A parade of Foxaganda's sexism from Media Matters:
On the 95th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, Media Matters looks back at Fox News' many displays of sexism, ranging from hosts suggesting young women should not exercise civic duties like participating in jury duty because they "don't get it," to Erick Erickson's claim that "the male typically is the dominant role."
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2014—Dallas deputy chief: The militarization of the police isn't the problem, it's the color scheme:
The problem, Dallas Deputy Police Chief Malik Aziz told Fox News this weekend, isn't the fact that local cops are weaponized to the hilt, beyond what troops in actual war zones have. It's that the people in these towns perceive that the cops are an occupying force. He says there's a simple fix: paint the tanks blue. No, really.
Aziz added that “most times it looks like a war zone because they haven't painted" equipment like armored vehicles and tanks.
"They're still military colors," he remarked. "Maybe if they were black or blue, it would change the perception of it. But rolling it out and an unnecessary time, that brings unwanted attention to it, and we're going to have to be smarter because some of the equipment is needed."
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And maybe they could make the tear gas smell like baby powder. Or paint their bullets. Just think how much less Michael Brown would be dead if they used pink bullets.
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