Jackie Mason: today gays are the persecutors

[shenmue]

Pink News story here

From the article:

In a yet-to-broadcast interview with Aaron Klein Investigative Radio, obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, Mr Mason said: “Before, you couldn’t pick on homosexuals because it was bad taste, because homosexuals were a persecuted minority. Now, it’s exactly the opposite."

[HassleCat]

1. How old?

Isn't Jackie Mason something like 500 years old? I have to look it up. Be right back. Born June 9, 1931. So I guess he's 84 years old. I guess he's expressing some of that resentment that overcomes people when they get old. The world changes, and we don't like it, preferring to remember things as they weren't.

[marym625]

2. I didn't think he was still alive

Wow. He's obviously not living in the here and now

[Warren Stupidity]

3. Vile bigot, never funny

[dhill926]

4. this guy was old when I was young...

and now I'm old. Thought he died years ago. In his case, getting older doesn't necessarily make you wiser...

[joeybee12]

5. I didn't realize he was still alive...has he been conferring with Jerry Seinfeld?

What an asshole.

[4now]

6. He is sounding kind of like Seinfeld

Old comedians have a hard time realizing that their old stuff just isn't funny any more.
So they have to blame the audience.

[Betty Karlson]

9. Indeed. And when was the last time that callous bigotry was just "bad taste"?

Sounds to me like Mr. Mason deplores the dying off of his core audience.

[SusanCalvin]

7. I'm not sure he even knew what he meant to say. nt

[Behind the Aegis]

8. Bigotry.

Many people still think "gay" is still acceptable as the butt of the joke, one only needs to peruse the pages here. He is an example of someone who has refused to grow with the society and is stuck in a time which, thankfully, no longer exists. I am taken back by his comments about how we have taken over the media or whatnot, especially given he is Jewish, which in of itself, gives people license to hate him and share their "outrage" at his homophobia. It just goes to show, no matter the group, no one is immune to the disease that is bigotry.