you object to drag queens reading stories to your children, don't take them to drag queen story time.  That's a much better way to handle your bigotry, as opposed to issuing threats. 

Horrific

Right-wing fascist nut job admirer of Trump kills 49 people in New Zealand because of religion.  Thanks Fox News!

Your Asshole Of The Day

This woman.

 

They are who we thought they were.

Well Isn't This Special

Racist attacks Indian man he thought was a Muslim at local restaurant.

Burgess allegedly began making racial and ethnic epithets and told Mehta that “things are different now” and “I don’t want you sitting next to me. You people.”

Burgess then used an ethnic slur commonly used against those of Middle Eastern descent. But Mehta is not of Middle Eastern descent, he is Indian.

According to the criminal complaint, the racist asswipe called Mehta a "sandnigger."

Thanks Trump supporters!  You own this.

Your Asshole Of The Day

Senator Mark Kirk.

Your Assholes Of The Day

Jesse Watters and Bill O'Reilly.

How do you think O'Reilly would react to a "humorous" man-on-the-street segment that exploits drunken, brawling, potato-eating Irishmen stereotypes?

Congresscritters Say The Darndest Things!

Let's hear from Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-N.C.)!

“The grievance in their minds — the animus, the anger — they hate white people, because white people are successful and they’re not,” Pittenger told BBC Newsnight when he was asked about what is driving heated protests in Charlotte.

What century is it again?  The 19th?  Early 20th?

 

WTAE Fires Wendy Bell

I'm rather suprised it took this long.

WTAE officials on Wednesday announced it fired television news anchor Wendy Bell, who came under fire recently for a Facebook post critics considered racist.

Hearst Television, the station's parent company, released the following statement: “WTAE has ended its relationship with anchor Wendy Bell. Wendy's recent comments on a WTAE Facebook page were inconsistent with the company's ethics and journalistic standards.”

"Considered racist?"  It was amazingly racist, a textbook display of white privledge and a shocking lack of awareness. For those who missed it, this is what she posted to Facebook last week (via VSB as the Facebook post was taken down):

You needn’t be a criminal profiler to draw a mental sketch of the killers who broke so many hearts two weeks ago Wednesday. I will tell you they live within 5 miles of Franklin Avenue and Ardmore Boulevard and have been hiding out since in a home likely much closer to that backyard patio than anyone thinks. They are young black men, likely teens or in their early 20s. They have multiple siblings from multiple fathers and their mothers work multiple jobs. These boys have been in the system before.

And then she followed with this:

But there is HOPE. And Joe and I caught a glimpse of it Saturday night. A young, African American teen hustling like nobody’s business at a restaurant we took the boys to over at the Southside Works. This child stacked heavy glass glasses 10 high and carried three teetering towers of them in one hand with plates piled high in the other. He wiped off the tables. Tended to the chairs. Got down on his hands and knees to pick up the scraps that had fallen to the floor. And he did all this with a rhythm and a step that gushed positivity. He moved like a dancer with a satisfied smile on his face. And I couldn’t take my eyes off him.

By all means, read the VSB post unpacking Bell's comments, I cannot do justice to the awesomeness of Damon Young's analysis.

Your Asshole Of The Day

Welfare rancher and Hatriot leader Cliven Bundy, who spent decades giving the finger to the Federal Government, for having the gall to request a public defender to represent him.  Luckily, he cannot be represented at taxpayer expense if he has assets to hire an attorney.

Looks like its time to sell some cattle and take out a mortgage on the ranch.

Our Post-Racial Society

So glad we exist in it!  Oh...wait.