1. This article doesn't mention it, but the phrase Dana Loesch used--curbstomping--was made famous by an infamous and graphically violent scene in the movie American History X where the white supremacist main character curbstomps a black youth.
independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
2. Curbstomping is a type of usually deadly violence in which the attacker(s) place the victim's open mouth against a concrete curb or other similarly sold surface, then stomp the back of the victim's skull, thus driving the curb into the skull with the force of the impact.
3. Curbstomping is associated primarily w/white supremacy. I once testified as an expert witness in a curbstomping murder trial related to an incident where four racist skinheads in Tacoma curbstomped a homeless man to death so that one of them could "earn" red shoelaces.
4. The earliest curbstomping incident I've been able to identify is a 1992 incident in Vancouver, Canada.
Curbstomping is also known as "biting the curb" & "eating the curb."
Curbstomping is sick, brutal violence & I can't imagine a normal person would wish it on anyone.
Curbstomping is also known as "biting the curb" & "eating the curb."
Curbstomping is sick, brutal violence & I can't imagine a normal person would wish it on anyone.
5. The full clip, as opposed to the shorter version shown in this article, makes it seem as if Loesch was calling for a figurative curbstomping of the media rather than a literal curbstomping--but imagine for a second if she were calling for a figurative "lynching" of the media &
6. you will quickly see how her use of such over-the-top violent language is still really problematic. Wishing a rhetorical curbstomping on someone is, I suppose, better than wishing a literal one on someone, but it is still pretty unconscionable, in my personal opinion. YMMV.
