Matt Taibbi: Rand Paul's college fraternity really loved to joke about Hispanics and "Negroids"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Posted: October 21, 2010 8:57 A.M. EDT | By Matt Taibbi
Rand Paul’s Bizarre College Fraternity

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/matt-taibbi/blogs/TaibbiData_May2010/223948/83512

So these old NoZe newsletters are making the rounds, and here's what I've got: in addition to having fun at the expense of Christians, The Rope also digs black and Hispanic jokes.



Some of the stuff that's circulating is just stupid and unfunny more than anything else, but for sure it's probably not the kind of thing your future political hopeful would want to be involved with. One Rope article from the same time period of Paul's involvement with NoZe offers a satirical how-to study guide ("The MashuggNoZe Study-Like-A-Fool program") and in that same newsletter there is a series of running stand-alone jokes about penguins, one of which being that "Penguins and minorities tend to do badly on ACT, SAT, and other standardized tests."



So there's that. Then there's another piece that jokes about a chimpanzee giving birth to a "negroid" baby called "Monkey Saw, Monkey Did." The ostensible occasion of the satirical article is the chimp giving birth to a "scrapping Anglo-Saxon baby":

"Biological history was made last week at the Cen-Tex Zoo when eight year old Fifi, chimpanzee and friend to many, gave a wide birth to a scrapping Anglo-Saxon male."

The piece goes on:

"We were really kind of surprised, we've pulled an occasional negroid, one Shetland pony, and a couple of trout we had to throw back, but this beats the hell out of a two-headed calf.

[gateley]

1. I LOVE his sense of humor! NOTHING is funnier than ethnic groups that have been

treated like animals, killed, hated and discriminated against. :rofl:

:puke:

[Ian David]

2. WHY is this race even close???

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. I hear ya.

I don't understand why the majority of high-profile Republican candidates...Paul, McMahon, O'Donnell, Angle, Fiorina, Whitman...are even "candidates." The fact that anyone would look at anyone on that list and think "Yeah, THAT'S who we need running this country" sends chills up and down my spine.

[Quantess]

4. What a shocking photo.

Could you please explain?

[Ian David]

5. It's from American History X

WARNING: GRAPHIC
American History X Curb Stomp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV9Oj-vhLkE

American History X (1998)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120586/