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Yet Another Person I Forgot to Hate: So Many People to Oppress, So Little Time

Posted on | February 25, 2010 | 16 Comments

Hot Air Green Room contributor Sarjex announces that she’s a regular at the Lebanese seafood buffet, IKYWIMAITYD:

It’s been big fun reading the hilarious comments regarding the “Gay Air” revamp cartoon and was reading them out loud to TLG (The Liberal Girlfriend.) . . .
When I hear all the “social justice” queers talking about how hard it is to live in Texas or other places and the US is sooo oppressive I like to snort to them, “Try Iran!” . . .
TLG has been dubious at times with my involvement in Hot Air (I’m a regular chatizen during the Ed Morrissey show) once accusing me of basically lying to my friends during the show. She told me they wouldn’t be nearly so accepting if everybody there knew I was gay.

I responded in the comments:

That’s what they tell you because, once people start thinking about leaving the Identify Politics Ranch, it’s “game over” for the Democratic Party.
They tell gay people that conservatives are homophobes.
They tell black people that conservatives are racists.
They tell poor people that conservatives are rich and greedy.
They tell women that conservatives are sexists.
Et cetera. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Here’s a news flash for Sarjex’s girlfriend: It wasn’t conservatives who started the Culture War. We’re just playing defense, OK?

Those “social-justice queers” want you to believe that, if it weren’t for them, you’d be herded onto cattle cars and shipped off to Straightsville, forced to wear polyester blends and listen to Pat Boone records.

Look, I’m old enough to remember when gay people were mainly about sex, disco and tasteful interior design, not political protests. It was as a result of the AIDs crisis in 1980s that the social-justice brigades began telling gay people that identity politics is the secret to health, happiness and prosperity. It’s the snake-oil political panacea:

Vote Democrat, and we’ll cure what ails you! AIDs, breast cancer, halitosis, dandruff the heartbreak of psoriasis!

There is a Newtonian principle in politics. Activism causes equal and opposite activism, and then the identity-politics mob tells you that the reaction to their activism (the defensive activism of conservatives)  is an expression of fundamental hostility that requires even greater gay militancy. Outfits like GLAAD, HRC and GLSEN raise millions of dollars by scaring their donors to death — “It’s LGBT Kristalnacht!” — everytime some small-town PTA criticizes the presence of “Heather Has Two Mommies” in the school library.

OK, so you fall for this propaganda, you sign the petitions, you send money to these groups, you go to the protest rally and then . . . well, then what?

When all is said and done, what’s in it for you? Or, better yet, what’s in it for them, the “social-justice queers”? They’ve got their tenured positions at the universities or their jobs at liberal magazines or their book contracts. They’ve got their six-figure executive salaries at gay-rights groups and their prestigious appointments to government jobs. And you’ve got (maybe) some symbolic policy change that is, at most, of indirect value to your quality of life.

Wise up, chumps. You’re being bamboozled by a bunch of three-card monte hustlers who are using your “identity” to advance their own interests. At some point you’ve got to start questioning whether politics is really the answer to your problems, or else one of these days your tombstone will read, “Here Lies a Chump, R.I.P.”

But don’t worry, there’s always life after death for Democrats. Just tell your friends to make sure you’re buried in Chicago, where Election Day is like Halloween and the departed spirits of dead Democrats rise from the grave to vote in alphabetical order.

The graveyard is the only place you’ll ever see the fulfillment of the Democratic Party’s promises. As Mary Jo Kopechne recently said to Ted Kennedy, “Now, we’re equal.”

Wake up, chumps. The poverty of the poor is not caused by the wealth of the rich, and discontents of gay people aren’t the result of heterosexuals monopolizing happiness. The politics of spite and envy — which is to say, the agenda of the Democratic Party — can never lead to “social justice,” because there is no such thing as “social justice.” 

As Friedrich Hayek explained, social justice is a mirage, and everyone — rich or poor, gay or straight, black or white, native or immigrant —  ought to be profoundly distrustful of the Democratic Party, whose entire political purpose is to send people chasing after “social justice,” “equality,” and other such mirages, will o’ th’ wisps and phantoms.

Wake up!

Category: Gays, Hot Air, Uncategorized

Comments

16 Responses to “Yet Another Person I Forgot to Hate: So Many People to Oppress, So Little Time”

  1. The Monster
    February 25th, 2010 @ 10:05 pm

    For the record, it’s “AIDS”: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. The S does not form the plural of AID.

    And get off my lawn!

  2. The Monster
    February 25th, 2010 @ 5:05 pm

    For the record, it’s “AIDS”: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. The S does not form the plural of AID.

    And get off my lawn!

  3. Red
    February 25th, 2010 @ 10:11 pm

    I’m just going to rush in right quick without reading. *LMAO* The post title has me reeling. I’m tucking that saying away for a later date. HA!

  4. Red
    February 25th, 2010 @ 5:11 pm

    I’m just going to rush in right quick without reading. *LMAO* The post title has me reeling. I’m tucking that saying away for a later date. HA!

  5. Finrod
    February 25th, 2010 @ 10:26 pm

    Well-said!

  6. David
    February 25th, 2010 @ 10:26 pm

    I keep praying for the day ALL of the aggrieved groups wake up to the sham they’ve been falling for (for literally decades) and tear the Dem Party to shreds.

  7. Finrod
    February 25th, 2010 @ 5:26 pm

    Well-said!

  8. David
    February 25th, 2010 @ 5:26 pm

    I keep praying for the day ALL of the aggrieved groups wake up to the sham they’ve been falling for (for literally decades) and tear the Dem Party to shreds.

  9. Bob Belvedere
    February 25th, 2010 @ 11:52 pm

    That rant, Stacy, was worthy of Dennis Miller.

    WOLVERINES!

  10. Bob Belvedere
    February 25th, 2010 @ 6:52 pm

    That rant, Stacy, was worthy of Dennis Miller.

    WOLVERINES!

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    February 26th, 2010 @ 1:14 am

    IKYWIMAITYD???

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    February 25th, 2010 @ 8:14 pm

    IKYWIMAITYD???

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  16. Cynthia Yockey, A Conservative Lesbian
    February 26th, 2010 @ 1:33 am

    Hot Gay Air…

    I am honored Sarjex gave me a place in the headlines in her parody of Hot Air as Leftie heads exploded over a CPAC-speaker being booed off the stage during an anti-gay rant. Ironically, I’ve already covered the issue Sarjex featured that the disc…