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Homo / Media American Hate: Then and Now
Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:17 PM
In a post titled "Our Classy History," Armagideon Time published a real letter that a real human being sent to Life Magazine on the topic of interracial marriage:
So what I'm wondering is: Is it progress that our most ignorant, small-minded citizens are no longer threatening murder-suicide in national publications, and that they choose to wear their awful, ignorant homophobic sentiments on t-shirts and wear them to Wal-Mart instead?
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Is it progress that there's less tolerance for violence and outright death threats?
Is that a serious question? Because it seems like clear progress to me.
Is that a serious question? Because it seems like clear progress to me.
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And just think, that's the letter that the Life editorial board approved for publication. Imagine what got rejected.
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I think the worst part about that People of Walmart post is that the vast majority of commenters agree with the homophobic shirt... which begs the question: Are most of PoW readership just looking for pictures of themselves or people they know..?
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What is the rabbit doing with it's fingers? It seems to be pointing at the head of the T-Shirt wearer, implying that he is the "silly faggot" in question.
At least, that's what it looks like to me.
At least, that's what it looks like to me.
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The first time I visited Capitol Hill in the mid-90s, I saw a guy wearing a T-shirt with the "Silly Faggot Dicks are for Chicks" slogan on it. I marveled at the provocative stupidity on display and was tempted to follow him around to watch in case he got beat up.
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@6 I interpreted the rabbit to be flipping off the viewer, which would fit more with the overall obnoxious message.
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Just like the Israeli Rabbi who called for the genocide of Palstinians over the weekend:
"All these evil people should perish ... God should strike them with a plague."
"These evil people" in our case are the awful, ignorant, horrible, ugly, vapid, and mean upper, middle and lower class American white people.
"All these evil people should perish ... God should strike them with a plague."
"These evil people" in our case are the awful, ignorant, horrible, ugly, vapid, and mean upper, middle and lower class American white people.
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I like KIMJ's comment on the PoW site (she's responding to someone suggesting the guy in the tee-shirt might be a bigot -- ya think?):
"Just because someone doesn’t agree with your line of thinking doesn’t make them a bigot… just FYI. I don’t agree with wearing shirts like this (and I would feel the same with any other inappropriate commentary on shirts) out in public as it is really impolite, especially to children and parents trying to make sure that their kids stay innocent and have a good childhood for as long as possible.. Shirts like this are on the same level as any other clothing that has foul language or inappropriate phrases or sentences printed on it that should really just be left to you and a group of your good friends."
Now, that's a true PoW for ya.
"Just because someone doesn’t agree with your line of thinking doesn’t make them a bigot… just FYI. I don’t agree with wearing shirts like this (and I would feel the same with any other inappropriate commentary on shirts) out in public as it is really impolite, especially to children and parents trying to make sure that their kids stay innocent and have a good childhood for as long as possible.. Shirts like this are on the same level as any other clothing that has foul language or inappropriate phrases or sentences printed on it that should really just be left to you and a group of your good friends."
Now, that's a true PoW for ya.
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Yes, I would agree that not everyone that disagrees with us is a bigot, but I'd have to argue that use of the words "Silly Faggot" pretty much confirms that you are.
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#9 - but all the awful, ignorant, horrible, ugly, vapid, and mean blacks and Latinos are OK with you, huh? What is behind your seemingly genocidal hatred of white people?
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