"Holocaust?" Ninety million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos -- what's to complain about?
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They only have casinos because most states are too prudish to admit that white folks like to gamble. Eighteen states already allow commercial gambling and there are twenty states where there is no Indian legal gambling. The states can legalize gambling, and cut off Indian revenue, at a stroke of the governor's pen. Not much security there.
Then let's take the financial aspect. After the war, Germany paid Israel $1.5bn, which would now have a purchasing value of $13.3bn. Taking 6m as the figure for the Holocaust and 86m for the genocide of the Indians, that should give us a figure of $190,633.3bn. The annual income from Indian casinos, which are managed, owned and operated by Indian money and Indian workers, is around $2.5bn. Plenty to complain about, asshole.
So Rush routinely says racist stuff and apparently his sponsors are OK with that, but after a media flap from his comments about a woman being a prostitute a bunch of them pull their sponsorship.
Don't get me wrong, I was amused by and enjoyed Rush's loss of sponsorship a while back, but if they're going to be consistent, they should listen to everything he says, not focus on just one thing.
@ Raised by Horses
He doesn't, so I'm guessing this is his way of saying 'fuck you!' on his way out.
Actually, this quote is from September 2009 according to that site. Limbaugh has been racist and abrasive for a long time.
@Joe Mama
Well, obviously. I mean, that's his whole shtick. Still, it is fun to watch him talk his show to death, even if this particular quote is an old one. Last I heard, his sponsors were falling over one another backing away from his show.
What's to complain about? Gee, I dunno, maybe the fact that they have to deal with bullshit myths about them receiving free handouts and getting rich off of casinos? Not to mention frequent casual racism (particularly in certain regions of Canada), poverty, being racially profiled by police, the heightened rates of sexual assault and abuse of Native women (most of which is, statistically, perpetrated by non-Native men), PTSD among survivors of residential schools, the desecration of their culture, governments violating treaties, high suicide rates among Native youths, heightened infant mortality rates due to inadequate access to healthcare, discriminatory hiring practices, contaminated drinking water on reservations, etc., etc.? And that's not even getting into the issues that are specific to Metis and Inuit populations.
But the fact that some bands own casinos totally makes up for all of that, right?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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