Comments on Polybloggimous: I Remain Defiantly Ambivalent.

Don't get me started on the privilege...

2010-02-09T09:36:40.492-05:00

Don't get me started on the privileged majority claiming persecution and discrimination. "Moron" is the nicest thing I would say about them.

But I tend to agree with you about hate crime legislation. I don't think the victim's experience is any different if they're victimized due to a protected status rather than a random event.

The behavior of the perpetrator (and mitigating factors, etc.) should govern the severity of the sentence.

The AFA are just dumbasses - their 1st Amendment rights aren't being abrogated, and unless (as Eric notes) they're planning on beating up queers as a matter of free speech, I can't see how this affects them.

Also - DOGGIES!

Stupid me, can't comment without typos and mis...

2010-02-09T09:19:02.976-05:00

Stupid me, can't comment without typos and misspellings.

I like the dog pics, they're happier than hate crimes. Not that hate crimes are happy.

2010-02-09T09:17:21.250-05:00

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I'm not sure that AFA isn't a victim of it...

2010-02-09T08:33:12.884-05:00

I'm not sure that AFA isn't a victim of it's own past successes involving shading the truth, half truths and blatant lying. In the past, they've managed to get their own constituency all fired up (not that that's such a difficult proposition), by lying about the ramifications of EEOC regulations forcing them to hire gay teachers and gay janitors and gay priests and gay bus drivers and being forced to remove crosses from churches because everybody knows that crosses make gay choir leaders uncomfortable (or something like that).

I'm not sure if they recognize the difference between distributing propaganda to people already inclined to believe the worst horror stories they can think of and courts which...uh...parse complaints and pay attention to the actual words in them and even which parts claim to be actual quotes.

Like I said, ultimately, that article just got me thinking about something that already makes me uncomfortable. In their case, I'm reasonably confident they'll crash and burn. (Which, of course, will give them something new for their list of how horribly they're oppressed!)

I'm not a big fan of hate crimes legislation e...

2010-02-08T22:50:53.266-05:00

I'm not a big fan of hate crimes legislation either, for the reasons you cite.

However, the AFA are assholes. I mean, for them to have standing--that is to say that they're actually affected by the legislation, logically wouldn't they have to say that they're intending on committing acts of violence based on sexual orientation and are concerned about being unfairly punished for the same? Otherwise, why are they even plaintiffs? I mean, if that's not actually in their brief--which I have a hard time thinking it would be, for obvious reasons--then isn't the subtext? "Yeah, well I haven't beaten up any queers yet, but I might, and I want to make sure all my options are open, y'know."

Unless they're framing this as a taxpayer suit, I guess. I suppose that could be what they're doing, but that hardly seems smarter: "Please don't use my money for law enforcement." Huh. 'Kaaaaaay.

Morons. My country is full of morons. And I am insufficiently boozed up to contemplate the scope of the vast moronity, dammit.