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Michael Savage Feels Oppressed

Posted by Melissa McEwan, Shakesville at 3:32 PM on June 18, 2009.


The shock jock is worried that the "Christian heterosexual married male" is under attack.

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"The white Christian heterosexual married male is the epitome of everything right with America, and yet it is the white Christian heterosexual married male who has been made the beast of America."

Michael Savage, who, like most conservatives, doesn't understand that it's not being white that's bad, but privileging whiteness, and it's not being Christian that's bad, but privileging Christianity, and it's not being straight that's bad, but privileging straightness, and it's not being married that's bad, but privileging marriage, and it's not being male that's bad, but privileging men and maleness.

What's bad is not being these things, but benefiting from the undeserved privilege conferred upon them. The beast is not the white Christian heterosexual married male, but the white person, or the Christian person, or the heterosexual person, or the married person, or the man who sits on hir laurels not challenging the institutions that grant them a birthright of unearned privilege, access, and opportunity.

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Tagged as: christians, conservatives, men, lgbt, michael savage, shock jocks, right-wing media, heterosexuals

Melissa McEwan writes and edits the blog Shakespeare's Sister.


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Michael Savage isn't oppressed enough.
Posted by: pelican beak on Jun 18, 2009 3:37 PM   
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Umm
Posted by: chaoslegs on Jun 18, 2009 5:52 PM   
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Isn't he Jewish, or at least his parents were.

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Michael Savage Banned From Britain May "09
Posted by: Razional Thinker on Jun 19, 2009 1:01 AM   
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'As the Britain's Home Secretary has already said, he was excluded for engaging in unacceptable behaviour by making comments that might provoke others to serious criminal acts and foster hatred that might lead to inter-community violence.

'Any legal proceedings would be robustly defended; we stand by our decision to exclude this individual.

'Coming to the UK is a privilege that we refuse to extend to those who abuse our standards and values to undermine our way of life.'
***************
PS...Too bad the US does not ban Fox!!

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Micheal Weinie
Posted by: lively56 on Jun 19, 2009 3:31 AM   
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Micheal is nothing but a whining weinie.

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» RE: Micheal Weinie Posted by: Dak
» RE: Micheal Weinie Posted by: clvngodess
Maybe God's Trying to Tell them something
Posted by: Purple Girl on Jun 19, 2009 4:11 AM   
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Couldn't extend a lil'Equality, a Lil' Dignity, A Lil' Althruism, A Lil' Empathy, A Lil' Compassion? Then maybe you will have to be made to extend those Human Courtesies. Males have been less than half the population, 'Christians' even less. and What defines or constitutes 'Married' and "hetero" are subject to culture and historical perspective.Then to use these criteria to define a group only shows how small this group is, Yet they have been afforded (or seized) the right of control over all the other non exclusionary conditional demographics. The Females, the Non white Females, The non Christian females, the non married Females, the non hetero females..the non white chrisitains, the white non christians, the white non married, the White non hetero...The non married Christian, The non married Non hetero, The married non christian....Figure it out expotentially and the reality of Weiners Demographic becomes apparent- they,with all their exclusionary conditions, constitute the smallest sliver in the pie of Humanity.
And this is exactly why they are Freaking out. Perhaps since God could not get you white married hetero christian Males to adhere to His Commandments, He has decided to extinguish their self anointed powers through increasing the other demographics numbers. Lossing your power and prestige? consider it God's Will.

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Playing their game...
Posted by: chasaturn on Jun 19, 2009 5:51 AM   
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Please, these people are beneath our contempt and giving them notoriety only adds to their paychecks - and lends a sort of "credibility" to their bouts of verbal diarrhea (in the eyes of those who believe hatred, fear and violence are legitimate social interactions).
Please, no more space given to these traitorous scum. Post their home addresses and phone numbers and they'll soon shut up.

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Seriously
Posted by: WyrdSister on Jun 19, 2009 6:04 AM   
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married, white, christian, hetero males are feeling oppressed....?

GOOD! its about time you take a good swallow of your own medicine, yah?

and just for the record...there is no such thing as reverse racism, sexism, or whatever they want to call it. what it is really called is BALANCE. the scales have been tipped in your favor for much much too long. take your rightful place, off your self-appointed pedestal, back down here with the rest of us. and seriously, be quiet about it. no one is going to have sympathy.

