Savage Love Episode 564
Savage Lovecast
Dan Savage
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2017
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast, www.com. |
| 0:06.6 | If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony, |
| 0:16.1 | well, there's nothing you can't pass on the Savage Lovecast. |
| 0:24.6 | Tom Cotton, the arch-conservative Republican senator from Arkansas, released a statement Sunday after the violence in Charlottesville. |
| 0:33.6 | Statement went like this. |
| 0:34.8 | White supremacists who claim to take America back only betray their own |
| 0:38.5 | ignorance of what makes America so special are country's founding recognition of the natural rights |
| 0:44.1 | of all mankind and commitment to the defense of the rights of all Americans. These contemptible |
| 0:50.0 | little men do not speak for what is just noble and best about America. |
| 0:55.0 | All right. |
| 0:55.5 | There is a lot of person could take issue with here, particularly a thinking person, |
| 0:59.7 | not the Republican senator or Republican voter. |
| 1:03.5 | For example, our nation's founders did not recognize the rights of all mankind. |
| 1:08.0 | They only recognized enslaved Africans and their enslaved descendants as three-fifths |
| 1:12.5 | of a person. They viewed women as property, not citizens, and they couldn't recognize the humanity |
| 1:17.7 | of Native Americans, much less their rights. So yeah, our founders fell short of demonstrating a |
| 1:25.1 | commitment to the rights of quote-unquote all Americans. |
| 1:29.0 | Or maybe it depends on what the meaning of the word all is in this context. |
| 1:33.6 | But Cotton, that asshole, Senator Cotton managed to do what that asshole Donald Trump |
| 1:39.8 | pointedly couldn't bring himself to do promptly condemn the drooling assholes waving Nazi flags |
| 1:46.1 | who gathered in Charlottesville to unite the Reich, excuse me, unite the right over the weekend. |
| 1:52.4 | Cotton, who never met a racist, in effect, Republican policy he couldn't get behind, managed to condemn |
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