Rush Limbaugh publicly licensed Abu Ghraib abuse as masculine release

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I’m talking about people having a good time, these people [US guards, military police, and contractual interrogators at Abu Ghraib], you ever heard of emotional release? You heard of the need to blow some steam off? … I think a lot of the American culture is being feminized. I think the reaction to the stupid torture is an example of the feminization of this country… . It could well be that the whole purpose here, which has been said, was to humiliate these prisoners. And there’s no better way of doing it than what was done. These are Arab males – what better way to humiliate them than to have a woman have authority over them? What’s the purpose here? What’s the objective of this? The objective is to soften them up for interrogation later, later on. As I said, there was no horror, there was no terror, there was no death, there was no injuries [sic], nothing. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 266

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• SHARE: Worth sending to anyone who studies how right-wing talk radio normalizes torture — Limbaugh explicitly framing abuse of Arab male prisoners by women as ‘feminization’ backlash and ‘emotional release.’