Opinion of anti-gay bullying

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

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I'm reading that Rolling Stone article right now. Seriously unpleasant, disturbing stuff.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

HP (normal)

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I'm reading that Rolling Stone article right now. Seriously unpleasant, disturbing stuff.

Which one?

The one about the bigot town?

Yeah.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Not for the faint-hearted.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

You tricky, tricky, tricky bastard. Made me vote FF by putting it below HP.

Somebody else voted FF, and I'm not sure I want to know who it was.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Not for the faint-hearted.

See and some people think I'm crazy for being so disgusted by suburbs.

There are good and bad suburbs, politically. My distaste for suburbs as a construct is primarily aesthetic and sociological.

Not for the faint-hearted.

What utterly horrible people.

It's a good thing we have religion around to prevent things like this as it teaches people to be rational and compassionate.

It depends on the religion.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I feel a little sick in my mouth after reading that. Bachmann is a total c-nt.

So it's not okay to call little Brittany a c**nt but it's okay to call Michelle Bachmann a c**nt?

I see.  We can bully people for their political views, but not for being fat or being a lesbian.  Glad we got that straightened out.

Bachmann has, one imagines, choices regarding whether or not to actively make life worse for people who are not like her.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I feel a little sick in my mouth after reading that. Bachmann is a total c-nt.

So it's not okay to call little Brittany a c**nt but it's okay to call Michelle Bachmann a c**nt?

I see.  We can bully people for their political views, but not for being fat or being a lesbian.  Glad we got that straightened out.

Bachmann has, one imagines, choices regarding whether or not to actively make life worse for people who are not like her.

...and here I was thinking that all bullying was bad.  Apparently sometimes taunting and name-calling and public degradation is okay, so long one understands which groups we're allowed to beat up on.  I'm not defending Bachmann, just trying to understand the new moral fashion.
 

It's also not so much because of Bachmann's beliefs as because since she is a US Congresswoman she is a public feature by virtue of those beliefs and in a position to impose them on other people. If she was not a public figure, or a public figure for some other reason, I'd have a problem with it.