Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said on Thursday that he regrets using the phrase “idiot inner city kids” while discussing education during a Monday radio interview, the Washington Post reported.
The senator joined 1310 WIBA–Milwaukee on Monday to discuss school choice, where he lamented that liberal politicians send their children to private school while pushing against school choice initiatives.
“It’s unbelievable to me that liberals, that President Obama, of course he sends his children to private school, as did Al Gore, and Bill Clinton and every other celebrated liberal,” Johnson said. “They just don’t want to let those idiot inner city kids that they purport to be so supportive of…they just don’t want to give them the same opportunity their own kids have. I think it’s disgraceful.”
Johnson then told the Post on Thursday that he was being sarcastic and trying to express how liberals think of inner city youth.
“Obviously I am a huge supporter of school choice, it infuriates me that these young inner city kids are trapped in poverty,” he said. “I was being, that quote is, I’m being very sarcastic in that’s how liberals view these underprivileged kids. That is not my viewpoint in any way.”
But he told the Post that he realized how bad the phrase “idiot inner city kids” sounded during the radio interview.
“It wasn’t the best word,” he said. “Trust me I wish I would not have said that. That’s not what I mean.”
Yet still no apology for the dic-pic he sent Nancy Pelosi. Geez…
More “repeal and replace.” “we need to repeal public education and replace it with anti-science, religio-fascist indoctrination at Christian run private schools via voucher programs.” Just look at what Booby Jingle has done in LA with the vouchers. There’s schools on the accepted voucher list in LA that teach shit like “the Loch Ness monster is strong evidence that current theories regarding the dinosaurs are wrong and that man and dinosaurs did indeed share the Earth with one another 6,00 years ago.” Fuck this dillhole and the rest of them. The point is that the public school system needs funding and needs fixing, not that we should just throw it out with the bathwater because a bunch of shitstains who own gold-plated toilets want the public kept stupid, misinformed and compliant.
I am sick and tired of republicans trying to use AAs in their never ending goal of cutting public education funding or even doing away with public schools altogether in saying democrats being against school choice is trying to stop poor inner AA children from getting educated. What is hurting inner city schools is that politicians like Johnson are taking away money from schools to give to for profit education who pay and treat their teachers like crap.
“I was being, that quote is, I’m being very sarcastic in that’s how liberals view these underprivileged kids. That is not my viewpoint in any way.”
Hmm. Trying to remember when I’ve heard liberals say anything remotely like that. Oh, wait — NEVER!
Of course. The expression of blatant racism is Trump’s job in this campaign. The other Republicans must be more circumspect.