The Next Culture War - Regulate 'gay TV' for decency? By Mickey Kaus
The Next Culture War - Regulate 'gay TV' for decency? By Mickey Kaus: "Why a big fight this summer when we already have gay characters on network TV and entire gay shows--The L-Word--on cable? Cultural conservatives have already lost that battle"
Mickey K (known as the midget, for his towering intellect), replies:
"Gay characters and gay Showtime dramas are one thing. An entire network celebrating and validating homosexuality pumped into every home with basic cable service might be too much for many people to tolerate. Maybe they don't accept that they've lost the battle! Maybe journalists telling them they've lost the battle makes them madder."
Compare and contrast this item, from Turnspit:
"I spotted a new creationist symbol (or "motto" as it were) today. You may have seen it before, but it was a first for me. It was not a sticker but an actual license plate cover. On the bottom was an image of water (indicated with wavy lines). In the water was a Darwin fish, lying upside down, presumably dead. Accompanying this was a line on the top of the plate cover that read: "Fish don't walk and Jesus still lives." Word-for-word."
As Turnspit observed: "It's clever, and I imagine we'll be seeing more of this soon. The only problem is that it's absolutely wrong."
Yes, boys and girls, here amongst the reality-based community, we realize that, in fact and in truth, Jesus of Nazareth died roughly 2000 years ago, and stayed dead. And, for those interested in biology, there are a number of fish species, which do indeed walk, including (according to Turnspit), the Northern Snakehead and the Mudskipper and the Climbing Perch.
The willingness of people to believe things is in-born, but the arrogance of people, who want to be honored and deferred to, for the sake of their arbitrary beliefs, is a political movement.
By its very nature, it is not a political movement, which it will be easy to combat with rational argument. Certainly, pointing out that Darwin is right, and assertions that the earth was created 6000 years ago in accord with a literal Biblical chronology is nonsense, will not be enough to dissuade wilful morons. Shooting them has a certain appeal, but how are we to get the bloodstains out of the carpet?
We need a strategy for undermining the religious right. Will revelations of corruption work? Hey, it has always worked before.
Mickey K (known as the midget, for his towering intellect), replies:
"Gay characters and gay Showtime dramas are one thing. An entire network celebrating and validating homosexuality pumped into every home with basic cable service might be too much for many people to tolerate. Maybe they don't accept that they've lost the battle! Maybe journalists telling them they've lost the battle makes them madder."
Compare and contrast this item, from Turnspit:
"I spotted a new creationist symbol (or "motto" as it were) today. You may have seen it before, but it was a first for me. It was not a sticker but an actual license plate cover. On the bottom was an image of water (indicated with wavy lines). In the water was a Darwin fish, lying upside down, presumably dead. Accompanying this was a line on the top of the plate cover that read: "Fish don't walk and Jesus still lives." Word-for-word."
As Turnspit observed: "It's clever, and I imagine we'll be seeing more of this soon. The only problem is that it's absolutely wrong."
Yes, boys and girls, here amongst the reality-based community, we realize that, in fact and in truth, Jesus of Nazareth died roughly 2000 years ago, and stayed dead. And, for those interested in biology, there are a number of fish species, which do indeed walk, including (according to Turnspit), the Northern Snakehead and the Mudskipper and the Climbing Perch.
The willingness of people to believe things is in-born, but the arrogance of people, who want to be honored and deferred to, for the sake of their arbitrary beliefs, is a political movement.
By its very nature, it is not a political movement, which it will be easy to combat with rational argument. Certainly, pointing out that Darwin is right, and assertions that the earth was created 6000 years ago in accord with a literal Biblical chronology is nonsense, will not be enough to dissuade wilful morons. Shooting them has a certain appeal, but how are we to get the bloodstains out of the carpet?
We need a strategy for undermining the religious right. Will revelations of corruption work? Hey, it has always worked before.
posted by Bruce Wilder at 11:55 AM
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