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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Homo / Mailbag Get Your Prop 8 Signs Back Out

Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:23 AM

An email from someone at Rainy Dawg Radio (UW's college radio station):

UW students appreciated your response to John Fay's article in The Daily last week. Students have organized Students for a Hate Free Daily and are hosting a rally Friday at 12:30pm on the HUB lawn. We don't want this to go unnoitced and would appreciate your support. Thanks.

Friday. Noon-thirty. HUB lawn. Write it down. (Pointless aside: I seem to remember almost strangling the entire staff of a College Republicans booth on that very lawn once...)

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I can't wait for him to write about the horrors of the liberal campus media.

Posted by Cinnamon Society Blues on December 3, 2008 at 8:35 AM

I sincerely hope SfaHFD are protesting something beyond this kid's article. The whole point of going to college is to get exposed to a broader intellectual universe than your backyard/bellbutton. I happen to think that Fay is a douchebag, but the proper response to ignorant speech is enlightened speech.

Posted by Big Sven on December 3, 2008 at 8:49 AM

Sven, shuttup you fatty you never even went to college.

college is also about getting all riled up about stuff.

Posted by be seen on December 3, 2008 at 8:53 AM

"be seen," I've never heard of you before. Perhaps if you posted under your normal pen name, I would take your ad hominems more seriously. But probably not.

Posted by Big Sven on December 3, 2008 at 9:03 AM

i've found that college republicans are generally the most ignorant of republicans.

Posted by jameyb on December 3, 2008 at 9:04 AM

"Almost strangled?"
So you only strangled them a little bit?

Posted by flamingbanjo on December 3, 2008 at 9:24 AM

If I had a nickel for every time I wanted to strangle a college republican on the HUB lawn...

Posted by boxofbirds on December 3, 2008 at 9:32 AM

@2, As far as I know, they're protesting irresponsible journalism. The group says they want to encourage dialogue, but want the Daily to present an intelligent counterpoint to their view. I think it's less about the sentiment, more about the misquoting of the constitution, thinly disguised hate speech, oh yeah, and the graphic implying homosexuality=bestiality.

Posted by Lara on December 3, 2008 at 9:44 AM

@8, is there any counterpoint against homosexuality that is actually intelligent? Or anything they would actually consider intelligent? "Irresponsible journalism" seems to be "opinions I disagree with" most of the time. We should be attacking Fay's hateful opinions and beliefs, not the paper itself.

Posted by Chris A. on December 3, 2008 at 12:18 PM

@9 Amen.

A shitty article is just that, and harassing a bunch of student journalists isn't the answer. When it comes down to it, this was an editorial. The answer might for UW students to write letters and editorials back. But protesting?

Posted by James B. on December 3, 2008 at 2:03 PM

Maybe this has already been suggested somewhere (not necessarily on Slog), I don't check Slog every day: Could the illustration accompanying Fay's editorial be a dig at Fay? I wonder if illustrations AS WELL AS EDITORIALS (and everything else in the Daily) are reviewed before going to press. I don't know if Fay knew what, if any, illustration was going to be used next to his article. Who drew the illustration?

Posted by hey hey on December 3, 2008 at 5:21 PM

A gay guy did.

Posted by Kyle on December 3, 2008 at 7:42 PM

well, an LGBT person.

Posted by Kyle on December 3, 2008 at 7:42 PM