To me however, it does show the blatant hypocrisy of the right wing.
Remember in November of last year when Proposition 8 was passed? Remember how angry we lgbts got? Remember how we protested across the country?
While some of us went too far in our anger, the point is that it was a genuine outcry of rage. It was a genuine protest from a group of people who had been stepped on for too long.
Unlike this mess happening now in which the majority are white folks who are programmed by right wing groups with "talking points" or bombthrowers like Glenn Beck or Michelle Malkin (the proverbial child playing matches). And their guilliblity is made easy because they are too afraid to realize that their anger is not with the health care but with their inability to admit that they just don't like "THAT NEEEGROOOO" as president.
Think about it. When they shout and cry at meetings about "how they want their country back," they aren't referring to health care costs or single payer options.
And speaking of Malkin, remember how she wept and cried with pseudo disgust over us "gay bullies" who supposedly attacked people via protests and boycotts? Remember how Mike Huckabee told only one side to the Phyllis Burgess incident (i.e. the anti-gay protester who was pushed and her stryofoam cross taken from her after she elbowed her way through crowd of anti-Proposition 8 protestors so that she could get on camera). Remember how the religious right portrayed the lgbt community on the whole as thugs who were allegedly threatening people, vandalizing churches, and shouting people down?
Well either I am in the Twilight Zone or there has been a shift. Malkin now approves of shouting people down and religious right groups are encouraging folks to show up at these town hall forums.
While Malkin specifically was quick to shine a very bright light on the excesses of the Proposition 8 protests, she is trying to downplay just how nasty these "tea bag" protestors are acting at these health care forums.
Apparently protesting in anger is only wrong when gay folks do it. When lemmings do it at health care forums, it's "democracy in action."
Yet another way us lgbts are looked at as second class citizens.
I was just thinking about that the other night. By and large the Prop 8 protests were organized for that purpose--often with permits--and took place outdoors. LGBT people didn't invade town meetings and disrupt them as have these individuals.
ReplyDeleteBut as usual anything they do is "democracy" or "freedom fighting" whereas we're just "tantruming" or being plain old lawless.
I disagree with your assessment. Democrats are trying to pass a huge health care bill through congress and no one really knows how it will truly impact the average person on the street. Sometimes less government is better. I would suggest that you read Charles Krauthammer's opinion piece in today's Washington Post.
ReplyDeleteMy assessment has less to do with the bill and more about the responses to the bill. If there is disagreement, it should be done in a mature manner. Also, some of the same folks spurring these folks on are the same ones who condemn lgbts for our Proposition 8 protests.
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