January 21, 2004
Cho moves on
Margaret Cho got a bunch of right wing hate mail after Matt Drudge published some out of context quotes from her appearance at the MoveOn.org awards.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff" To: margaret@margaretcho.com Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 5:26 AM Subject: Go HomeThere is a reason your once large fan following has
dwindled down to a fraction of what it once was.
Please go back to your native land your overweight,
fisting lesbian. America has no room for your kind of
intolerant hate-spreading. Why don't YOU fucking
apply yourself? You might find a better world that
has always existed without the rage which fills your
obsese veins.
This is actually one of the tamer ones. The website listed above published the hate mail, and the senders have been inundated with responses from supporters of Margeret. Some of them have even apologized. Here’s Margaret with a very reasoned response to one of the letter writers:
Or would you only prefer to see all non - liberals, non-democratic party members rounded up and executed?No. I would like to see them educated, on their own terms, with whatever they might need, an overhead projector, flashcards, crayons, markers that smell like fruit, rubber cement, #2 pencils - all that. I would give them all the finger paint and avocado seeds that they could sprout on the windowsill so they could learn something about the way things grow, then maybe bumping them up a grade, and then s-l-o-w-l-y having the idea introduced that maybe it would be possible we could actually allow for the separation of church and state, to live in the country that this is supposed to be, you know, that land of the free, home of the brave - all that shit.
Her post is much longer than this little excerpt, and much better in context. Follow the link!
