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Archae

(46,301 posts)
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 04:45 PM Dec 2014

Ben Carson says womens' lib caused Ferguson...

Do the Rush Limbo!
"How low can you go!"

Ben Carson: Women's Lib Movement Created 'Me Generation' That Helped Lead To Ferguson

Submitted by Miranda Blue on Monday, 12/1/2014 11:38 am

Conservative activist Ben Carson was a guest on America Family Radio’s “Today’s Issues” last week, where he expounded on his previous comments that young African American men like Michael Brown are getting killed by the police because they “never really learn how to relate to authority in the proper way.” “Certainly in a lot of our inner cities, in particular the black inner cities, where 73 percent of the young people are born out of wedlock, the majority of them have no father figure in their life. Usually the father figure is where you learn how to respond to authority. So now you become a teenager, you’re out there, you really have no idea how to respond to authority, you eventually run into the police or you run into somebody else in the neighborhood who also doesn’t know how to respond but is badder than you are, and you get killed or you end up in the penal system,” Carson said. “If the so-called leaders were really interested in the community, they would be trying to deal with that problem, because that’s happening every single day,” he added. When host Lauren Kitchen Stewards broke in to tie his remarks to young people’s “sense of entitlement,” Carson traced it all back to the women’s liberation movement. “I think a lot of it really got started in the '60s with the ‘me generation.’ ‘What’s in it for me?’ I hate to say it, but a lot of it had to do with the women’s lib movement. You know, ‘I’ve been taking care of my family, I’ve been doing that, what about me?’ You know, it really should be about us,” he said.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ben-carson-womens-lib-movement-created-me-generation-helped-lead-ferguson#sthash.3WbqiKIW.dpuf

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Ben Carson says womens' lib caused Ferguson... (Original Post) Archae Dec 2014 OP
If we could find a way to turn conservative horse shit into energy nichomachus Dec 2014 #1
That is for damn... 3catwoman3 Dec 2014 #28
Hell, we would have warp drive hifiguy Dec 2014 #30
Yet another Republican blithering idiot CanonRay Dec 2014 #2
He's just trying to top his own bullshit Warpy Dec 2014 #3
More of the same hifiguy Dec 2014 #4
Ben Carson's Hypocrisy napkinz Dec 2014 #5
Hypocrisy like that hifiguy Dec 2014 #13
Excellent find. dixiegrrrrl Dec 2014 #17
Another minority conservative looking to pull the ladder out from under everyone else meow2u3 Dec 2014 #18
Just like Uncle Ruckus hifiguy Dec 2014 #24
It has to boggle the mind that this idiot avebury Dec 2014 #6
Now, wait a minute. Why isn't the male to blame? It was his sperm that Frustratedlady Dec 2014 #7
Exactly. What about the sperm donors... 3catwoman3 Dec 2014 #29
I think he sniffed too much formaldehyde in med school. louis-t Dec 2014 #8
“never really learn how to relate to authority in the proper way.” - Ben Carson Rex Dec 2014 #9
If only women listened to conservative men, this world would be perfect. Raine1967 Dec 2014 #10
Absolutely, wives should submit to their husbands and all that jazz. sarcasm. leftofcool Dec 2014 #12
And we have our thread winner. Brigid Dec 2014 #22
Wot? "I am woman hear me roar hands up"? leftofcool Dec 2014 #11
Women put all those black men in jail. and/or executed them on sight? eridani Dec 2014 #14
Perhaps Dr Carson should stick to neurosurgery think Dec 2014 #15
Maybe one of his fellow neurosurgeons needs to give him a brain transplant. LeftishBrit Dec 2014 #21
Fatherlessness is a nationwide social problem. lumberjack_jeff Dec 2014 #16
We seem to put alot of fathers in jail for non violent offenses. bravenak Dec 2014 #36
fully agree nt lumberjack_jeff Dec 2014 #37
Does he blame his mom for trying to stab someone when he was a teenager? JHB Dec 2014 #19
Ben Carson sounds nuts LeftishBrit Dec 2014 #20
So he just discovered this tired conservative claptrap? treestar Dec 2014 #23
So Stupid erpowers Dec 2014 #25
I wont blame Carson, cant walk in his shoes, but I will indict the non minority folks who hate NoJusticeNoPeace Dec 2014 #26
Women's Lib? WTF??? VanillaRhapsody Dec 2014 #27
at least he's original Enrique Dec 2014 #31
This "man" went to college Politicalboi Dec 2014 #32
Message auto-removed Name removed Dec 2014 #33
Fuck, if this guy keeps descending into The Pit Of Teh Stupid at this rate , , , hatrack Dec 2014 #34
Ben Carlson 2016 olddots Dec 2014 #35
assholes like ben carson caused ferguson spanone Dec 2014 #38

nichomachus

(12,754 posts)
1. If we could find a way to turn conservative horse shit into energy
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 04:48 PM
Dec 2014

We could end our reliance on fossil fuels within a week.

CanonRay

(14,084 posts)
2. Yet another Republican blithering idiot
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 04:58 PM
Dec 2014

Save a place in the clown car. My cousin thinks he should be the next President.

