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Discrimination Is Apparently Awesome

by Elon James White|  April 25, 20135:57 pm| 35 Comments

This post is in: This Week In Blackness

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Listen folks–I don’t know if you knew this but…

“The school discriminated against this teacher, yes they absolutely did and they should have,” Fischer said, “they were absolutely right to do it…. It is right to discriminate against people who engage in aberrant sexual behavior, we should discriminate against people like that.”

Logical. So logical! Gays are icky hence we have the right to be mean to them. Case closed.

On today’s #TWiBRadio we tackle this bowl of magical nutty goodness plus an open letter to Michelle Obama about Beyonce’s wayward nipples, and the amazing choose your own adventure and then get told why if you didn’t agree with Dubya you’re wrong game at the Bush Presidential Center. Take a listen here:

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35Comments

  1. 1.

    Zifnab

    April 25, 2013 at 6:00 pm

    and the amazing choose your own adventure and then get told why if you didn’t agree with Dubya you’re wrong game at the Bush Presidential Center.

    The Decider, bitches!

  2. 2.

    Mnemosyne

    April 25, 2013 at 6:18 pm

    IIRC, even the sainted Ronald Reagan wasn’t able to get traction with a ban on gay teachers, and that was pre-AIDS. What makes this moron think it’s going to fly with the general public now?

  3. 3.

    Riccardo Cabeza

    April 25, 2013 at 6:23 pm

    Bryan Fischer, Fred Phelps, Pat Robertson, David Barton, Alan Keyes, Tony Perkins, Bill Donahue, John Hagee…limitless room to grift hate for Jesus.

  4. 4.

    Morzer

    April 25, 2013 at 6:26 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    It won’t fly with the general public, but it will persuade hateful bigots to piss a little more liberty cash into his coffers.

  5. 5.

    Gex

    April 25, 2013 at 6:49 pm

    The anti-gay industry is going through a transition. The easy money days are over. Lots of people are getting out. This guy is going to pick up any followers whose leader abandons them and milk it as long as he can.

  6. 6.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    April 25, 2013 at 6:51 pm

    I wish my teachers had been gay. With my fashion sense and subtle innuendo while engaging in witty repartee, I’m sure I could have gotten better grades.

  7. 7.

    Lurking Canadian

    April 25, 2013 at 6:57 pm

    Who is this guy Fischer?

  8. 8.

    Calouste

    April 25, 2013 at 6:58 pm

    It is right to discriminate against people who engage in aberrant sexual behavior, we should discriminate against people like that.

    So we can discriminate against people like Newt Gingrich, John McCain and Mark Sanford?

  9. 9.

    Scott S.

    April 25, 2013 at 7:00 pm

    It’s only a matter of time before Fischer starts telling people to start axe-murdering their children.

  10. 10.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    April 25, 2013 at 7:10 pm

    @Calouste: What you just said, twice, with sprinkles.

  11. 11.

    Gin & Tonic

    April 25, 2013 at 7:24 pm

    As far as I’m concerned, the aberrant sexual behavior is spending all your time thinking about what random strangers are doing in their own bedroom.

  12. 12.

    Morzer

    April 25, 2013 at 7:26 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    While having yourself a little sexytime with a wetsuit and two dildos. You didn’t think that Bryan Fischer got all those creases and wrinkles at the tanning salon, did you?

  13. 13.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    April 25, 2013 at 7:29 pm

    @Lurking Canadian: “American Family Association”. He’s basically a fascist nut.

  14. 14.

    Churchlady320

    April 25, 2013 at 7:33 pm

    @Morzer:

    Look on this as a closed system, circulating money from one zealot to the next, from one rube to the zealot, and we all get to stay OUT of it.

    If we could JUST get them hermetically sealed so they can’t talk to us, it would be perfect.

  15. 15.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 25, 2013 at 7:33 pm

    Wait, someone from the AFA is a fascist grifter? Color me shocked.

  16. 16.

    David Koch

    April 25, 2013 at 7:34 pm

    Will Manti Te’o be selected in the first round?

    How will the Jets screw up?

