Conservative talk-radio host Dennis Prager bemoans loss of racial slurs, gets history lesson
Conservative firebrand Dennis Prager has taken a break from pushing hydroxychloroquine and calling lockdowns “the greatest mistake” in history to rail against the loss of racist language.
The Brooklyn-born star of the right-wing Salem Radio Network reportedly complained this week that society has evolved away from using offensive slurs coined during eras of slavery and segregation.
“How many names have Blacks gone through in my lifetime?...What was wrong with Negro? What was wrong with colored? None of them, there’s no problem with any of them,” Prager said in a clip from his radio show posted on Twitter by Media Matters researcher Jason Campbell.
Prager got his answers in a wave of comments to the post.
“It’s like conservatives don’t consider the history of anything and lack basic empathy for those experiences,” Twitter user @keyliebug posted.
It’s like conservatives don’t consider the history of anything and lack basic empathy for those experiences.
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's other Tweets“Sir, you dropped your hood!” another posted.
“As a black woman, I often wonder why we live in the heads of white people like this. Then moms & granny constantly remind me that the folks who terrorized them back in the day are still very much alive today. Did he go through the names for white folks?” read a post from @TweetyFreedom.
As a black woman, I often wonder why we live in the heads of white people like this. Then moms & granny constantly remind me that the folks who terrorized them back in the day are still very much alive today. Did he go through the names for white folks?
This isn’t the first time Prager, 71, has bemoaned the backlash on racial slurs.
“It is idiotic that you cannot say the N-word,” he said on his show in February, according to Media Matters.
The cigar-champing right winger who opposed marriage equality was lambasted last month when he called the coronavirus lockdowns the “greatest mistake in the history of humanity" in a Twitter post.
Let’s assume it’s a mistake. The biggest in human history? The reparations on Germany after WWI? Sending Lenin back to Russia? Carve out for slavery in the US Constitution? The Fire of Alexandria? Canceling Firefly? twitter.com/prageru/status…
He’s made clear on his website his “2020 budget is at risk.”
He also had to cancel a cruise he was due to headline in June. He’s now selling tickets for a rescheduled European cruise in early September.
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