Posted on 03/03/2019 8:13:40 PM PST by blueplum
Full Title: 'He didn't care what race, gender, sexual orientation you were': John Wayne's son defends his father over homophobic slur he used in 1971 interview which resurfaced
John Wayne’s son says a 1971 Playboy interview in which the famed actor says he ‘believes in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility’ was ‘used out of context.’ Ethan Wayne on Saturday defended his late father, the Oscar-winning star of True Grit and Sands of Iwo Jima, who died of stomach cancer in 1979. John Wayne’s controversial comments about African Americans, homosexuals, and Native Americans in the interview have prompted calls to remove his name from an airport in Santa Ana, California. ‘It would be an injustice to judge someone based on an interview that's being used out of context,’ Ethan Wayne told CNN on Saturday. ‘They're trying to contradict how he lived his life, and how he lived his life was who he was. ‘So, any discussion of removing his name from the airport should include the full picture of the life of John Wayne and not be based on a single outlier interview from half a century ago.’
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“calls to remove his name from an airport in Santa Ana, California.
Interesting. I always thought the airport was in Irvine, CA.”
No, if it were in Irvine it would be call Tan Son Nhut Airport.
One Colombian and two Mexican wives.
Good one..! >_<
The Duke himself has plenty of enemies on FR. He always has. They might be timid to express themselves on this thread but generally they are full-throttle in their dislike.
It’s always whose ox is being gored around here.
I had four idols growing up: GOD, my father, John Wayne, and Charlton Heston.
That is one of the reasons I have so many Blu-rays and DVDs. People can "own" a digital copy of a movie on iTunes or VUDU, or wherever. But what is to stop the multicultural commissars from deciding that some of the films in your digital collection should probably not be seen any longer? While I am not a fan of Blazing Saddles, I should probably buy the Blu-ray before Big Brother tells me I can't.
Those are good choices.
And this is why we have a huge collection of dvds and blu-rays. From my cold dead hands...
If you don’t care about race, that’s racist.
How long before they attempt to erase the Golden Age of Hollywood by shutting down or severely curbing the programming of Turner Classic Movies?
I also remember the people on this site who joined hands with the Obama administration in pushing to take Andrew Jackson off the $20 and replacing him with Harriet Tubman. I told those morons that if you're in favor of that, don't be surprised when your liberal allies take this as license to replace George Washington with Malcolm X on dollar bills and monuments.
Even if you personally have no stake in Confederate monuments or Andrew Jackson's legacy, you should oppose the Left's attempts to erase history in the name of political correctness at every turn, because if you give them an inch, they'll take a mile. This means that sooner or later, it will be your ox who gets gored by Social Justice Warriors rather than your pro-Confederacy neighbor's.
Hi FRiend! Cracking post as usual.
I’m not pro confederacy
I’m anti demeaning my region and ancestry
The secession ship has long since sailed
An old freeper who once posted here whom I admired
Goetz von Berlichigen
He left oppposing the Iraq war
He was right btw in hindsight
He said it’s not about slavery or making blacks happy
It’s the left using politics to force their power and will over us
He was right
Pity so many on our side go along
White southerners are the most reliable enemies of the left
Which is why they have always targeted us
Yes there are many nuances to different manifestations of their fantasies. Yes there are demagogues who exploit the fantasies in the pursuit of power; but at the core of the tactics is a recognition that there are people who have a compulsive need to blame someone else for their frustrations; others with a compulsive need to believe that you can socially engineer an answer to realities which dictate that people will never be interchangeable.
That they will never achieve at the same level; that instead of denying the reality that we are all different, we would do much better studying the realities of those differences. We are all far better off if we--each in a unique way--understand how best to use the nature we have been dealt, and take personal responsibility for our own lives.
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“I also remember the people on this site who joined hands with the Obama administration in pushing to take Andrew Jackson off the $20 and replacing him with Harriet Tubman.”
Dinesh D’Souza is one who has been trashing Andrew Jackson for years.
He’s willing to play Useful Idiot for the Left’s war on America’s past if it will put a buck in his pocket.
Jackson and Van Buren founded the Democratic party and Andrew Jackson was the first Democrat President.
Attacking Jackson is part of D’Souza’s “Democrats have always been the party of Satan” shtick that he’s been using to milk cash from gullible Republicans who don’t know enough history to see what Dinesh is doing.
I think there's more to it than a buck in his pocket. D'Souza is a neoconservative, which means that he's loyal to a different political party than most liberals and probably wants lower taxes and a more aggressive foreign policy than many Democrats, but he agrees with Democrats on fundamental issues and shares the basic values and core assumptions that animate liberals.
Jackson and Van Buren founded the Democratic party and Andrew Jackson was the first Democrat President.
In name, yes. But in practice, Thomas Jefferson was both the founder of the Democratic Party (Democratic-Republicans became Democrats) and its first President. The Republican genealogy is Federalist-Whig-Republican, so I similarly consider Adams, not Lincoln, to be the first Republican President.
Attacking Jackson is part of D’Souza’s “Democrats have always been the party of Satan” shtick that he’s been using to milk cash from gullible Republicans who don’t know enough history to see what Dinesh is doing.
I'm glad someone here can see this. Pro-multiculturalism establishment Republicans use the excuse that Jackson (and Confederates) were "Democrats" as a fig leaf to side with the Left's attacks on them, when party affiliation isn't what this is all about. People are so conditioned to think in terms of party name and loyalty that they completely ignore the fact that the issues that defined Democrats vs. Republicans 150+ years ago have absolutely nothing to do with those defining them today (e.g. there was no welfare state back then, so there was no party to be for or against it). Nothing seems to erase critical thinking skills like party identification and loyalty, and D'Souza and friends, conniving little sleazes that they are, know how to milk that for what it's worth.
That was very well said.
Dinesh is definitely a neoconservative. And like most of that persuasion he spends time nudging conservatives into accepting the premises of the cultural left without them realizing it.
” Thomas Jefferson was both the founder of the Democratic Party (Democratic-Republicans became Democrats) and its first President.”
That’s not entirely accurate, although it’s probably gained currency because the of Democrat’s annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner.
In fact the D-R’s are the source of both the Democrats and the Whigs. For example John Quincy Adams was elected President as a D-R in 1824, and then in the 1830s became a Whig. He wasn’t alone in being a former D-R Whig.
I agree that there is a philosophical continuum between the Federalists and Whigs and Republicans. But the Democrat-Republicans of 1800-1828 were an odd animal that managed to give birth to both the Democrats and the Whigs.
“Nothing seems to erase critical thinking skills like party identification and loyalty, and D’Souza and friends, conniving little sleazes that they are, know how to milk that for what it’s worth.”
Hear! Hear!
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