Racism
Glenn Beck Says The Census Is An Attempt To “Increase Slavery”
Mar 10th
Nonsensical tirades that prey on racial anxieties, like the one Glenn Beck delivered on March 9 about the census underscore part of the reason why 119 advertisers fled his show and why the broadcast of his show in the UK has been without any advertisers for over a month now.
Glenn Beck urged people not to fill out the race question on the Census because it’s an attempt to increase modern day slavery (emphasis added):
Glenn Beck: Why were they asking the race question, you said when, in 1790? … Right, they want to know, do you count as three-fifths? Do you count at More >
Glenn Beck Defends 3/5 Clause
Dec 15th
This morning, Glenn Beck defended the three-fifths clause after a black caller questioned him about the fact that the Constitution “didn’t even recognize my people as even human.” Think Progress details the exchange here.
Today was not the first time that Glenn Beck has come down on the wrong side of the three-fifths clause or the institution of slavery. In his most recent book, Glenn Beck seems to defend, whether knowingly or unknowingly, the institution of slavery. Or, how about that on several occasions these past months, Glenn Beck portrayed Pres. Obama as a Constitution hater because Obama referred to the More >
Glenn Beck’s Launches Bigoted Attack Against India
Dec 13th
At least 90 sponsors have already fled Glenn Beck. If you need a reminder for why this might be happening, you need only look to Glenn Beck’s recent bigoted attack against India. Media Matters offers this summary (emphasis added):
Thus, within the span of a few minutes, Beck implied that there are no quality medical schools in India; implied that medical care in India is a shoddy imitation of real health care; implied that the entire nation is an undeveloped backwater without even so much as indoor plumbing; and compared the Ganges River, a holy body of water for one of the world’s More >
