FoxNews - Preserving the master race since 1996
Brian Kilmeade, one of the hosts of Fox and Friends
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This isn't FoxNews' first on air venture into preserving the genes of the master race. John Gibson famously had that on air editorial telling white people "we need to make more babies." .
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There have been alot of on air racist comments by various FoxNews folks, but when the hosts start talking genes and racial purity, we've passed from simple ignorant bigotry into "race war" territory.
That's a whole different ball of wax.
This should be a hugely bigger issue than it is.
"We are — we keep marrying other species and other ethnics and other ... See, the problem is the Swedes have pure genes. Because they marry other Swedes .... Fins marry other Fins, so they have a pure society."
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This isn't FoxNews' first on air venture into preserving the genes of the master race. John Gibson famously had that on air editorial telling white people "we need to make more babies." .
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There have been alot of on air racist comments by various FoxNews folks, but when the hosts start talking genes and racial purity, we've passed from simple ignorant bigotry into "race war" territory.
That's a whole different ball of wax.
This should be a hugely bigger issue than it is.
posted by mikevotes at
7:37 AM
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What I find shocking is that this sort of stuff doesn't make real news. And not just Fox pin heads' racism and over-the-topness, but the really vile things coming from sitting GOP politicians and spokespeople.
Is it because the reset of the journalistic world sees Fox as a right-wing joke? Or is it that we, as a nation, really have slid back a few notches in social (and intellectual) evolution? I fear it's the latter.
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-epm, at 11:30 AM
I agree, but this case is a bit exceptional to me. I draw a very different line between racially stupid or insensitive comments, and discussions of genetic "purity."
That's a whole different level than simply showing some bigotry.
Once you start talking about genes and purity, that's using race to define enemy. That's aggresive racism. That's race war.
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mikevotes, at 2:53 PM
I didn't see the Fox and Friends segment (goes without saying), but in the clip the brown-haired guy sounds like he's being a bit cheeky... a bit tongue-in-cheek. Still.... I get you're point. And besides, jest is often used to express one's true feelings without owning them. The same thing is accomplished with "some say..." reporting.
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-epm, at 3:19 PM
There are many like him out there. They probably see it as free speech.
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Anonymous, at 8:11 PM
Oh, there's every right to believe or say stuff far more vile than this. But there's not a right to be a FoxNews host while you do it.
And FoxNews has a right to support any speech they want, but I rally don't think their sponsors want them to appear racist.
If it's your money and your mouth, you get to say anything. But as soon as it's someone else's money and your speaking through someone else's megaphone, that right is not absolute.
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mikevotes, at 10:35 PM
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