Just when you think you've heard the most ignorant and offensive right wing comment, think again. While a recent comment, on Neil Cavuto's show, wasn't on a par with the infamous rape comments made by two failed GOP senatorial candidates, it certainly is right up there in the GOP Hall of Shame. Last Friday, Cavuto and Michelle Fields discussed a new Chicago sex-ed program that will provide age appropriate information for kindergartners, including what constitutes "bad touch." (*Fields is the GOP's newest hot, young thing whose main cred is that she hosts an internet show with the former congressman Allen West) Cavuto and Fields were appalled by the curriculum which is intended to protect kids against sexual predators - not, as claimed by Cavuto, to make students "sexually savvy." Fields used her face time to denigrate the Chicago public ("government") school system. She also suggested that, rather than teach "disgusting" sex-ed, Chicago schools teach the kids, many of them living in violent neighborhoods, how to shoot a gun!
After a litany of stats about the poor academic performance of Chicago students, Fields, a 2011 Pepperdine political science grad, provided some amazing advice for the Chicago school system which was straight out of right wing bizarro world. Ready for it - here it is:
"If they want to teach them something else, unrelated to core subjects like science, reading, and math, how bout teaching them how to use a gun, so that perhaps they can see their 18th birthday and maybe survive in Chicago."
While Fields seems to be cognizant of the educational inadequacies of the Chicago school system, she also appears to be oblivious to the problem of urban gang violence which has taken the lives of many Chicago young people. Does Fields actually think that adding more shooters into poor, violent Chicago neighborhoods is in any way constructive? Given the level of gun violence, it appears that the problem isn't that inner city youth don't know how to shoot. An "average of 16 kids under the age of 24 are murdered every day in the United States, mostly by guns and many in gang violence" and Michelle Fields thinks that high school students need to be taught how to shoot? Really?
Hadiya Pendleton, a Chicago student who performed at President Obama's inauguration, didn't live to see her 18th birthday, not because she didn't know how to shoot, but because she was mistakenly gunned down in what appears to be gang related violence. But Michelle Fields thinks that the proper use of a gun will help future Hadiya's.
Ignorant, Offensive, Ya Think?
The Fields quote starts after the two minute mark.
*She was reportedly fired from Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller for "lack of productivity."
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