9 Right-Wingers Who Said and Did Colossally Stupid Things This Week

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http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/9-right-wingers-who-said-and-did-colossally-stupid-things-week



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1. Ohio politician not sorry at all for sending out racist email.

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And then there’s the flat-out refusal to apologize, even when an apology is so clearly in order. That was the situation in Ohio this week. Bob Carleton, a 71-year-old city councilman from Norwalk, OH, fully admited he sent out a, shall we say, totally questionable holiday email in December. This week, the Toledo Blade brought that email to light, and when Carleton was asked about it, he said he just thought it was funny. That’s all.

***AND HERE'S THE E-MAIL

My name be Eboneesha Hernandez, a African-Hispanic-American Girl who jus got a award for bein the bess speler in class. I gots a 47% on the spelin text and 38 points for being black, 10 points for not bringin drugs to class, 10 points for not bringin guns to class, and 15 points for not getting pregnut during the cemester. It be hard to beat a score of 120%.

White dude sit nex to me is McGee from Jaxon Mizipy. He got a 94% on the text but no extra points on acount of he have the same skin color as the opressirs of 150 years ago. Granny ax me to thank all dimocrafts and liberuls for suportin afermative axion. You be showin da way to true eqwallity.

I be gittin in medical skool nex an mabe I be yo doctor since Barrac takn over da healfcare in dis contry.

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2. Art Laffer: 'The minimum wage is the black teenage unemployment act.'

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“Yeah, well the minimum wage makes no sense whatsoever to me. I mean, honestly, it’s just the teenage — black teenage unemployment act” (yup, he not only said that, he stopped himself and added “black” into the sentence), “and this is the very group that we need to have jobs not be put out of work because of the minimum wage so I’m really very much in favor of at least for teenagers getting rid of the minimum wage so we can bring them back into the labor force….”

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3. WSJ writer says women are to blame for the rise of fatherless children.

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Here’s how Taranto knows full well it’s those pushy, liberated broads who are the problem. Female careerism is problem numero uno, Taranto believes, because economic independence gives women less incentive to get hitched. “Female careerism” is an interesting term in and of itself. As Amanda Marcotte points out on Slate, “if you Google ‘female careerism,’ you get a bunch of links, but if you Google ‘male careerism,’ Google asks if you really meant ‘male careers’ or even ‘mahle careers.’ ‘Careerism’—the pathological need to have paid employment—is an affliction that only affects women, apparently.”

[brucefan]

1. Only 9?

Slow week.

[hobbit709]

2. Beat me to it.

[Lunacee_2013]

3. Me too!

What's up with wingers complaining about people working and getting paid enough to make life comfortable? You just know these people are then same idiots who whine about welfare and yet they don't want women or black people to have good jobs (or any jobs, when it comes to women). How are they suppose to survive? Hope a man takes care of them? Hope their boss has a heart and pays them enough to eat and have a place to live? Its like we're damned if we do get a job and damned if we don't and use welfare.

[TBF]

5. You don't think who will be a problem?

The story is about 9 different people.

??

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

6. I suspect that Mr. Laffer is referring to the fact that when the minumum wage

Was introduced in the U.S. in 1938, black unemployment, especially in the South, shot up. This is something that conservatives like to trot out in discussions of raising the minimum wage. Of course, they do not go into the actual reason this happened. In the South, there was a two-tiered wage system, as told by Big Bill Broonzy in his song "Black, Brown and White":

Me and a man was workin' side by side,
Now, this is what it meant:
They was payin' him a dollar an hour,
And they was payin' me fifty cent.

See

The minimum wage law said that employers paying minimum wage had to pay both blacks and whites the same. So the main incentive for white employers to hire blacks was gone, and a lot of blacks lost their jobs, to be replaced by white workers.

Thus, the reason that instituting the minimum wage made black unemployment rise had nothing to do with economics, and everything to do with racism.

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7. you give laffer too much credit.

the only think more idiotic than the crap that comes out of laffer's mouth is thinking that the crap that comes out of laffer's mouth is worth listening to.

no, he's talking about blacks in the context of minimum wage because in right-wing twisted world, paying someone as little as possible is their idea of outreach. the lower the better. heck, if you ask laffer, all blacks had jobs when they were made to work for nothing, right?