Yes, I thought Rush was funny in the 90’s, when I was younger and sheltered from the reality that women, minorities, LGBTQ, etc. face on a daily basis. Rush has always been an asshat. He seemed funnier to conservatives back then because his asshattery was more original. Which is exactly my point: once his brand of asshattery became normalized (due to his own efforts), he seemed stale.
It’s ok to look back at that time and realize (as I do) that you thought Rush was funny because you were also a bit of an asshat yourself back then. Not because Rush was somehow better back then.
Good post.
Until I went to Champaign, I had known two African American people and one jewish person in my life. Note, I didn't use the term African American, I probably said "black" but I can say for certain that the N word left my lips unironically even if not maliciously. I presumably knew plenty of LGBT people but they were closeted and for good reason, and anyone suspected of being gay would be mocked. We had a large latino population and the terms beaner and spic were used like the N word in the old south.
Boulder is an interesting place, it's a "liberal bastion" but unbelievably homogenous (no Latinos in Boulder, they were redlined to certain areas of Longmont). I used to say that Boulder's liberalism was "never put to the test", now I'm old enough to know that's a horseshit take, it's not a test.
So yeah, a lot of Rush' takes in the 90's I could laugh at like a racist joke I didn't understand how racist it was. But I grew out of that pretty damn quick. He was an asshole, period.
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