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Here's Everything We Learned From the Duck Dynasty Controversy Summed Up in Just One Sentence
Noah Michelson
Editor, HuffPost Gay Voices
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/noah-michelson/heres-everything-we-learn_b_4509998.html
You can say whatever you want, including that gay people are sinful and full of "murder, envy, strife, hatred" and are in the same league as those who enjoy being penetrated by barnyard animals and that black people were "happy" and were not "singing the blues" when Jim Crow laws ruled America, and as long as you later tack on "I love all of humanity" and I would "never incite or encourage hate" and throw around the word "tolerance," and as long as there's enough money and publicity swirling and more ready to be made, you will face absolutely no consequences and if anything you'll be celebrated as a hero and lauded as an icon of freedom -- some will even go so far as to call you the "Rosa Parks" of our generation -- while the people you were talking about will still be vilified and will have to fight even harder against society's belief that they are -- even in the 21st century, even in a country that is not supposed to be ruled by religion or heartless, hateful zealots -- at their very core all of those vile and (let it be said once and for all) patently untrue things that you said about them.
Noah Michelson
Editor, HuffPost Gay Voices
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/noah-michelson/heres-everything-we-learn_b_4509998.html
You can say whatever you want, including that gay people are sinful and full of "murder, envy, strife, hatred" and are in the same league as those who enjoy being penetrated by barnyard animals and that black people were "happy" and were not "singing the blues" when Jim Crow laws ruled America, and as long as you later tack on "I love all of humanity" and I would "never incite or encourage hate" and throw around the word "tolerance," and as long as there's enough money and publicity swirling and more ready to be made, you will face absolutely no consequences and if anything you'll be celebrated as a hero and lauded as an icon of freedom -- some will even go so far as to call you the "Rosa Parks" of our generation -- while the people you were talking about will still be vilified and will have to fight even harder against society's belief that they are -- even in the 21st century, even in a country that is not supposed to be ruled by religion or heartless, hateful zealots -- at their very core all of those vile and (let it be said once and for all) patently untrue things that you said about them.
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Here's Everything We Learned From the Duck Dynasty Controversy Summed Up in Just One Sentence [View all]
Miles Archer
Dec 2013
OP
Your facebook friend is using the same tactic used on DU to excuse the Pope's
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2013
#31
There are a couple of unintended positive consequences from the Schmuck Dynasty Broohaha.
WowSeriously
Dec 2013
#8
And, that one sentence is: "Some people need to be ignored to the extent possible."
Coyotl
Dec 2013
#10
A gay black man’s response to A&E’s reversal of Phil Robertson’s suspension from ‘Duck Dynasty’
Cha
Dec 2013
#13
They definitely want gays dead. And another group of people are going to be used for their purpose:
freshwest
Dec 2013
#16
That which this guy says about Phil Duck applies also to Francis the Pope
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2013
#30