Warpy

(111,141 posts)
3. He's just trying to top his own bullshit
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 05:00 PM
Dec 2014

so the guys with the cameras and microphones will keep showing up.

meow2u3

(24,759 posts)
18. Another minority conservative looking to pull the ladder out from under everyone else
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 06:26 PM
Dec 2014

...after he benefits from affirmative action.

You disgust me, Carson!

avebury

(10,951 posts)
6. It has to boggle the mind that this idiot
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 05:13 PM
Dec 2014

actually graduated from medical school. His thought process is to dsyfunctional.

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
7. Now, wait a minute. Why isn't the male to blame? It was his sperm that
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 05:17 PM
Dec 2014

got the whole thing started, then he bugged out when it came to taking responsibility for his kid.


Naw, it's easier to blame the single mother.


Tells you how mentally deficient Carson is when he has to go all the way back to the `60s to find something to blame and wouldn't you know it had to be women? The Republicans never could accept women's lib...still can't. That shows his lack of self-confidence and he's gonna need a ton of that if he wants to be POTUS.

Keep that in mind, Carson. You don't want to show us how weak you are if you want any "me generation" votes.

3catwoman3

(23,947 posts)
29. Exactly. What about the sperm donors...
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 07:14 PM
Dec 2014

...who don't step up to be fathers? These babies are not products of immaculate conception.

louis-t

(23,267 posts)
8. I think he sniffed too much formaldehyde in med school.
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 05:18 PM
Dec 2014

Ben, put the Red Bull down and step away from the table.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
9. “never really learn how to relate to authority in the proper way.” - Ben Carson
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 05:21 PM
Dec 2014

Really?

Really?

Really?

Then

Who

Are

These

People?



Raine1967

(11,589 posts)
10. If only women listened to conservative men, this world would be perfect.
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 05:23 PM
Dec 2014


I hate the damn mansplaining.

leftofcool

(19,460 posts)
11. Wot? "I am woman hear me roar hands up"?
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 05:35 PM
Dec 2014

Yea, kids with single mothers will be gunned down in the street all because mama wants equal rights.

eridani

(51,907 posts)
14. Women put all those black men in jail. and/or executed them on sight?
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 05:38 PM
Dec 2014

Sort of shrinks the supply of black marriage partners, no?

 

think

(11,641 posts)
15. Perhaps Dr Carson should stick to neurosurgery
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 06:15 PM
Dec 2014

His political views like this one are pretty bizarre.....

 

bravenak

(34,648 posts)
36. We seem to put alot of fathers in jail for non violent offenses.
Tue Dec 2, 2014, 12:06 PM
Dec 2014

Cannot be a Father from jail. Maybe if we put those non violent offenders in job training instead of spending 40 grand a year on prison, they could help support their children and send a bit of time with them. That is one thing I consider to be a war on Men. The prison industrial complex. Slavery.

LeftishBrit

(41,203 posts)
20. Ben Carson sounds nuts
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 06:34 PM
Dec 2014

I once read that in the early days of artificial intelligence research, someone created a computer model to simulate a right-wing American hawk of the Cold War era. The model grouped together all things and people that were Bad Things according to such a viewpoint, and treated them as all linked together. Thus, the model was prepared to accept as plausible such statements as that Fidel Castro had built the Berlin Wall.

People like Ben Carson resemble such a computer model, except that their Bad Things are more linked to social progressivism than to foreign 'enemies' (though there are certainly variants of the species who link everything to terrorism). Thus, feminism must have caused Ferguson, because both are Bad Things.

Of course a particularly ugly aspect of this statement is blaming the victim of the Ferguson shooting.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
23. So he just discovered this tired conservative claptrap?
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 06:45 PM
Dec 2014

Is he auditioning to be the new Rush Limbaugh?

What sexist BS.

erpowers

(9,350 posts)
25. So Stupid
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 06:50 PM
Dec 2014

Carson's comment is so stupid on so many levels. First, even though many African American children are born out of wedlock many of them do have their fathers in their lives. A study showed that the majority of African American fathers see their on a daily, or weekly basis. Second, there are many man who were raised by single mothers and became great men. In addition, they will tell you there mother was no one to mess with. She was in fact an authority figure. Third, what about the black men who have been shot and killed by police even though they did not start, or get into a confrontation with the police.

NoJusticeNoPeace

(5,018 posts)
26. I wont blame Carson, cant walk in his shoes, but I will indict the non minority folks who hate
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 06:54 PM
Dec 2014

Obama for no apparent reason but would love to vote for Carson.

They make the Carson's of the world possible.

 

VanillaRhapsody

(21,115 posts)
27. Women's Lib? WTF???
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 06:55 PM
Dec 2014

Is Ben sill angry he is not getting laid.....blaming (and using that antiquated term for that matter) is generally a symptom somebody is not!

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hatrack

(59,574 posts)
34. Fuck, if this guy keeps descending into The Pit Of Teh Stupid at this rate , , ,
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 08:59 PM
Dec 2014

He's going to have the intelligence of a parsnip by the time primary season rolls around.

Fudking PATHETIC.

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