Comments on: Rut like rabbits? Backtrack like crazy! https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/04/06/rut-like-rabbits-backtrack-like-crazy/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Thu, 31 May 2018 01:01:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: David Blakeslee https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/04/06/rut-like-rabbits-backtrack-like-crazy/#comment-95571 Thu, 31 May 2018 01:01:42 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=8939#comment-95571 Warren,

I have been pretty surprised that his supremacist on Native Americans did not get more outrage.

I am not surprised…thinking European ethnocentricism combined with the general “tune out” which occurs when people ‘demand outrage,’ which is too often a political tool, or defended against with the rhetorical tool: “…yeah, but the other guys…”
Calloused, numb and resentful, the politically minded march on behind their standard bearers.

]]> By: David Blakeslee https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/04/06/rut-like-rabbits-backtrack-like-crazy/#comment-95520 Thu, 31 May 2018 00:34:22 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=8939#comment-95520 Hey, my daughter had a rabbit. Moses.
“I am very offended by Fisher’s comments about the sexual behavior of rabbits,” Moses said.

]]> By: Will https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/04/06/rut-like-rabbits-backtrack-like-crazy/#comment-94004 Wed, 30 May 2018 21:07:42 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=8939#comment-94004 Backtrack? Where or when? He used the phrase ‘rut like rabbits,’ then changed it to ‘engage in random and reckless promiscuity.’ Where’s the backtrack? They say the same thing. Warren & commenters here sound like he changed his tune, but I’d say he was more explicit.
A couple comments sound like the rest of his ‘backtrack’ comment was a backtrack from an assumed African Americans to ‘Caucasian, Hispanic, or African-American.’ When I looked at the context, he was talking about welfare (used by ‘Caucasian, Hispanic, [and] African-American’) people; so on that part I’ll have to admit the change wasn’t a backtrack either, but wasn’t what I first thought when I first saw people upset by what he said.
But he did NOT backtrack on rut like rabbits: he was even more explicit. So why do you think he backtracked? What am I missing here?

]]> By: David Blakeslee https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/04/06/rut-like-rabbits-backtrack-like-crazy/#comment-93834 Wed, 30 May 2018 21:01:04 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=8939#comment-93834 I think the comparison with Louis Farrakhan (sp) has validity.

]]> By: Timothy Kincaid https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/04/06/rut-like-rabbits-backtrack-like-crazy/#comment-93832 Wed, 30 May 2018 21:01:02 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=8939#comment-93832 Fascinating…
Not that Fischer has the views that he expressed, but that he retracted them. I think this may be the only time (certainly that I recall) he has ever walked away from one of his rants.
Perhaps he has recognized that it is unChristlike to accuse African-Americans of rutting like rabbits. Or maybe this is a reflection of the where his listeners and readers draw the line.
Either way, it’s nice to know there are limits.

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