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Washington Post,
I agree completely with every word written by the blogger,
below. I'm glad that someone in the gay community is seeing
the deep-seated bigotry that permeates nearly the
entire media establishment of our country, that has been doing
little but getting uglier as time goes by.
The blogger didn't mention the name of the person who fabricated
the hate-propaganda "statistics", but I know that it is Dr. Paul Cameron,
the disbarred psychologist who has openly advocated exterminating
gays "if medically necessary".
The Post has a lot of nerve to pretend that we are angry only because
"they disagree with us over gay marriage".
You are publishing material that is coming from a genocide advocate,
nothing less. This is not hyperbole- literally, a genocide advocate.
If you are going to publish such material, you have a duty to the
public to expose from where it is really coming.
When the Post ran an article praising the reggae singer "Beenie
Man" to the skies, what did the Post do, when it was called to their
attention that this singer has frequently advocated murder and
extermination of gays in his lyrics?
According to the Post article, the singer was "gaining a new
respectability" and had "brilliant wordplay".
This article went into great depth about Beenie Man's life,
from birth, through his entire career. It is extremely unlikely
that the author would have been unaware of this vicious
anti-gay hate.
Did the Post publish an apology? Don't tell me, let me guess-
it said nothing at all, like it never happened.
The 40th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act came
and went. Did any of you even mention that gays have
to be covered under it, or were you too busy shilling for
the GOP hatemongers who have used gays to distract
attention from more serious matters?
Don't try to tell us that you aren't bigots. You are
bigot-lite, failing to notice the bigot-psychopaths
who are grabbing more power every day. Why should
you care? It's not aimed at you.
The dripping snot of the deep-seated prejudices
that are nearly universal in the world, are evident in your
reporting, your favoritism, your censorship, nearly
every day. When Newsweek magazines asks,
"Has TV gone too far?", it poses list of examples:
1) Bare buttocks, 2) gay couples, kissing.
These mental associations have been so heavily conditioned
in the neurons of your brains, that it is about as automatic and
unconscious as the twitching of an amputated frog's leg, under electric
shock.
You'd better start becoming aware of these attitudes, before
you mindlessly inflame things to the point that an angry
mob is bombing and burning your buildings.
You don't like angry gays. You want gays to be harmless,
comic, tame. Majorities never like angry minorities.
When we are all beaten-up and bloody, or murdered, then
maybe you can dispense a breadcrumb of sympathy for
the poor bleeding, little faggot.
However, there are plenty of harmless, little gay people,
full of idealism, apalled at anger. Look at Mary Cheney,
the quite churchmouse, Ellen Degenere, the wholesome
comic, Mark Bingham, the 9/11 hero, Rev. Mel White, the
nonviolent Christian.
None of their humor, or idealism, or inoffensiveness
was ever been enough to get you off your apathetic asses.
You would start to care -seriously care- if there were enough
deeply-angered gays, that they had a credible shot of going
after nukes, like Al Quaeda.
I think that you are damned enough that little else
you would ever really convince you that the status
quo is too rotten to continue, and that GOP politics
needs a major change in order to keep a stable country.
This is not personal threat, just trying for the 1000th time to
tell you something that you are too dense to understand until
something blows up in your face- You are extremely lucky
that you have never have men with guns burst into your
lobby, pointing guns in your faces, taking hostages, and
delivering to you a load of articles for you to print on the
front page, telling the real story of 3000 years of
vicious mistreatment, of Dr. Paul Cameron,
R.J Rushdooney, the cozy connections to the GOP thereof,
of the murky origins of the AIDS epidemic, and so on and on.
This is a mind-raping sleaze-o-rama of world, full
of cheap-whore politicians to whom homage is paid
by butt-kissing media lackies. Don't think
that you can treat gay life as something unimportant
and cheap, then turn around and ask us why we did
not show more respect for your lives, when the pot
finally boils over.
Tom Keske
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http://americablog.blogspot.com/2004/11/washington-post-defends-bigoted-anti.html
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click here to go there!
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Washington Post defends bigoted anti-gay magazine, blows off concerned readers
by John in DC - 11/24/2004 10:00:55 AM
NOTE: ONCE AGAIN, PLEASE FORWARD THIS NOTE TO YOUR FRIENDS BY EMAIL, TO YOUR FAVORITE BLOGS, ETC. THANKS, JOHN
Yes, if you had an ounce of respect left for the Washington Post, feel free to let it go now.
