Oh, heavs forbids we try to protect American kids from being bullied in school … for being perceived as gay! Fox & Friends — a show that, like The O'Reilly Factor, disguises its homophobia by adding question marks to the ends of their commentary — took to Fox News pundit (and axed CNN and MSNBC commentator) Tucker Carlson, who has an entirely misinformed view of how bullying and anti-gay animosity (something taught by parents at home!) come together for brutality.
We applaud school districts for wanting to talk to students, of any age, about the perils of bullying. This sort of preventative measure should be encouraged. But Mr. Carlson this morning tells his enabling host Steve Doocy that he went and checked with the FBI! And they told him they had no evidence of second-graders being tormented with anti-gay epithets. So this mandatory instruction isn't just a way to push the homosexual agenda, it's also pointless!
Except, Mr. Carlson, it isn't.
What these schools are doing is providing a safe environment, early on in children's tenures as students, to discuss what is wrong with hating other boys and girls because they are LGBT, or are perceived as such. We want the same conversations to take place about why it's wrong to pick on the Hispanic kid, and the white girl, as it is the effeminate boy or the butch girl. And then maybe, just maybe, we won't have to deal with this sort of thing.
Tucker: Your advice is for schools to sit back and let students harm each other in horrible ways. It's uninformed rhetoric like yours that spreads misinformation, and leads to years of endless, needless harassment. The very reason we should be having these talks with young kids, sir, is to prevent them from turning into you.
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What about bullying people who wear bow ties? Tucker was always cagey about his real feelings when he was on a real network, but the bow tie always made me suspicious. Nice to know that at the end of the day, gay fashion sense really does speak louder than words.
Tucker Carlson still gets picked on for being teh gay.
Wait-Tucker Carlson said something STUPID? Now there's a shock!
not.
Tucker is a little moron who doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. You have to educate kids at an early age about bullying because if they come from an emotionally,and intellectually-challenged set of straight parents, that poor kid needs all the help they can get. Also goes along with a child's racial attitudes being formed at a young age.
"pushing a world view that some families may or may not agree with?" Tucker please! Why would pointing out Gay families exist and deserve the same rights as other families be controversial? Oh, I forgot, they don't pay the same taxes and they really aren't composed of living, breathing people who care about each other like "normal" families.
Apparently Tucker's parents belonged to the Little Republican School of Raising Little Republican Bastards. You know-"bullying breeds character in kids", "by the time these kids are adults they will have forgotten all about the bullying-after all you have" and "bullying kids is as American as apple pie". No wonder so many kidr are screwed up! Just look at the adults!
If the voters in that school system don't like what the school board has enacted, they can change the school board. Just the sort of thing conservatives believe in. Carlson's faux concern for the children characterizes his phoniness in general. One wonders what the young Mr. Carlson learned about brutalization of school mates at the New England boarding school he attended.
What they are afraid of is….if you tell kids not to pick on people because they seem gay……that the kids will actually find out that gays exist. I think the folks over at this show would rather have that knowledge kept from kids as long as possible. The earlier you meet or know about people different from you the less you will probably hate them later on. Tucker would NOT like that.
Why is Queerty even covering whats going on at Faux News. We already know what their agenda is, the BIGOT AGENDA!
he's not a father,please dont let him be a father……poor kids
It's not a political issue. Don't hide behind politics when it's clearly just bigotry.
@Joanaroo:
How does the old expression go?
"The apple doesn't fall far from the tree!"
The louder these guys shout their innanities, the more laughable they become
Anyone involved with Fox News is bigoted and has no soul.
This is the same Tucker Carlson who labels himself a "libertarian." Despite the fact that REAL libertarians support gay rights and support same-sex equality… Tucker Carlson is part of this new pseudo-liberty movement being held by Ron Paul, Steve Anderson of Phoenix (called for gays to be exterminated), Roy Moore, the Evangelical Agenda, and all these false prophets using freedom as a guise to defend the "right" to hate gay people.
FUCK YOU TUCKER CARLSON.
As for Fox News, this is no surprise. They have always been the Aryan Race network and always shall be. Let's face it, Fox rather see us exterminated than ever treated as human beings.
Fox News: Where your prejudices based on ignorance are validated. *wink*
Fucked Up News is Rupert Murdoch's right-wing pandering shit station.
Rupert has a history of enabling sleaze and homophobia through his publications and media outlets.
If they had something like this when I was in school maybe I would have graduated!!!!!!!!!!! instead of dropping out!!
I was ALWAYS called fruit cake and fag on the playground and it came with me all through high school.
Well Maybe Suker Carlson might ask the kid in my county here in Tampa why 4 of his peers felt it was Ok to Sexually abuse him with broom handels while in Phys Ed? In the locker room and why was this done not because he was Gay it was because he was over weight and thats what you call Bullying!