Reply #29: There are a lot of issues toward which he (Flynt) has progressive attitude [View All]

When White Males Attack:
Larry Flynt, Racism and The Left
Copyright © 2005, Jennifer McLure, All rights reserved.

by Jennifer McLune

There are a lot of issues toward which he (Larry Flynt) has progressive attitudes (Black women were naked and spread-eagled in Hustler long before they were in Playboy.)" --"Carly-Sue”

The above quote, taken from the message board of a young hip feminist magazine, reveals how effective Flynt has been at becoming in the minds of many progressive folk an anti-racist. This image of him as progressive on race appears in spite of Hustler's long history of racist caricatures of Black people, people of color, and Jews.

One of his most recent viscously racist assaults has been on Aura Bogado, a Latina Feminist and Free Speech Radio News anchor at KPFK. In her article “Hustling the Left”, she exposes the war declared on her when a personal email ended up in the hands of Hustler editors in which she stood up to Larry Flynt and challenged The Left to look critically at building coalitions with pornographers.

Larry Flynt has been quite successful at positioning himself as a progressive media mogul rebelling through an empire of smut in the interests of American Democracy. He takes pride in exposing right wingers for the hypocrites they are and heralding the righteousness of "healthy heterosexual American male sexuality." However, the image of Larry Flynt as progressive on issues of race in light of Hustler's attacks on Aura Bogado, its long history of racist caricatures, and the very idea that showing naked Black bodies for pornographic consumption is a new and revolutionary act must be analyzed and uprooted....

(warning - there are images "reprinted from... Hustler as an act of political protest")
http://www.hustlingtheleft.com/mclune.html