Really says it all about that time and place, that the cops could not be bothered to drape a handkerchief over the face of the burned-alive victim trapped in the window grating. Just left him there for the crowd to look at, for hours.
I went to another site and saw the photo. Words can't describe what I feel.
Should I post it with a spoiler (to hide it)? Not to be sensationalist or a weirdo or anything, but these images must be seen. We can't let this tragedy & injustice be forgotten & images, including really morbid ones, have a tendency to galvanize & make people think.
Especially the morbid ones, I might add. And the accounts of homophobia in Russia. And the stories of gay
Holocaust survivors. And what happens in Uganda...
Gives the lie to the
conservative theory that "homosexual perversion of what God intended" and "liberal fascism" is the source of violence in America. I wonder what
Ryan Dobson's reaction would be if the pictures you speak of were shoved in his face? We'd probably get a tap-dance about how "homosexuality should be confronted in a loving manner" and how Uganda and Russia don't count as "Judeo-Christian."
It's also entertaining to imagine the rhetorical contortions Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh would go through to argue that the homophobes in this story were all "liberals".
Obviously, there's a shitload of evidence that individuals should have rights regardless of whether or not the majority approves. Liberty >>> Democracy.
Sure seems like any time the enforcement of "traditional values" comes into play, the result is
pointless suffering, oppression by the state, and violence against those who are not allowed to defend themselves. How come, in practice, NONE of these traditional values ever involve the tradtional value of leaving people the fuck alone?
I crossed out "conservative" Edmund Burke and Barry Goldwater deserve a hell of a lot more intellectual legitimacy than the
racist theocrats who get to call themselves "American conservatives."
Obviously, there are
tradtional values that are not necessarily bad. Not that that makes any difference to authoritarians who like to make their highly selective view of history and tradition the authoritative version, as cracked.com
notes.
...Whew. Nice going, Spukikitty, now you've got me ranting. Enthusiasm really is contagious-- or, more accurately, "someone is RIGHT on the internet." Someone needs to make that a meme.
. Also, I apologize in advance to anyone who feels spammed by the cracked.com links. What can I say? Take with
a grain of salt, of course.