From Media Matters:
On his radio show, Savage told listeners that “intelligent people, wealthy people … are very depressed by the weakness that America is showing to these psychotics in the Muslim world. They say, ‘Oh, there’s a billion of them.’ “Savage continued: “I said, ‘So, kill 100 million of them, then there’d be 900 million of them.’ I mean … would you rather us die than them?” Savage added: “Would you rather we disappear or we die? Or would you rather they disappear and they die? Because you’re going to have to make that choice sooner rather than later.”
Savage also referred to the alleged Duke rape victim as “a drunken slut stripping whore accusing men of raping her when there is absolutely no evidence of such a rape other than what comes out of that filthy mouth of hers.” He later asked: “What kind of system do we have that anyone can scream rape and not have to show her face?” adding, “This is all the product of the out-of-control lesbian feminist movement.” Echoing previous comments he has made about the alleged rape victim, Savage said, “The Durham dirt-bag case disgusts me to my core.”
Now, what do you think would happen to a radio show host in this country if he said 100,000 Christians should die? Or if he said America was showing weakness to “these psychotics in the Christian world”? A public lynching? A one way ticket to Gitmo?
Yet here Savage is stereotyping an entire religion and promoting the assignation of its worshippers.
As for the rape victim, I wonder what his response would be if the situation were different? What if a white Duke University student who was putting herself through college by stripping said she was raped by two local black men? Would Savage still call her a “drunken slut stripping whore”? Or would she suddenly become a poor victim and the accused perpetrators become monsters who prowl the town for their next victim?
Posted by Vixen as Political Rants, News at 7:10 PM CDT