Rush Limbaugh is at it again. The conservative radio host surely seethed with indignation as he watched every decent-minded human being around him express outrage at a video of fraternity brothers chanting racist lyrics. On Wednesday, he finally spoke up.
The problem wasn’t the words that the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) brothers were chanting, Limbaugh claims. It was the fact that these University of Oklahoma students were white—which sounds reasonable until you hear what he actually said.
In Limbaugh’s mind, Kanye West could get away with similarly vile stuff, so critics of SAE are being hypocritical.
It’s true that black musicians and comedians have been repurposing “the N word” for quite a while. That’s fine. But that’s clearly NOT what the frat boys are SAE were doing.