Just…fuck.
An Arizona shock jock who goes by the name of “Jon Justice” has made an effigy of Isabel Garcia, a prominent and widely respected immigrant rights activist, and then proceeded to mock sexually assault the effigy on air, while making racist comments. As Emily said, it’s pretty disgusting - and telling - that his first response was to mock sexually assault the effigy, to try to shut down this woman’s voice through sexual humiliation. He’s got a history of making an ass of himself on air, having been fired from his previous job in Grand Rapids after pretending to drown a dog on air. He’s still in his job, at least for now, although there’s a campaign going to have advertisers pull their money from his show. It’s unbelievably sick that any media organisation would even contemplate letting someone of this scumbag’s ilk stay on air in the wake of an incident like this.
There’s a list of things you can do, with updates on the efforts so far, at the Coalición de Derechos Humanos website. (Thanks to GallingGalla for that)
More (and better) from Latino Politico, WoC PhD, Brownfemipower, Nezua, and Para Justicia y Libertad.
Hi, Rebecca. Thanks for the link.
As to Jon Justice…he pretended to fucking drown a dog before this? So, I see the pattern here: something that he thinks is fucked up happens and so he responds with a stupid, fucked up publicity stunt to match it. How is pretending to drown a dog going to keep little kids from drowning? This guy has a seriously warped sense of judgment.
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