{"id":31437,"date":"2016-04-21T15:39:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T22:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=31437"},"modified":"2016-04-21T19:35:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T02:35:27","slug":"racists-on-fox-news-react-to-the-harriet-tubman-20-00-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=31437","title":{"rendered":"Racists On Fox News React To The Harriet Tubman $20.00 Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like clockwork, all that needs to happen is for some news event to address something involving race that can be tied to the Obama administration and the bigots come slithering out from the crevices in the floor. The latest example of this is the long overdue initiative to place a woman on U.S. currency. The woman selected for the honor is the heroic former slave and abolitionist, Harriet Tubman. Oh, and she just happens to be black.<\/p>\n

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Leading the way, Greta Van Susteren of Fox News delivered a commentary (video below) that portrayed the decision to put Tubman on the $20.00 bill as an “awful”<\/em> idea that amounts to “dividing the country.”<\/em> Van Susteren blasted the plan in the most insulting terms, saying that “The Obama administration went stupid, and went stupid for no reason.”<\/em> Then she offered her own alternative to put Tubman on a non-existent $25.00 bill instead, saying that it would be “the smart and easy thing to do.”<\/em><\/p>\n

First of all, what would be smart or easy about minting a new bill just for the purpose of putting Tubman on it? It would waste millions of dollars to design, produce, and maintain, despite the fact that there is no demand for a denomination that’s $5.00 more than the twenty. That would make it a pretty stupid thing to do. And the only thing that is making any of this divisive is the right-wingers like Van Susteren who insist on dredging up controversy where there need not be any.<\/p>\n

What’s more, segregating Tubman to a new, unwanted denomination smacks of a form of the “separate but equal”<\/em> philosophy that was really just an excuse to practice discrimination. Van Susteren is effectively saying that Tubman isn’t fit for the currency that the rest of us white folk use. That reasoning has also been adopted by Ben Carson and Donald Trump who have both advocated for an even more devalued denomination for Tubman: the $2.00 bill.<\/p>\n

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Not surprisingly, the response to Van Susteren’s commentary by the cretins at the Fox News community website, Fox Nation, was an avalanche of racism. This has become a predictable aftereffect of any race-related news story (see The Collected Hate Speech Of The Fox News Community<\/a>). Here are just a few examples of the bigoted opinions that Fox fans are comfortable expressing when they are among their own kind:<\/p>\n

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