His views on African American
were just as offensive:
I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I'm with the blacks, because we're white trash. We're going across the field. ... They're singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, 'I tell you what: These doggone white people' -- not a word!... Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.
I am of two minds about this ignorant buffoon. Banning him from the show is not going to change anything. What this controversy has done, and this is plastered everywhere in the news, is just drum up more viewers for his show, in the hope that they discuss it.
Are we getting to the point where people are unable to voice their opinions, even those steeped in hatred without being banned by the media while the media profits from the controversy?
A simpler option would simply be to stop watching the show and stop buying their products. This controversy has only drummed up more publicity for this buffoon and his family and their show and franchise. It has become a right versus left debate.
Certainly, exposing him for his bigotry is a good thing, but banning buffoons like this fellow will only drive them underground, and give them the 'they are after our rights' arguments that many of these retards rely on. Free speech does involve not always liking or agreeing with what you hear. But most importantly, free speech involves the freedom to express one's views, no matter how moronic they are. Will they lose viewers? Perhaps. But they will gain more the more attention is given to him and his ban from the show. Instead of giving this moron more attention, it would have been better to ignore him and his family show and business, because at the moment, this has reached even the halls of politics, with the us vs them joining the fray.
As noxious and obscene his views may be, he is free to express them and we should never become a society where we ban speech because it is obscene. The best way is to try to educate the viewers who may hold the same views with rational discussion and explaining why his beliefs are wrong.