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1. alansmithee: what possible reason motivates you to question whether the murder of matthew shepard was or was not a hate crime? what do you hope to demonstrate by pursuing this line of argument?
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i thought this thread was about the latest manifestation of reactionary cultural policy emanating from the evangelical-dominated extreme right.
as is usual for this kind of thing these days, censorship proposals--wholly ridiculous proposals at that--are squeezed out into the public sphere wrapped in the steaming brown bonbon of "protecting our children"---- from what i guess could be understood as the floating spores that cause homosexuality in the tiny world of the extreme right.
on the other hand, maybe there is a sense in which gerald allen recognizes the linkage between ignorance and his views and so is really defending his views by trying to limit access to a huge range of literature. information is poison, apparently.
the funny thing underneath this is that in order to implement the proposal, a list would be required--which means that criteria for defining homosexuality would have to be elaborated--all of which would be very 1942. i wonder which model they will use: the nazi lists of jews? no no...naming fascist antecedents creates more trouble than it is worth. it follows, then, that fascist proposals cannot be fascist if the person floating them does not mention fascism. q.e.d.
so maybe the vatican's index of banned books--but wait....the vatican is full of catholics--and we know from reading various apocalyptic tracts from evangelicals that there is a strain of "thought" which understands the catholic church as the Beast outlined in the extended fever dream that ends the new testament.
so i expect that they will pretend that nothing like this has happened before, because gerald allen means well....the last defense of the true asswipe.
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