Are people who listen to Rush racist?

[itsrobert]

We all know that Rush is a racist. But does that make his audience racist too?

[Old and In the Way]

1. Stoopit is how'd I describe the typical listener.

[triguy46]

18. Extremely high correlation between the two n/t

[porphyrian]

2. I don't think you can catch it simply by listening to the blowhard piece of shit...

...but if you think he's got anything but bullshit to say, you might believe some of the racist shit he spews.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

3. Um, does listening to a racist make one racist? I postulate his audience listens Because it supports

and encourages their worst instincts, of which racism is just one. MKJ

[slackmaster]

4. Sure, some of them are

Even people who post on DU appear at times to show racist tendencies.

[magellan]

5. Maybe. If you listen to Rush and aren't a racist, then you're a masochist

Because I don't know any decent person who can listen to his bigoted crap without feeling pain on behalf of those he's insulting.

[Poiuyt]

6. Closet racists

I'm guessing there are a lot of people who listen who would never admit or actively promote racism or bigotry, but are amused by what they hear. I don't think anyone who is NOT a racists could stand to listen to him.

[msongs]

7. silly question. rush talks about lots of things having nothing to do with race.

he is junkie. does listening to rush make you a junkie?
he is fat. does listening to rush make you fat?
he can't keep a woman. does listening to rush mean you can't keep a woman?

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

[Madspirit]

12. Bad Analogies...

He does not promote being a junkie.
He does not promote being fat.
He does not promote not being able to keep a woman.

HE DOES promote racism.
Lee

[MedleyMisty]

8. Maybe

There's no way I can generalize about every single member of any group.

[fujiyama]

9. Probably a large part is

but not necessarily automatically racist.

But his listeners are almost definitely immature and incapable of rational and independent thought and are easily swayed by propaganda.

[Sir Jeffrey]

10. I know a black guy that listens to Rush nt

[Madspirit]

11. A Masochist?

Or the old saying...Know your enemy.

Lee

[Raine]

13. No, he's probably got more lefty listeners

than Rights cause the left likes to hear both sides.

[Madspirit]

14. There are not two sides to some things.

There's not two sides to racism.
There's not two sides to misogyny.
There is not two sides to homophobia.
There is not two sides to the war.
There's not two sides to a lot of things.

He is simply a foul human and you couldn't pay me to listen to him.
Lee

[Raine]

19. I wouldn't listen to him either

he makes me :puke: but I'm just saying ... :D


EDIT: spelling

[Madspirit]

21. hee

I wasn't criticizing you. That's actually something I think about. The "two sides" people say there always are. I guess there are two sides. ...but the Rush side is wrong and Evil.

I've known a few liberals who listened to him JUST to get angry. JUST so they could write about how stupid he is and how much they hate him. ...but my nerves and my heart and my stomach can't take him. I have enough trouble staying calm on this board with people who mostly think the way I think...<g>
Lee

[Catherine Vincent]

15. Yes, I think so.

A lot of them know it and a lot of them don't realize that they are.

[brentspeak]

16. I've listened to him to get info about RW talking points

Nothing deeper than that, though.

[stevedeshazer]

17. I listen occasionally because Oxycontin Rush is the harbinger of the radical right

In other words, for the instructive value of what the right wing media spin machine has puked up each day for their sycophants.

[Clark2008]

20. Considering that most talk radio stations in the South and

mid-West carry Rush, one sometimes has to listen to him - like it or not - just to get local and national updates in the car.

I know I have to and it's yucky - but I need traffic reports and weather. Sigh.

[Redstone]

22. You have it ass-backward. They listen to him because they're ALREADY racists.

Redstone

[treestar]

23. Mostly

They are not rich Republicans, they are blue collar whites who fall for that divide and conquer strategy regarding labor - the black, the hispanic, whoever else, are taking "their" jobs.

Rush and his whining about political correctness show it - they wish they could say racist things without being called on it or opposed. That's why they find PC so "oppressive."

[Azathoth]

24. It's probably best to quote Dennis Miller on this one...

Limbaugh articulates the blindingly white anger of every short-sleeved Wal-mart assistant manager in America who's outraged because a black kid called him by his first name.

-Dennis Miller