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lederhosenOrcinus: Coulter and Savage-Weiner discover that homophobia can backfire. Savage ("you'd be arrested for sedition within six months of my taking power") was dumped by his talent agency after he launched a vitriolic attack on Melissa Etheridge, and Coulter's column has been dropped by several papers after her recent 'faggot' comments at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
This bit got me, though:
And a cadre of conservative bloggers, including a number of gay Republicans, has issued an open letter to CPAC organizers, asking that [Coulter] never be invited back to the event, and basically kicking her out of the conservative movement
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da_norvegicus was running a D&D game with his classmates; I was up the other end of the house where it's quiet, but I heard one of the players saying "this is gay" a couple of times when he didn't like the way the story was going. So I wandered over and politely told them: "We don't use the word 'gay' as an insult in this house."
I didn't make a big deal out of it. Kids hear stuff like that and they repeat it without thinking about what it means, with no intention to vilify anybody; usually a quiet word is enough for that sort of thing. But at the same time I wasn't willing to let it slide, so I made it clear to them that that sort of thing is not welcome here.
I did not wait for complaints. And if I was a gay Republican, I would take the fact that I even had to ask the CPAC organizers to repudiate Coulter's far more odious remarks - let alone the fact that the audience bloody well APPLAUDED them - as evidence that they were no friends of mine.
Even if they did unknowingly give out an award to a former gay porn star at the same conference.
This bit got me, though:
And a cadre of conservative bloggers, including a number of gay Republicans, has issued an open letter to CPAC organizers, asking that [Coulter] never be invited back to the event, and basically kicking her out of the conservative movement
Let me digress for a moment. A couple of weeks back
da_norvegicus was running a D&D game with his classmates; I was up the other end of the house where it's quiet, but I heard one of the players saying "this is gay" a couple of times when he didn't like the way the story was going. So I wandered over and politely told them: "We don't use the word 'gay' as an insult in this house."I didn't make a big deal out of it. Kids hear stuff like that and they repeat it without thinking about what it means, with no intention to vilify anybody; usually a quiet word is enough for that sort of thing. But at the same time I wasn't willing to let it slide, so I made it clear to them that that sort of thing is not welcome here.
I did not wait for complaints. And if I was a gay Republican, I would take the fact that I even had to ask the CPAC organizers to repudiate Coulter's far more odious remarks - let alone the fact that the audience bloody well APPLAUDED them - as evidence that they were no friends of mine.
Even if they did unknowingly give out an award to a former gay porn star at the same conference.
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Date: 2007-03-11 03:41 am (UTC)(Deleted previous comment because wording inadvertently looked like a jab, which wasn't at all what I intended.)