Their response to the virulently anti-gay magazine insert - inappropriately called "Both Sides Magazine" - they distributed with
last Friday's Post is, quite simply, appalling. Not to mention intellectually dishonest. The way they trivialize our concerns,
suggesting we're simply mad because the religious right disagrees with us about gay marriage! Yeah, it had nothing to do with the
fact that they printed outright lies about us all dying young, based on studies by a quack kicked out of the major medical
associations 20 years ago. Among the man's other studies: one that says 17% of gay men eat feces. He's also the guy who championed
the "gays are pedophiles" myth. But no, the Post thinks our concern is our fear of debating gay marriage. Right.
And now this means their ombudsman will likely write some hideous story in next Sunday's Post about how this pamphlet isn't hateful
at all! Please feel free to contact him again after reading the update below (his contact info is at the bottom of this email), and
also contact Eric Grant, the Post's Director of Communications Affairs. The number is 202 334-6466. These guys need to get the point
that this isn't about gay marriage. It's about promoting Mengele-esque science that was debunked 20-30 years ago. Would the Post
permit someone to run ads with equally quack science attacking blacks and Jews?
Thanks to all who sent me jpg copies of the Washington Post anti-gay insert. RawStory.com has been kind enough to host the zipped
file for us (so you can download it faster) - click here to download. You can also download the set here, courtesy of Gay-Bible.org.
A few of the Post's responses:
- Marc Rosenberg, manager of corporate and public policy advertising for the Post. "The key issue is that it is clearly identified
as an advertising message."
MY RESPONSE: No, the key issue is not whether it's clearly identified as advertising. The key issue quoting fallacious "scientific
studies" proving blacks are inferior to whites and therefore not deserving of civil rights. The Post wouldn't. Hell, the Washington
Post wouldn't even publish my online ad going after Dick and Mary Cheney because it included a cartoon-swear-word - you know, #^$&*
Yes, cartoon swear words were too much for the Post, even though it was clearly an ad that I paid for, but saying that gays die at
the age of 41 while straights die at 69 or 75 is a-okay.
- "We will not allow something hateful to go in the paper," Post Publisher Boisfeuillet Jones Jr. said, indicating he did not
believe this incident involved a hateful message. "Gay marriage is a public issue and matter of public debate, and we believed its
point of view has a right to be expressed."
MY RESPONSE: Not a hateful message? Really? How do you feel about the studies showing blacks to be phsyically inferior to white
people? Ads for skin creams that can make black people white, making civil rights legislation unnecessary since black people who
choose not to use the cream have "chosen" to be black? Any views on Hitler's scientific theories on Jews? What an absolute crock to
suggest that the problem with that pamplet is that it simply "talks" about gay marriage. The problem with that pamplet is that it
promotes Nazi-esque quack science claiming gays are somehow inferior physically to straight people and therefore don't deserve civil
rights. For the Post to suggest otherwise is intentionally intellectually dishonest. They know damn well what our complaint is
about.
- Post Ombudsman Mike Getler: "They might have insisted more that this be in a format that was clearly not a magazine. You could
argue that the disclosure could have been larger. But the Post did not commit a sin by accepting it."
MY RESPONSE: Ah, gotcha. So the trick is that David Duke just needs to use a really large font that says "THIS IS AN AD" when he
runs an ad-magazine denouncing your black and Jewish readers as racially inferior. That's really your position? Because you're about
to inspire someone to raise some cash to run such an ad. And if you kill the ad, you're going to get a civil rights law suit. And if
you run the ad, you're going to have a riot from DC's black community on your hands, and no more black subscribers.
Yes, it was quite gracious of the Post to ignore the question of whether they would print an attack on affirmative action (a valid
public policy discussion) that included passages from the Bell Curve, the 1990s book that argued blacks were less intelligent and
thus committed more crime, etc. Bet the Post would NO PROBLEM with that kind of logic being printed. Or are lies about those
inferior gays all dying in their 40s somehow less offensive than lies about blacks all being stupid?
ACTION:
Contact the Post's ombudsman, Mike Getler. Try to explain to him why you consider this flyer (below) hateful, and be sure to ask him
how the Post would feel about a similar ad about Jews or blacks and their physical inferiority to other races and peoples, and how
that relates to those minorities not deserving civil rights:
- ombudsman@washpost.com
- (202) 334-7582
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