Culture Warriors category archive
Self-Evidence 0
Racists rush to prove that Hank Aaron was right.
The Secesh 0
Gun nuts show their colors.
People’s Rights (and Gay People Are People) (Updated) 4
Wow. Just wow.
The times they are a-changing (though climate change is likely to erase all the changes, but that’s a different post).
That was fast. The co-founder and CEO of Mozilla, Brendan Eich, has decided to step down.
Eich’s decision, announced Thursday, came a few days after the dating website OkCupid started blocking Mozilla’s Firefox browser from accessing the dating site because Eich “is an opponent of equal rights for gay couples.”
Normally, I don’t approve of browser sniffing, but I will make an exception in this case.
As I’ve said before, nothing that ever happened in a same-sex bedroom has affected a marriage of mine.
I cannot say the same for opposite se–oh, never mind.
Afterthought:
Wingnut World is claiming that Eich’s “freedom of speech” has been somehow violated. Seems to me he got to speak all he wanted to.
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.
Also, what the Booman said.
Addendum, That Afternoon:
John Aravosis has an incisive analysis of the wingnut weaction. A nugget:
Twits on Twitter 0
God spake in Elizabethan English.
Missionaries of Hate 0
In the United States’s balance of trade, bigotry is a principle export.
The Wasted Wasteland of Hate 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., comments on the death of Fred Phelps of “God Hates Fags” fame. A nugget:
If God hates anything, surely God hates that.
Unintended Consequences 0
Dick Polman considers the legacy of Fred Phelps and draws a surprising conclusion: that his bigotry and hate-full-ness rebounded against itself. A snippet (emphasis added):
Rebranding 0
A kinder, gentler KKK, my anatomy (emphasis in the orginal).
Misdirection Plays, Welfare Queen Dept. 0
Thom explains:
In a typically long post on the same issue, Chauncey Devega also addresses Republican racist dog whistling. Here’s a snippet:
Paul Ryan and other conservatives can claim that they are innocent of their racist political arson. But, they are repeatedly caught, hiding behind the dumpster, or in the bushes, as the building burns. One hand is busy, down the trousers, working in onanistic fervor as the conflagration spreads. The other hand is concealing a lighter. The police approach, shake their heads, and say “you again!”
Autograph Hounds 0
Chauncey Devega finds the appeal of George Zimmerman’s autograph to be disturbing; I must say, he has a point.
Here’s a snippet–he does not mince words:
Zimmerman’s autograph is a way for his fans and public to idolize him.
Zimmerman’s signed photo is also a way for his supporters to be closer to him, and to “own” part of his “success” and “power”.
The autograph of George Zimmerman, a man who is “famous” only because he stalked, hunted, and killed an unarmed black teenager, is for those who seek it, a validation of their right to kill and murder at will those people that they deem to be the Other and somehow “less than”. The South’s hyper-masculine and racialized norms of honor both legitimate and sustain such logic.
Do read the rest.
“Self-Professed Behavior” 0
That phrase (which, when parsed, turns out to be meaningless but important-sounding jibber-jabber) seems to be the latest wingnut word salad for defending the mistreatment of persons they don’t like.
Via C&L.