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» RE: Seriously Posted by: clvngodess
Itty Boo
Posted by: Cathyblj on Jun 19, 2009 7:55 AM   
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He thinks the white Christian heterosexual married male is the epitome of everything right with America???

The white Christian heterosexual married male has made himself the beast of America. By being a smug, self-righteous, overindulged, selfish asshole.

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» Bravo! Posted by: magiquarian1969
Michael Weiner Savage IS Oppressed...
Posted by: Quannah on Jun 19, 2009 10:00 AM   
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or, rather, I should say, his brain cells are oppressed. And repressed. And depressed. And compressed.

He's such a baby... "waaaah! waaaaah! waaaaaaaah! Poor me!"

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DOG LOVER
Posted by: sowles on Jun 19, 2009 10:02 AM   
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Milisa, Dr. Savage is Jewish. And he loves dogs more than the so-called rights of the "oppressed" and the "underprivliged." This society has been and always be a matriarchial society. Just because the womens movement gave females the right to vote, does not change history. Dr. Savage, lives by the US Constitution. All of his rants on his talk show are based in Constitutional law. Without, "WE the People," and our Constution w'd still be a nation run by the Queen.

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» RE: this society? matriarchal? Posted by: WyrdSister
» RE: DOG LOVER Posted by: flaplather
» RE: DOG LOVER Posted by: Morell
Huh?
Posted by: reelectnoone on Jun 19, 2009 10:21 AM   
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What?

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micko
Posted by: micko on Jun 19, 2009 12:49 PM   
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Some years ago I bought a very nice car at an agency. The salesman tried to sell me everything else, but nothing suited, and I was about to leave. Then he showed the car I ended up buying; a good deal. I would have recommended that agency, as well as the salesman, since he finally came through, to anyone who asked. But then, I read a letter to the editor he wrote, and it was along the lines of the Savage whine. How pathetic. And I would never recommend the man now. Well, it's all about entitlement, and white religious males have had it all, for millennia.

Fortunately, reincarnation is most likely a fact, even if we hate the idea of it. So, despite there being no hell after all, there is the possibility of living lives to learn. And if you've been an entitled male, as above, boy have you got a lot to learn. Welcome the world of the female, boys. But, despite the difficulties and suffering inherent in being female, whining just isn't done.

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Savage is a professional paranoic; of course he feels oppressed!
Posted by: UnEasyOne on Jun 19, 2009 2:52 PM   
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He "fears for the children" if "vermin" like us are allowed to survive and roam free.

Nightly, he turns all the prejudices and fears of others into a sense of betrayal and oppression

Every time I comment on him, I beg my fellow progressives - for your own protection - to: Listen to him sometime!

If you buy into his shtick, it makes perfect sense to run into a church and shoot liberals until your ammo runs out. Matter of fact (he implies) if you had any balls (most of his listeners are male) that's what (he implies) you would do.

Ironic that one of the worst, most hate-filled and dangerous right wing demagogues since Hitler is himself born a Jew and rumored to be homosexual. Otherwise, we'd be hearing nightly calls for pogroms.

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Will somebody PLEASE give the whiny weenie a pacifier to
Posted by: abusedbypenguins on Jun 19, 2009 5:08 PM   
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insert into which orifice will make the poor baby feel better.

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He has issues
Posted by: lalala on Jun 24, 2009 12:11 AM   
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he has bipolar. Thats why one minute hes in love with herbal wisdom and gay men, and the next a raving lunatic. I wish he would be in touch with his herb loving side more often cause this is getting so old.

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Guilt peddlers
Posted by: SteveinAZ on Jun 24, 2009 8:52 AM   
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Sorry, I'm not in the market to buy the guilt you're peddling and I have NO respect for anyone who is buying your guilt products. Let's see........MY ancestors served in the Union Army and Union Navy and they helped free the slaves and two of them died doing it. It's time to send reparation cash to ME!

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» RE: Guilt peddlers Posted by: Rishy
What a Bore
Posted by: jmmartin on Jun 24, 2009 3:58 PM   
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This guy is a whining pussy. Since he change his name from Weiner to Savage he was obviously trying to cover his obvious wimpdom. And since his real name is Jewish and his pseudo-name is not, I have one thing to say to him: Er zol kakn mit blit un mit ayter.

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