Robyn Autry: 'The Jerry Springer Show' was toxic trash. And even Jerry knew it.
." Except it was the mirror inside the funhouse that provides a view that’s so exaggerated and distorted that it’s not real.
Classism, sexism, homophobia and racism are alive and well and a cause for concern, but Springer made a spectacle of those vices and made them laughing matters. Considerwhich featured a chair-throwing brawl between robed and hooded Ku Klux Klan members and Irv Rubin, chairman of the Jewish Defense League.
Or consider episodes like “Transgender Throwdown,” “Transgender Triangles,” or “A Transexual Affair” where a cheating fiancé affair with a transgender woman is exposed before she joins the couple on stage only to be shouted at with disgust and repeatedly asked, “Whatyou?” as the crowd cheers and pumps their fists as if at a sporting match.
Humiliating transgender people was a recurring theme on "Jerry Springer" at a time when public conversations about trans experiences were even harder to come by than they are today.argument culture , which treats conversation as a war between opposing parties. It’s a style of communication that rewards aggression, exposure and attack. It also features highly emotional and divisive rhetoric that makes little sense but stokes fear and anger; purposely offends as a tactic to entertain and to punish dissent. Before such culture took root in legislative chambers, television news interviews and in our everyday public lives, Tannen notes its prominence on talk shows.
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