{"id":136,"date":"2009-10-15T01:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T09:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=136"},"modified":"2009-10-15T01:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T09:50:00","slug":"gop-hate-speech-finds-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/15\/gop-hate-speech-finds-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Hate Speech Finds the Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have repeatedly opposed the bigoted remarks I have heard from the far right on Faux Noise<\/em>, talk radio, and even on the House floor.  To politicians and pundits, racism and homophobia may just be a tactic to serve Kool-Aid to the the GOP base, but even if their remarks do not reflect their true feelings, which I doubt, their hate speech reaches the ears of people who act on it.  Here\u2019s an example:<\/p>\n

\"KKK\"<\/a> Racism and homophobia are still<\/font> alive and well in America<\/a>:<\/font><\/p>\n

A Geneva High School [Illinois] teacher is being accused of making anti-gay and racist comments in his classroom.<\/font><\/p>\n

Dave Burk, who teaches consumer education, is accused of making the comments by his students during an Oct. 5 lecture on tax money involving the National Endowment for the Arts.<\/font><\/p>\n

"How would you feel about your tax dollars going to pay some black fag in New York to take pictures of other black fags?"<\/span> Burk allegedly asked, according to student Jordan Hunter\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n

…The man who reported Burk to the school administration is calling for his firing, and rightfully so…<\/font><\/p>\n

Inserted from <Crooks and Liars<\/a>><\/p>\n

Will one of the students that heard this think it\u2019s OK to beat up black or gay people.  I certainly hope not.  But GOP hate speech on the House floor has already led to the death of a census worker.  How can we be bipartisan with this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have repeatedly opposed the bigoted remarks I have heard from the far right on Faux Noise, talk radio, and even on the House floor.  To politicians and pundits, racism and homophobia may just be a tactic to serve Kool-Aid to the the GOP base, but even if their remarks do not reflect their true […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}