Cartoon in a coalmine
Feb. 26th, 2004 12:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avramMike Luckovitch sums up the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment in one simple, effective image.
Andrew Sullivan’s been passing on email he’s been getting on the FMA matter. Here’s an interesting thought:
Andrew Sullivan’s been passing on email he’s been getting on the FMA matter. Here’s an interesting thought:
Jews used to be the canary people. Jews still play that role but today, even more so, that role is played by gays. You can judge a party or a leader by how he treats this group, the one group it is still safe to hate in America.
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Date: 2004-02-26 05:53 am (UTC)A point I saw raised several years ago is that many of the common antisemitic stereotypes have been recycled to be used against gays.
Gays/Jews are wealthier, better educated, have a covert agenda to subvert mainstream Xian society, control the media, are sexually exotic, have nefarious plans to kill or corrupt Xian children... I forget the whole list, but they're strikingly similar.
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Date: 2004-02-26 06:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-26 06:14 am (UTC)Gays are getting an odd mix. It’s mostly the over-intellectual, but they can get the sex bits from either template, and be portrayed as sexually inadequate (the men are effeminate, the women unattractive) or as hyper-sexual (the men have ten different partners a night and want to rape your children, the women, well, most straight men don’t mind thinking about attractive lesbians).
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Date: 2004-02-26 11:55 am (UTC)And of course, our canary status is still unchanged. It's been a long time in America since a major motion picture could propagate the deicide charge and still be so widely accepted.
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Date: 2004-02-26 12:59 pm (UTC)Other more reliable evidence including census data do not support any such difference.
[Oh, and look! while I was trying to find the source of that myth, I came across a list of similarities between anti-Jewish & anti-gay rhetoric...]
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Date: 2004-02-26 01:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-26 06:49 pm (UTC)Anyway, I finally found Badgett's paper. Badgett doesn't provide as much information as he should (I'd like to see a more detailed description of his model), but it looks basically sound. So I'll concede the argument.
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Date: 2004-02-26 06:53 pm (UTC)Sorry. I'm normally insanely rigorous about providing sources (to the point that I sometimes take longer to find authorities to reference than the actual writing) but I posted this before leaving for work and was under a time crunch.
In the future, if you feel I haven't supported my arguments sufficiently, you're free to challenge me to back them up. [I believe burden of proof generally falls upon the person making the claim.]
Sorry for any inconvenience.
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Date: 2004-02-26 07:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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