    Enquirering minds want to know!

  17. 17.

    pseudonymous in nc

    April 25, 2013 at 7:42 pm

    Bryan Fischer is a professional troll. That is all.

  18. 18.

    Cassidy

    April 25, 2013 at 7:52 pm

    And somehow I was the asshole for suggesting this bigoted death cult needs to die.

  19. 19.

    Morzer

    April 25, 2013 at 7:53 pm

    @David Koch:

    I am praying for the Steelers to take Teo so we get to hear a scream of rage from West Virginia as John Cole goes on the rampage.

  20. 20.

    Morzer

    April 25, 2013 at 7:54 pm

    @Churchlady320:

    It’s not really circulating money as much as funneling it up to the boss grifters. Admittedly it circulates among them.

  21. 21.

    Roger Moore

    April 25, 2013 at 7:59 pm

    @efgoldman:

    Only the gay ones and/or the melanin-enhanced ones.

    And the apostates. And ones who are willfully disobedient. And girls who have premarital sex. And, and, and…

  22. 22.

    Morzer

    April 25, 2013 at 8:03 pm

    Seriously, where is the open NFL draft thread? Has Cole sunk so far into spider-hugging candy-ass hippiedom that he’s given up on football altogether?

  23. 23.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 25, 2013 at 8:10 pm

    @Morzer: Spiders do have many limbs; perhaps the hugging is great.

  24. 24.

    Morzer

    April 25, 2013 at 8:18 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    You know, we never did get pictures of Cole’s squeeze…

  25. 25.

    Frankensteinbeck

    April 25, 2013 at 8:19 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    I have a degree in spiders. I worked in a spider breeding program for awhile. Spider hugging is not great. Sweet and loving relationships are not a spider thing. Cannibalism – cannibalism is a spider thing. Also FABULOUS dancing.

  26. 26.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    April 25, 2013 at 8:21 pm

    @Lurking Canadian: That is my question, why should any give a flying f*ck what he or his fellow travelers, like William Donahue or Tony Perkins thinks? I am beginning to think they are professional trolls pulling progressive chains for money, or double agents who actually help progressive causes with their chain pulling.

  27. 27.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 25, 2013 at 8:23 pm

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    Spider hugging is not great. Sweet and loving relationships are not a spider thing. Cannibalism – cannibalism is a spider thing. Also FABULOUS dancing.

    Good to know.

  28. 28.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    April 25, 2013 at 8:46 pm

    @efgoldman: They get paid and live in upscale troll-holes, eating bugs and worms from only the best dirt. :-D

  29. 29.

    Gravenstone

    April 25, 2013 at 8:51 pm

    @efgoldman: The paydays.

  30. 30.

    Morzer

    April 25, 2013 at 8:59 pm

    I am still recovering from the Dolphins jumping up to the 3rd spot and snagging Dion Jordan. Never saw Jeff Ireland taking that gamble.

  31. 31.

    El Caganer

    April 25, 2013 at 9:00 pm

    Fischer was talking about Adam Savader?

  32. 32.

    billgerat

    April 25, 2013 at 10:47 pm

    “It is right to discriminate against people who engage in aberrant sexual behavior, we should discriminate against people like that.”

    So when Jesus saved the adulterous woman, Fischer would have been there to stone her.

  33. 33.

    Jay in Oregon

    April 25, 2013 at 11:50 pm

    @billgerat:
    Jesus wouldn’t have gotten halfway through “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone” before any Republican within earshot started throwing rocks.

    There ain’t nothing they love more than demonstrating their moral superiority by kicking people when they’re down.

  34. 34.

    pseudonymous in nc

    April 26, 2013 at 1:28 am

    @efgoldman:

    Do professional trolls live under designated bridges? What separates them from the amateurs?

    They get paid. In wingnut welfare, which is not the same as earning a living, but the conversion rate between wingnut welfare dollars and honest ones is still 1:1.

  35. 35.

    Yutsano

    April 26, 2013 at 3:27 am

    @pseudonymous in nc: The resident troll of Seattle is intrigued, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

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