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⌈ Secret Post #2555 ⌋

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http://www.msnbc.com/hardball/duck-dynasty-star-men-should-marry-teens

"Look, you wait ‘til they get to be 20 years old, the only picking that’s going to take place is your pocket,” he says. “You got to marry these girls when they are about 15 or 16.” Robertson later adds: “You need to check with mom and dad about that, of course.”

I really, really hate that people are still clamoring over this guy. Really? When women become adults we turn into nothing but gold diggers, so marry a fifteen year old girl? I used to be apathetic about this guy, but man do I loathe his brand now.

Ew. That's gross. Wonder what his wife feels about it?

Anyway, I wasn't going to bring these guys up again, but since someone else did: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/20/1264354/-Duck-Dynasty-is-a-Fake-Yuppies-in-Red-Neck-Drag-Con-Job#

His wife already knows, because SHE was 16 and he was 19-20 when they got married.

Ewwwwwww.

To me, it seems less "gross" and more "what is this, 1890?"

Keep in mind that I'm not defending it or anything. Because, you know, it's not 1890. No one has to get hitched and move to some dismal farm as soon as they finish puberty anymore. :P

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I thought he was 16..that's what it says in the OP's article.

*shrug* Could be true. Wikipedia says he was born in 1946 and married in 1966.

is it really news that a dumb redneck is saying stupid shit?

Nope. Who the hell cares? It's just some dumb hillbilly saying things a dumb hillbilly would say.

It's because what he's saying is so very wrong, and he's being rewarded for it. Racism, homophobia, and now statutory rape.

Yeah, statutory rape laws aren't the same in every state, and in many a 15/18 relationship wouldn't be classified as that. So yeah, he's an asshole, but maybe back the rape train up?

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Sadly, he's got a master's degree so he's not exactly dumb. He *is* however, an asshole with massive media coverage and fans who attack anyone who disagrees with the homophobic, racist and generally wrong shit he says.

Dude has a master's in education. He may be a redneck with vile views, but that doesn't make him dumb (unless you're referring to being dumb enough to put his offensive beliefs out into the world).

Yeah, my mom has a master's in education too. She's also very, very tinfoil hat.

Religion makes people dumber.

Eh, not really. It just effects certain people that way.

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"Can".

"can" make people dumber.

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I've also known some really daft/tinhatty people with master's degrees or higher.

Dumb people crop up everywhere, I think. Sometimes, they crop up in grad school.

Well, I wouldn't say religion is the cause though. I'm pretty sure it doesn't say, "Hark, and all women be gold diggers when they reach their twentieth year. And so God spoketh to them and said, "Bitches be trippin', marry those girls when they're ripe for tha' pickin" in the bible. /I'm an Atheist, so, no dog in this fight.

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Ya know, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he either didn't really believe half the stuff he said, or at the very least was only exaggerating his beliefs or how normal/proper he seems to think it is.

Because seriously, reality TV = there really IS no bad publicity. I mean, it still sucks that he's saying these things, getting rewarded for them, and adding this sentiments to the general consciousness. But at the same time, I can't help but wonder if he really is this vile or if he's just playing it up for the money.

It's nice of you to try and give him the benefit of the doubt. What undermines that argument though is the fact that

1) He doesn't just talk the talk, he walks the walk. Meeting your future wife when she's 14 and getting married two years later is exactly what he recommends re: underage girls making the best wives. I don't think it's just lip service.

2) That it's been reported that A&E has actually edited out the more extreme comments he's made, something he acknowledges himself. If they truly felt there was no such thing as bad publicity, there'd be no need to censor him at all... which is what they've been doing for a while.

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nyxelestia - 2014-01-01 08:09 (UTC) - Expand

you know, that wasn't an uncommon thing around the time my grandma was a child (1920s or so)

so, congrats, mr duck dynasty guy, you only have one more century to catch up with the rest of us! \o/

Well, at least now we know why he didn't trot out the whole "homosexuals are pedophiles" thing in addition to what he did say about homosexuality...

idk Who or what this is, but that's pretty gross. D:

I love how people who are jumping on this guy for his bigotry see nothing wrong or ironic in calling him a "hillbilly" or a "redneck" (in the non-affectionate, non-Foxworthy sense, clearly.) But then I'm just trailer trash, who cares what I think?

It's trashy reality television.

You should loathe all of it on principle.

And then stop giving it any more of your time.

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