just keep me where the light is

he constantly made fun of gay men for dying throughout the entire AIDS crisis. it was literally his main running joke. he regularly gave joyful “AIDS updates” while playing a happy love song in the background, and would read off the names of dead gay people while playing whistles and air horns

he was literally the person who popularized the word “feminazi”

article: Rush Limbaugh Says “Rape Police” Left Cares Too Much About Consent + him constantly saying consent isn’t a thing and his whole “no means yes” speech

article: Rush Limbaugh Says the Obamas Need to Get Over Slavery Already

he called BLM a “hate group” and “terrorists”

he compared gay men to pedophiles and said the lgbt movement was also trying to “normalize pedophilia”

he said there are too many black men in sports and that “the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons”

he said champion quarterback donovan mcnabb is “overrated because he’s black”

he made fun of michael j fox for having parkinson’s

he called chelsea clinton a “dog” when she was 12 years old

and all these are just the tip of the iceberg. he was a popular radio host for decades and fed millions of people racism, misogyny, homophobia, etc, and i bet an argument could be made about him being one of the main voices who radicalized the american far-right

the day kurt cobain committed suicide, limbaugh called him “a worthless shred of human debris”

about eric garner’s death: “I CAN breathe, because I follow the law.”

he said white people can’t be blamed for slavery, and that white people were the ones who ended slavery so they should be thanked for that

after a woman, sandra fluke, gave a speech about the importance of birth control for things like ovarian cysts and women’s health: “It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex.” + he said that if women do use birth control, they should be required to “post videos of them having sex online so we can all watch”

he didn’t just make fun of michael j fox’s parkinson’s, he said he was faking it and exaggerating his symptoms

he said coronavirus is just like the common cold, and spent years saying that smoking and secondhand smoke aren’t dangerous

whenever he’d talk about obama, he’d call him by his middle name hussein and said obama is muslim, isn’t an american, and fed into that whole conspiracy constantly

“I think it’s time to get rid of this whole National Basketball Association. Call it the TBA, the Thug Basketball Association, and stop calling them teams. Call ‘em gangs.”

when a black person called in on his show: “Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.”

“ 'Ching cha. Ching chang cho chow. Cha Chow. Ching Cho. Chi ba ba ba. Kwo kwa kwa kee. Cha ga ga. Ching chee chay. Ching zha bo ba. Chang cha. Chang cho chi che. Cha dee. Ooooh chee bada ba. Jee jee cho ba.’ Nobody was translating, but that’s the closest I can get,” he said while “translating” Chinese President Hu Jintao in 2011

“I’m a huge supporter of women. What I’m not is a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose, and feminism has led women astray. I love women. I don’t know where all this got started. I love the women’s movement, especially when walking behind it.”

about beyoncé: “She’s married to a rich guy… She now understands it’s worth it to bow down.”

“When a gay person turns his back on you, it is anything but an insult; it’s an invitation.”

according to rolling stone: “No single person — not Reagan, not Cheney, not McConnell, not Trump, not QAnon — has contributed more than Rush Limbaugh to the mass derangement of white America.”

he constantly made fun of gay men for dying throughout the entire AIDS crisis. it was literally his main running joke. he regularly gave joyful “AIDS updates” while playing a happy love song in the background, and would read off the names of dead gay people while playing whistles and air horns

he was literally the person who popularized the word “feminazi”

article: Rush Limbaugh Says “Rape Police” Left Cares Too Much About Consent + him constantly saying consent isn’t a thing and his whole “no means yes” speech

article: Rush Limbaugh Says the Obamas Need to Get Over Slavery Already

he called BLM a “hate group” and “terrorists”

he compared gay men to pedophiles and said the lgbt movement was also trying to “normalize pedophilia”

he said there are too many black men in sports and that “the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons”

he said champion quarterback donovan mcnabb is “overrated because he’s black”

he made fun of michael j fox for having parkinson’s

he called chelsea clinton a “dog” when she was 12 years old

and all these are just the tip of the iceberg. he was a popular radio host for decades and fed millions of people racism, misogyny, homophobia, etc, and i bet an argument could be made about him being one of the main voices who radicalized the american far-right

the day kurt cobain committed suicide, limbaugh called him “a worthless shred of human debris”

about eric garner’s death: “I CAN breathe, because I follow the law.”

he said white people can’t be blamed for slavery, and that white people were the ones who ended slavery so they should be thanked for that

after a woman, sandra fluke, gave a speech about the importance of birth control for things like ovarian cysts and women’s health: “It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex.” + he said that if women do use birth control, they should be required to “post videos of them having sex online so we can all watch”

he didn’t just make fun of michael j fox’s parkinson’s, he said he was faking it and exaggerating his symptoms

he said coronavirus is just like the common cold, and spent years saying that smoking and secondhand smoke aren’t dangerous

whenever he’d talk about obama, he’d call him by his middle name hussein and said obama is muslim, isn’t an american, and fed into that whole conspiracy constantly

“I think it’s time to get rid of this whole National Basketball Association. Call it the TBA, the Thug Basketball Association, and stop calling them teams. Call ‘em gangs.”

when a black person called in on his show: “Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.”

“ 'Ching cha. Ching chang cho chow. Cha Chow. Ching Cho. Chi ba ba ba. Kwo kwa kwa kee. Cha ga ga. Ching chee chay. Ching zha bo ba. Chang cha. Chang cho chi che. Cha dee. Ooooh chee bada ba. Jee jee cho ba.’ Nobody was translating, but that’s the closest I can get,” he said while “translating” Chinese President Hu Jintao in 2011

“I’m a huge supporter of women. What I’m not is a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose, and feminism has led women astray. I love women. I don’t know where all this got started. I love the women’s movement, especially when walking behind it.”

about beyoncé: “She’s married to a rich guy… She now understands it’s worth it to bow down.”

“When a gay person turns his back on you, it is anything but an insult; it’s an invitation.”

according to rolling stone: “No single person — not Reagan, not Cheney, not McConnell, not Trump, not QAnon — has contributed more than Rush Limbaugh to the mass derangement of white America.”

“I was so glad we did because it turned out that everybody needed a good cry as well as us. It makes you think about life a lot where this moment could affect everything forever.”

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