With her Stannis Baratheon act, apparently Ingraham now wants to appeal to grammar Nazis as well as the regular kind. And like Stannis, she picked the wrong fight.
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I know. Still, the article is interesting for laying out all their code words and social networks and showing just how far virulent Nazis have burrowed into the mainstream. HBOâs âSuccessionâ is dark satire, but the Nazi-enthusiast anchor at the showâs Fox News stand-in is pretty close to reality.
From the AV Club recap:
Mark Ravenhead (Zack Robidas), a hotshot ATN anchor who skews younger but has an alarming history that includes sightings at fascist rallies and a marriage conducted at Hitlerâs old Bavarian retreat, not to mention a dog with the same name as the fĂźhrerâs (itâs spelled differently, though, so itâs okay). [âŚ] Tom (Matthew Macfadyen), who thinks Mark is a lovely guyââWho wasnât a bit salty when they were 21?ââis tasked with giving Ravenhead âthe full colonoscopy,â but resorts to softball questions, the answers to which still ring alarm bells. Why has Mark read Mein Kampf multiple times? Heâs interested in that part of history. How come? âThe scale, the tragedy,â he says. âEurope decimated. 7 million Germans, 20 millions Russians, 5 million poles.â Even Tom has to remind him that heâs short about 6 million.
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She had it right the first time. Her âChristian raceâ is lacking only the âwhiteâ to be absolutely reflective of this asshatâs thought process. Fuck her and may her business die a quick death.
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Does the irrelevant white supremacist not understand that refusing to put up with abuse is not the same thing as violating oneâs freedom of speech? Especially when the people she blocked could be arrested for what they said even without violating their first amendment rights.
Probably not. Her response was basically âI have nothing intelligent to say so Iâm gonna nitpick your grammar.â The only people dumber than her are her followers.
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Strip them of their tax-free status, the assholes.
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Oh?
In that case, sue the shit out of them for unlawful discrimination, because if they are for profit then that negates the whole bs âreligious freedomâ argument.
They donât get to have it both ways.
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Yup.
There are enough people who will argue for their âreligious freedomâ over gay marriage who know the facade comes apart here. There are far fewer judges who will buy that in this case. They may themselves be okay with it, but donât want to deal with the fallout.
And since theyâre caught on record saying that⌠well, itâs hard for them to claim that they were "misunderstood,c.
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Sad anecdote:
My own mom didnât âget itâ about gay folksâ right to get married until one day it finally âclickedâ; she placed it in the context of her own life as a White woman, married to a Black man, and how that used to be illegal, for the same exact bullshit reasons.
That was about 5 years ago.
I love my ma dearly, but man, was it disappointing that it took so long for her to have that particular epiphany.
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Yup.
Loving v. Virginia (a more perfectly named plaintiff for the case you couldnât have asked for) was long enough ago that only the most hardcore bigots want it overturned. And unlike abortion rights (which can be so easily twisted) or gay marriage (far more recently enshrined), even a sympathetic judge knows that there arenât enough people to support overturning it, and that there will be people in the streets.
Though part of me wonders if some of the decline in Leverageâs ratings was due to the show outright pairing off a blond white woman with a dark-skinned black man (Parker/Hardison is a delight and a terror to behold â for all the myriad ways they can fuck you up if you mess with them. Fight me.) and just enough people who liked the show for the wrong reasons couldnât handle it. Theyâd never say it aloud, and would have tolerated had the sexes been reversedâŚ
I could be wrong, but if thereâs one safe bet Iâve discovered itâs to not underestimate the average level of casual sexism and racism in your average (especially white) person.
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Yep, long before the doco came out I did a research paper on that case in school. It had some personal interest to me, obvi.
At your recco, I started watching that show recently. Iâm almost done with the first season. So far Iâm really enjoying it.
Because the show is so old, I already know lots of the plot points, including the eventual Hardison/Parker pairing. (Lots of foreshadowing, in the just the one season Iâve seen.)
And while the interracial relationship was probably a factor, at itâs core, Leverage was a series about people getting actual justice in an unfair society, by any means necessary; that probably had a lot to do with it too.
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Gotta admire the fact that they got a show steeped in social anarchy and specifically anti-billionaire onto Ted Turnerâs network⌠and that it took execs three full seasons to figure that out.
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So Leverage switched networks during its 5 season run?
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No.
Just Rogers got a phonecall
âAre we running a communistš show on our network?â
âFourth season! Too late!â
Yes it took that long for them to realize that a show with the tagline âThe rich and powerful take what they want, we steal it back for you.â wasnât exactly in favour of unfettered wealth accumulation.
š in the typical way that anyone on the right sees everything that isnât pure, unchecked capitalism as communism. .
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Whenever the Democrats are in power, the righties throw a lot of disingenuous pseudo-populist rhetoric around. They would have been fine with a Robin Hood show back then as long as the villains were rootless cosmopolitan liberal coastal elite rich people.
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Molly is one of the defenders of Charlottesville, BTW.
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Nonsense! If it wasnât for the Gay Agenda forcing all the wimminz into lebianism heâd be beating them off with a shitty stick! Heâs been forced into these actions by liberalism and tolerance stealing all the hot chicks from him. Why canât you see?!?!11?
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