If you have lived in one of the Left’s strongholds for any amount of time, you learn how to navigate around your local moonbats so as to avoid the harangue about whatever it is they are into at the moment. A decade ago when they started vibrating in ecstasy over homo marriage, the safe course was to say, “Let ’em be as miserable as the rest of us!” Then you could walk away without having to listen to the sermon.
Libertarians have built an entire philosophy around avoiding contact with the enemy. Gay marriage? They are against marriage licenses! Immigration? They are against borders! Whatever the issue, they always have some third implausible option they champion so everyone can ignore them. In the culture wars that have roiled the nation over the last fifty years, libertarians have been hiding under their beds.
Anyway, that may be a fine way to avoid conflict, but it makes public discourse impossible. A good example of it is in this screed about Matt Damon in America’s newspaper of record.
Matt Damon is an insufferable jerk. You know it. I know it. Rupert Everett most certainly does.
The Hollywood liberal (read: smug hypocrite) has interrupted the outer-space high surrounding Friday’s release of his Oscar-bait star turn, “The Martian,” to conduct a parallel “I’m Not a Homophobe” tour. But it’s only driving him deeper into the quicksand with LGBTQ types and those, like me, who couldn’t care less whom a performer loves. It’s 2015, Matt. Get over yourself!
He should grovel. GLAAD should dedicate a lecture series to him.
He should shut the hell up.
I’m betting that Andrea Peyser would care a lot if a celeb was found to be “loving” a sheep or a little boy. This affected indifference when it comes to homosexuals is exactly that, artificial. To have an opinion about homosexuals, other than the enthusiastic embrace, means you are evil, maybe even Hitler. If you can’t stomach being Hitler or you cannot embrace sodomy, then you choose the third option, which is to stand on the sidelines and pretend you do so on principle.
Now, Matt Damon is a lunk head and he says batty things. That just makes him a typical Hollywood performer. He’s in a business dominated by gay men so he is courting trouble by speaking publicly about the queers. He could stand up and say all Christians are Nazi pedophiles and his peers would applaud. Appear less than enthusiastic about buggery and you get to bunk with Mel Gibson. Shutting up is probably the best path for him to take.
If you want to live in some version of Iran, ceding the floor to the fanatics is a good way to do it. That is where we are headed. As the space for honest disagreement grows smaller, the number of people willing to risk getting the Hitler treatment grows smaller. Before long the only people left on stage are the guys with the clubs. Andrea Peyser’s admonition, “He should just shut up” becomes a way a life.
The problem is the truth is too awful to bear for almost everyone, including people who are sure they are worldly and wise. The truth is Fred Phelps was right. A nation that not only tolerates but celebrates sodomy is evil and condemned by God.
The libertarians got the internet all wrong, too. They thought it was going to bring the libertarian millennium. Instead it just makes it easier for the nosey to spy on you, the scolds to scold you, and the douchebags to heap calumny on you. The Internet sees your privacy as damage to be routed around. LOL, as the kids these days say.
Andrew Klaven does a pretty good rant on the “just shut up” argument:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWHgUE9AD4s
Funny, too.
It’s no internet rumor, the propaganda has worked. Millennials do in fact believe that twenty percent or more of the population is queer. I’ve asked the ones that I know well, and half of them thought so. They were quite amenable to listening to hard facts to the contrary. I didn’t need to contradict their personal experience, only the years of tv , movie, and academia bs. No doubt there would be social exclusion were they to step out of the darkness.
Now I finally understand that the people running those carnivals see themselves as being more than executives or artists or professors, they see themselves first as revolutionaries. It is a secret society far more effective than Illuminati or Masons or the Skull and Bones of our imagination, and they justifiably take great pride in it. It would be as if Jesus returned and converted the entire society into Christians without them even being aware of it.
But if the Donald has, accidentally or not, taught us anything, it is that resistance is not futile; but go for broke and not in increments.
Pssst….. “America’s newspaper of record” is not the New York Post although perhaps it should be.