There Oughta Be A Law

See, here is where current gay outrage is about to veer wildly off the tracks and ultimately cost us support. It's as pointless as it was inevitable. Pam Spaulding started it by comparing gay leadership to House Negroes and Uncle Toms. John Aravosis, an eloquent, reasoned defender of the cause a raging hysteric, ran with it, and now there a thousand different fights across the internet about who's offended by the comparison, who suffered more in history, blacks or gays, and the usual circular firing squad spinning so wildly that it's more a vortex of cannon fire.

I propose a new internet law in the spirit of Godwin's Law. We could call it Stowe's Law.

The longer a significant group of internet gays are outraged, the more likely poorly thought out comparisons to the Black Civil Rights struggle will be made. This will invariably result in an Oppression Olympics that alienates and infuriates everyone involved while accomplishing nothing at all.

Something along those lines. It always happens.

Comments

[Tommy]

Good to see you back.

[North Dallas Thirty]

See, here is where current gay outrage is about to veer wildly off the tracks and ultimately cost us support.

Which is probably the entire point.

While the possibility exists that Obama is completely tone-deaf on gay issues, my guess is that he's following the Clinton model of centrism: there is no need to moderate your own positions if you can make everyone else look more extreme.

[Jamie]

*knock, knock*

Hi, it's Inspiration. I heard you were writing again. Guess I was mistaken. . .

[Robbie]

LOL. I am. I think I burned out on Michael Jackson overload. I've been afraid to turn on the television or open any news sites. I just. don't. care.

[E cigarette]

Thanks for the post

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the usual circular firing squad spinning so wildly that it's more a vortex of cannon fire

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like this post just is too excting!
Thanks.
Really I'm agree with Alex. All these nonsense things are happen here.... I don't like it. All these wrong things in the society and It's provides harms to the society.

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