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Entry: Cowards, Bullies, and Killers Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/cowards_bullies_and_killers#1069 Post contents: Let's see, the writer argues: "Given the subversion of masculinity, it’s unsurprising that the emasculated, homosexualized man evolved concomitantly with the phony tough guy. His exemplars are Imus and other radio blowhards such as the increasingly popular neoconservative, Mark Levin. Levin... incessantly berates his guests in particularly sophomoric terms, such as “moron,” “jerk” and “idiot.” But when it comes to Audie Murphy's friends, ethnic slurs are implicitly praised: "“So about five minutes later,” a friend of Murphy’s told Graham, “here comes a big Dago guy about two hundred and something pounds and he says, ‘Hey, next time my wife ever comes here again and you make eyes at her ..." So we learn that to Kirkwood, "jerk" is a bad word, and "Dago" is a good word. Come on, let's move beyond this tendentious label-splitting, and just support a slur-free society. Sent at: 2008 10 07