John Mangopoulos is a rightwing extremist andalt-right activist from Lansing, Michigan, who currently hosts the show “Battle of Ideas”and once ran for U.S. Congress against Debbie Stabenow and Susan GrimesMunsell; Mangopoulos was endorsed by theReform Party.
He is probably most famous as amen’s rights activist who claims that divorce is the “number one”problem facing America, a problem he blames on women and the government –divorce is “government subsidizing womento break up families”. He dismisses accusations of “domestic violence” as alegal tool routinely used by corrupt lawyers and social workers to ensure thatcustody is awarded to women; with regard to domestic violence, women lie about97 percent of the time, says Mangopoulos, relyingprimarily on his own ass as source for the figure.By contrast, women are apparently safest when they are married with a family,and single mothers are committing child abuse, partially because “9 out every 10 single American women aresluts.” According to Mangopoulos, the definition of “date rape” is “whore’s remorse.”
Another group that commits child abuse isthe gays, and Mangopoulosclaims that homosexuals account for nearly half of all molestations even though homosexualsthemselves make up roughly 2 percent of the population. This is … not correct.He has even coined a word, “homonausia”,which expresses the “true feelings ofnormal people toward homosexuality and homosexualism,” since to bigotedlunatics like Mangopoulos it is inconceivable that other people may be lessbigoted than himself without having mental health problems.Here is Mangopoulos thanking God for sending Katrina to New Orleans to get rid ofthe gays, and claiming that the people of New Orleans are lucky he’s not God,since he would have done far more than sending a simple hurricane.
Mangopoulos has also long been firmlyopposed to public schools, which he claims are nothing but anti-christianliberal propaganda factories – he refers, for instance, to Michigan StateUniversity as “Michigan State Perversity.”
He also brags about having been engagedwith imaginary bogeymen inthe imaginary war on Christmas long before “O’Reilly made it fashionable”.Mangopoulos likes to emphasize the inclusivity of Christmas celebrations ascompared to the exclusivity of Kwanzaa, which he calls a phony, made up,“holiday” and the antithesis to Christmas. The main reason Christmascelebrations are more inclusive is becausehelikes Christmas celebrations and has no interest in any alternatives, thereforethey exclude him. He has offered Merry Christmas greetings to Jews, Muslims,and others to make his point, which surely offends them very deeply (evenbeyond the rather obvious fact that Mangopoulos isn’t really wishing them merryanything, of course).
Trivia: On his youtube videos, commentersregularly mistake him for Stephen Colbert’s impersonation of rightwing crazies(Mangopoulos sort of does look a bit like Colbert), making the comment sectionsmildly amusing. Indeed, since the idea was raised, I am not completely suremyself that Mangopoulos isn’t just a Colbert persona.
Diagnosis: With the small caveat that hemight be a poe, Mangopoulos is definitely one of the most furiously confused,bigoted religious extremists in the US. He seems to be pretty obscure, however.
Not a Colbert persona, Mangopoulos is very real & has been a true parasite here in lansing since the mid 90s. The worst part is, he has a following.
ReplyDeleteThe great thing about John is that he's not afraid to speak the truth, political correctness be damned.
ReplyDeleteWhen did he ever speak the truth? He is an extremist clown.
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