The original group trying to play victim here was A&E executives.
A&E has made millions off a show depicting real life "rednecks." Anyone who has watched even one commercial can see that the network's intent was to highlight how "backwoods" and "unsophisticated" these people supposedly are.
So, now, one of the very people they hired precisely because they wanted stupid rednecks says something consistent with the views many rednecks and now the network suddenly decides that kind of behavior is unacceptable?
I call b.s.
If they think giving that kind of a person a platform is wrong, then stop profiting from the show in the first place.
