Dennis Kucinich and Larry Flynt–Unfortunate Bedfellows
Dagnabit, I just hate it when someone I truly admire does something utterly slimey. While I admire much of what Dennis Kucinich stands for, WTF is he doing taking money from Hustler publisher Larry Flynt??? In a piece on The Huffington Post, Jackson Katz reports,
“Larry Flynt last month co-hosted a fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich in Los Angeles. Kucinich and his wife, Elizabeth, joined Flynt and a number of other left-leaning Hollywood celebrities at a dinner November 16 at the headquarters of Larry Flynt Publications.”
I can’t say it any better than the way Katz framed the issue:
“If you truly believe the radical notion that women’s civil and human rights are every bit as important as men’s, then put your behavior where your rhetoric is. You can’t say you’re committed to the struggle for non-violence and human dignity while actively perpetuating the subordination and degradation of women. You can’t publicly claim to be for social justice and privately continue to treat women like second-class citizens. Quite simply, you can’t claim to be a leader of the progressive wing of the Democratic party if you align yourself with Larry Flynt.”
Read the rest of this piece on Huffington, it is an excellent critique of this unfortunate reality check that liberal and liberated are not the same thing.
“It is willfully naïve for any self-respecting “progressive” to dismiss Flynt’s pornography as harmless “adult” entertainment. How can it be considered harmless to consistently portray women and girls in a sexually demeaning and degrading manner? Flynt hasn’t built his porn publishing empire in a vacuum.”
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