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Showing Original Post only (View all)When You Defend Phil Robertson, Here's What You're Really Defending [View all]
Reality.1. Robertson thinks black Americans were treated just fine in the Jim Crow-era South, and that they were happy there. "I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. Im with the blacks, because were white trash. Were going across the field.... Theyre singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, I tell you what: These doggone white peoplenot a word!... Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues."
2. Robertson thinks the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor because they didn't believe in Jesus. "All you have to do is look at any society where there is no Jesus. Ill give you four: Nazis, no Jesus. Look at their record. Uh, Shintos? They started this thing in Pearl Harbor. Any Jesus among them? None. Communists? None. Islamists? Zero. Thats eighty years of ideologies that have popped up where no Jesus was allowed among those four groups. Just look at the records as far as murder goes among those four groups."
3. Robertson hates gay people. Robertson in 2010: "Women with women, men with men, they committed indecent acts with one another, and they received in themselves the due penalty for their perversions. Theyre full of murder, envy, strife, hatred. They are insolent, arrogant, God-haters. They are heartless, they are faithless, they are senseless, they are ruthless. They invent ways of doing evil."
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Non-whites and non-Christians and gays keep getting the sense that, even setting aside policy, conservatives and Republicans just don't care for them. The "Duck Dynasty" episode, with Ted Cruz and others rushing out to defend Robertson's honor, is just another example of why.
http://www.businessinsider.com/when-you-defend-phil-robertson-heres-what-youre-really-defending-2013-12#ixzz2oDfExbyk
2. Robertson thinks the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor because they didn't believe in Jesus. "All you have to do is look at any society where there is no Jesus. Ill give you four: Nazis, no Jesus. Look at their record. Uh, Shintos? They started this thing in Pearl Harbor. Any Jesus among them? None. Communists? None. Islamists? Zero. Thats eighty years of ideologies that have popped up where no Jesus was allowed among those four groups. Just look at the records as far as murder goes among those four groups."
3. Robertson hates gay people. Robertson in 2010: "Women with women, men with men, they committed indecent acts with one another, and they received in themselves the due penalty for their perversions. Theyre full of murder, envy, strife, hatred. They are insolent, arrogant, God-haters. They are heartless, they are faithless, they are senseless, they are ruthless. They invent ways of doing evil."
snip--
Non-whites and non-Christians and gays keep getting the sense that, even setting aside policy, conservatives and Republicans just don't care for them. The "Duck Dynasty" episode, with Ted Cruz and others rushing out to defend Robertson's honor, is just another example of why.
http://www.businessinsider.com/when-you-defend-phil-robertson-heres-what-youre-really-defending-2013-12#ixzz2oDfExbyk
Thank you, Phil, for helping us, through your clueless, ignorant hatred and bigotry, to expose conservatives for what they really are, and in the process, helping us destroy the hateful, racist, homophobic republican party forever.
Free your heart and mind from all the hatred, Phil, transform yourself, learn what love is, so you can experience the joy of really being alive!
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If it is calculated, he is indisputably an extremely evil person by all standards of our society.
Zorra
Dec 2013
#19
That second paragraph is exactly what the conservative religious right is saying now!
mountain grammy
Dec 2013
#17
That photo is cut. if you find the whole picture you would see that he had both hands up and
hrmjustin
Dec 2013
#46
I don't argue that. my issue was with the pic. He was not giving the salute there.
hrmjustin
Dec 2013
#52
No I am not arguing against his being a nazi. That picture was at his ordination to the priesthood w
hrmjustin
Dec 2013
#55
Seems to me it might be time to put the award-winning TV series "Roots" back on the air.
calimary
Dec 2013
#39
Yeah, but Phil & Right Wing would say network just shilling for Obama's Third Term. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Dec 2013
#57
And it says nothing about the horrendous murder rate HERE IN Nice, White, Christian America.
calimary
Dec 2013
#40
That does not surprise me. History alone is skewed to their view. Science is still teaching
jwirr
Dec 2013
#86
"While the Dixie Chicks are not entitled to the First Amendment, rednecks are."
SunSeeker
Dec 2013
#74
"A good woman is "hard to find...You gotta marry these girls when they're 15 or 16..."
Zorra
Dec 2013
#33
The Republican conservative mindset that he represents is the very reason polluting,
Zorra
Dec 2013
#44
The more they open their hateful Republican mouths, the more they shoot themselves in the foot,
Zorra
Dec 2013
#54
The New Testament can do just as well. Lets do Phil the Duck Guy, NT style....
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2013
#90