Comments by Phil Robertson of ‘Duck Dynasty’ not limited to gays

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Comments by Phil Robertson of ‘Duck Dynasty’ not limited to gays
Max Ehrenfreund

Yet although A&E focused on these remarks in its statement, Robertson made a number of other comments that could be considered offensive. Describing race relations in the Louisiana of his youth, he said that black farm laborers were happy there. “I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person,” he said. “They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.”

Robertson grew up during the period of the civil rights movement, a time of intense racial tension across the country and especially in the South.

Robertson also compared Shintoism, a faith currently practiced by some 107 million Japanese people, to Nazism, thereby equating an ancient form of ancestral worship with the murderous totalitarian ideology of Adolf Hitler. Robertson was arguing that a lack of Christian faith was responsible for the violence perpetrated by the imperial Japanese regime, as well as by Communist dictators and Islamist militants.

“The violent crime rate here in America has plummeted since 1990, even as church attendance has stayed the same,” Magary noted. “And, of course, Phil is conveniently ignoring centuries upon centuries of war, bloodshed, and human enslavement committed in the name of Christ.”

[Warpy]

1. Yeah, I keep telling people his idiocy about black folks under Jim Crow

is what got him into real trouble.

He's an all round rich bigot. I knew a lot of those.

[Cicada]

2. Lack of Christianity explains high Japanese crime rate

After the earthquake and tsunamis many millions of dollars worth of Japanese currency was found and turned into police so those who lost it could get it back. As duckie Phil knows - Japan is riddled with crime. Same with muslims - when I worked in Saudi Arabia we locked our doors only when other Americans were in town.