Comments on: News Update: Fire, Feces and Freeways http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/01/31/news-update-fire-feces-and-freeways/ Hatewatch is a blog of the Southern Poverty Law Center Fri, 8 Aug 2008 00:04:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: S.Reichert http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/01/31/news-update-fire-feces-and-freeways/#comment-16502 S.Reichert Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:34:07 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/01/31/news-update-fire-feces-and-freeways/#comment-16502 Dear Southern Poverty Law Center, Thank You so much for your wonderful and informative work. -From Brooklyn Dear Southern Poverty Law Center,
Thank You so much for your wonderful and informative work.
-From Brooklyn

]]> By: IludiumPhosdex http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/01/31/news-update-fire-feces-and-freeways/#comment-16356 IludiumPhosdex Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:36:45 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/01/31/news-update-fire-feces-and-freeways/#comment-16356 A synopsis of some rather tastelessly bigoted comments from Michael "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder" Savage, per Media Matters for America: <blockquote><b> On <i>The Savage Nation</i>, a caller identified by Michael Savage as "Kojo" asked Savage: "[D]o you know how the AIDS got there [Africa]?" Savage responded: "It got there because it was spread from eating green monkey meat, my friend. If you study the science -- but I don't think you have the capacity to understand science, my dear friend Kojo." Later, Savage stated: "See, we don't live in Africa where people settle arguments with machetes. We live in a country where we settle it with arguments. Something you apparently don't know anything about. ... Couldn't use the machete so his mind went blank. There, that's what we got. There's multiculturalism for you. There's immigration for you. There's the new America for you. Bring them in by the millions. Bring in 10 million more from Africa. Bring them in with AIDS. Show how multicultural you are. They can't reason, but bring them in with a machete in their head. Go ahead. Bring them in with machetes in their mind." </blockquote></b> And yet, we have a few racists calling for the "evacuation" of Afrikaners from South Africa on "fear of persecution" grounds that, methinks, sound rather suspicious--not to mention appeals for funds towards those ends. A synopsis of some rather tastelessly bigoted comments from Michael “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder” Savage, per Media Matters for America:


On The Savage Nation, a caller identified by Michael Savage as “Kojo” asked Savage: “[D]o you know how the AIDS got there [Africa]?” Savage responded: “It got there because it was spread from eating green monkey meat, my friend. If you study the science — but I don’t think you have the capacity to understand science, my dear friend Kojo.” Later, Savage stated: “See, we don’t live in Africa where people settle arguments with machetes. We live in a country where we settle it with arguments. Something you apparently don’t know anything about. … Couldn’t use the machete so his mind went blank. There, that’s what we got. There’s multiculturalism for you. There’s immigration for you. There’s the new America for you. Bring them in by the millions. Bring in 10 million more from Africa. Bring them in with AIDS. Show how multicultural you are. They can’t reason, but bring them in with a machete in their head. Go ahead. Bring them in with machetes in their mind.”

And yet, we have a few racists calling for the “evacuation” of Afrikaners from South Africa on “fear of persecution” grounds that, methinks, sound rather suspicious–not to mention appeals for funds towards those ends.

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