From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,ca.politics,ba.politics
Subject: Re: A Worrisome Example of "Subhuman" Ideology
Date: 9 Nov 92 17:52:03 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA

In article <1992Nov6.234341.6558@s1.gov>, lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
> In article <13076@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
# #My wife was flipping through TV channels last night, and we ran into
# #some tax-subsidized homosexual propaganda on PBS, a gay variety
# #show called "In The Life."
# 
# 	But if not a cent of tax money had gone into it, Claytoon,
# would you have had the decency to shut up abou it?
# 
# 	Or would you have gone into a rage at not being able to pull
# the government-grant plug on the funding of this documentary?

I would simply have not mentioned that I was forced to subsidize
it.  How would you feel if PBS produced a white supremacist
variety show?  You would be as outraged as I am.  (Of course, I
would be outraged by that too).

# #At one point in the show, they showed an ad clearly intended to
# #raise consciousness about gay-bashing.  It was very well done,
# #and for the most part, I found myself very pleased with it.
# #It captured the terror of being attacked, and not being able to
# #defend yourself.  (It's a shame that PBS would never deign to show 
# #a similar ad against generalized violent crime -- but then again, 
# #straight lives aren't worth much to the leftist establishment of this
# #country).
# 
# 	Bullshit.
# 
# 	Just watch some cop show some time.

Which cop shows does PBS run?  (Read what I wrote, dummy).

# 	I think the whole idea of this documentary is that mugging,
# burglary, and other such crimes are commonly frowned upon, while
# gay-bashing is not.

Sorry, but violent assault is frowned upon everywhere I have ever
been.

# #But there was one part of the ad that was very worrisome, because
# #of past history.  At one point, as the point man for the gay-bashing
# #gang chases after the victim, the image cuts rapidly back and forth
# #between the gay-basher and a furious barking Doberman pinscher.
# #The close of the ad says, "Hate.  It's not human."
# 
# 	That's what you think of the Nazis, right?
# 
# 	Or would you like some Nazi apologist describing what
# wonderful patriots and family men the Nazi leaders were?
# 
# 	Something describing in glowing terms what a selfless leader
# Hitler was?
# 
# 	Describing how he had little taste for ostentatious luxury,
# unlike the rest of his Nazi buddies? [Certainly true, but does that
# _exonerate_ him?]

Not in the least.  But saying that they weren't human, while
emotionally satisfying, fails to help us recognize when this
crap comes down AGAIN.

# 	Or else the Ku Klux Klan. Would you like to hear about what
# Christian patriots they are? How they try to protect virtuous white
# women from lecherous black rapists?
# 
# 	One of Hollywood's first great epics, _Birth of a Nation_,
# actually presented the KKK in this very flattering light.

I've seen it.  And I wasn't suggesting that gay-bashers be
portrayed positively -- quite the opposite.  But the implication
of them being "non-human" takes away their personal responsibility
for their actions.
-- 
Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer  My opinions, all mine!
The Physician Assisted Death Initiative failed.  Term limits for Congressmen
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