The whole thing is silly in the first place.
"TV station hires pet rednecks to star in a show about rednecks, are shocked, shocked when said rednecks turn out to, in fact, be rednecks."
Yeah, that's certainly the meme, but it's fucking stupid. It's 2013. Being a "redneck" doesn't excuse being a racist homophobe on a national stage.
Right, but what the meme gets right is that the fault lies with A&E for giving these guys a national audience more so than it lies with irredeemable rednecks having irredeemable viewpoints.
No matter how amazing your society, there will always be idiots with stupid viewpoints. The point is to marginalize those views, not romanticize them publically.
Precisely.
Remember when ESPN hired Rush Limbaugh and then acted shocked when he immediately said something racist? Rush Limbaugh?
By all means A&E should marginalize people whose views are abhorrent to a civilized society.
You know what a good way of doing that is? Not giving them a fucking TV show in the first place.
I'm certainly not sad to see him kicked off TV. But anyone who claims surprise that this is his viewpoint is stupid, lying, or both, including and especially the people who gave him a TV show and then banned him from it.