November 19, 2008
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Where Are We? Huckabee Edition
Republicans better hate themselves some gays or they won’t belong to the club any more.
Mike Huckabee, campaign loser, Fox News commentator, and someone whose hand I shook once, claims that since gays haven’t been victims in their struggle for equality, their struggle for equality is over ‘different rights’ than the struggle for equality by blacks in the US.
This line of reasoning has two flaws:
1) If the premise about gays not being victimized were true, it would still be untrue, and…
2) The premise is not true.
See, if you’re a visible Republican and you lose all your elections, then you get to be on Fox News and wander around spouting crap that only makes sense in the context of justifying previous horrors, and setting the groundwork for future horrors. This is known as ‘wingnut welfare.’ The RNC or whoever pays you to keep the water of political discourse muddy.
Basically, Huckabee is saying crap that he probably knows is crap, in order to keep stupid people from thinking it through.
And that’s Where We Are.
PS: Day Without A Gay.
Comments (2)
I don’t dislike Huckabee, but good grief, the man can spew really asinine crap.
That’s the stupidist thing I ever heard. Did he really say that?
There is something that I find interesting about the comparison between the plight of blacks and gays. And that is this argument over whether homosexuality is a choice. People try to argue that it isn’t a choice as if that will magically lift all discrimination of gays, as if the notion that they can’t help it makes it ok. But no one ever argued that being black was a choice, and it didn’t stop people from hating.
So who cares if its a choice (which it obviously isn’t – why would you choose something you didn’t like?).