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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Tue Jan 12, 2016, 03:42 PM Jan 2016

Breitbart Racist Is Attacking Neil Degrasse Tyson: ‘He Is Stupid And His Politics Are Dumb’

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/01/10/breitbart-racist-is-attacking-neil-degrasse-tyson-he-is-stupid-and-his-politics-are-dumb/

Let’s face it, Republicans hate Neil Degrasse Tyson because he is the Obama of science. If the frighteningly intelligent black scientist gets his mitts on their white daughters, they will want to abandon their traditional values and become… ASTROPHYSICISTS.

A great example of this is a blatantly racist attack piece put together at the Republican outrage mill Breitbart. In it, the author implies that liberals are racist because they love Tyson. This is followed up immediately by Breitbart using racist tropes of the “lazy black man” to attack him personally while lamenting affirmative action as the only reasons he is on TV....

Quick fact check. Tyson did not blame his lack of a Ph.D. from UT on racism. He was talking about racism on campus, like when he was stopped 7 times by campus police for walking near the physics building. It’s worth noting he was never stopped by campus police walking near the gymnasium. His Ph.D. pursuit ended when the university dissolved his dissertation committee....

It’s a strange manifestation of birtherism in a way. A black man can’t both be smart and popular everywhere except within conservative America. There HAS to be a conspiracy by liberal whites to foist his blackness upon America’s heartland.
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Breitbart Racist Is Attacking Neil Degrasse Tyson: ‘He Is Stupid And His Politics Are Dumb’ (Original Post) KamaAina Jan 2016 OP
Stupid? Riiiiiggghhhht. Harvard undergrad in physics and PhD from Columbia? I'm guessing not too Ed Suspicious Jan 2016 #1
I wish I were half as stupid as NDT Orrex Jan 2016 #2
Brietbart is not a real news source and can not be trusted Gothmog Jan 2016 #3
As the sports saying goes n2doc Jan 2016 #4
Somehow I feel sure that conservative hack does not Hortensis Jan 2016 #5
Breitbart is a voice in the choir. They've broken ONE story ever underpants Jan 2016 #6
Breitbart, where have I heard that name before? Didn't someone by that name die of heart failure at Erose999 Jan 2016 #7

Ed Suspicious

(8,879 posts)
1. Stupid? Riiiiiggghhhht. Harvard undergrad in physics and PhD from Columbia? I'm guessing not too
Tue Jan 12, 2016, 03:53 PM
Jan 2016

many "stupid" people would complete that course of study.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
5. Somehow I feel sure that conservative hack does not
Tue Jan 12, 2016, 04:04 PM
Jan 2016

look up at the sky every time he steps outside. The difference between being in love with the wonders of our universe and being severely limited in ability to wonder.

underpants

(182,271 posts)
6. Breitbart is a voice in the choir. They've broken ONE story ever
Tue Jan 12, 2016, 04:07 PM
Jan 2016

Wiener

That's it. Other than that they are another of the nonsense RW I see posted on FB repeatedly. Breitbart posts some contrived BS and it goes to radio and then Fox. They may reference the sorce once and then it's simply "has been reported" and the run with it. George Will does a column on it at the end of the week.

Erose999

(5,624 posts)
7. Breitbart, where have I heard that name before? Didn't someone by that name die of heart failure at
Tue Jan 12, 2016, 04:07 PM
Jan 2016

age 43 a couple years ago? After last being seen intoxicated in public hollering "stop raping people" at a bunch of college kids?
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