{"id":9744,"date":"2016-09-29T11:24:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T18:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=9744"},"modified":"2016-09-29T11:27:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T18:27:42","slug":"what-next-how-the-nazi-party-feels-cut-off-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/29\/what-next-how-the-nazi-party-feels-cut-off-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"what next, New York Times – a story about how the old Nazis feel “cut off” in Germany?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times<\/i> have run a wretched little sob-story sympathy article<\/a> about how conservative evangelicals feel “cut off” over how their Culture Wars have gone, and by Mr. Trump’s GOP nomination. They focus on an old couple – the Odgaards of Iowa, “religious liberty ambassadors” for the Ted Cruz campaign – who decided to sell their commercial property to the fundamentalist church they attend rather than comply with anti-discrimination law.<\/p>\n

Really.<\/em> How sad<\/em>.<\/p>\n

How about how I felt “cut off” fighting their<\/em> ballot initiatives criminalising me? Clearly, no one<\/em> at the New York Times has any goddamn idea what that<\/em> feels like, or what it’s like to go door to door arguing for my right to exist<\/em>, or they wouldn’t write such lovely paeans to my vicious, unrelenting oppressors<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Hey, how about an article how queers deal with the long-term multi-impact trauma of having almost. every. single. election. of our adult lives being existential questions<\/em>? Hey, New York Times<\/i>, how about I how feel “abandoned” there?<\/p>\n

How about how queers feel when this very year<\/em>, Mr. Trump has promised to nominate only judges endorsed by Heritage Foundation, which thinks states should be allowed to make our existence illegal?<\/eM><\/a><\/p>\n

But no, who gives a fuck about queers, we’ve got to talk about sad ol’ Grandma and Grandpa Whitey Bigotsson. How sad<\/eM> they feel “cut off,” how they aren’t adequately represented by their presidential nominee!<\/eM> How abandoned<\/eM> they feel now that they can’t fucking have the state kill me<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Ever been handed a pamphlet calling for your own execution? I’ve said it before, but I have.<\/em> It wasn’t even this new one from 2015<\/a>, it was a previous version! They’re still making new ones!<\/em><\/p>\n

And that<\/em> is the the kind of thing Grandma and Grandpa are just fine with. That<\/em> doesn’t make them feel “cut off” or “abandoned” or sad or anything! Oh, they might think that’s a little far, these days, but don’t get it wrong: that’s what they go for when they think they can get it<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I note, by the way, that both Their Guy and<\/em> Mr. Trump accepted the endorsement of that pamphlet’s author, and stood on stage with him, just best buds 5eva<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But The New York Times<\/i> apparently wants us to understand how sad they feel. How bereft. How “abandoned.”<\/p>\n

“It all flipped, so fast,” said Mr. Odgaard, a patrician 70-year-old who favors khakis and boat shoes. “Suddenly, we were in the minority. That was kind of a scary feeling. It makes you wonder where the Christians went.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They talk about the decision to sell their building to their church. How sad it is. “It’s like losing a child,” said Ms. Odgaard.<\/p>\n

No, you know what’s like losing a child? Making your children homeless and destitute because they’re queer. Like their movement did, and still does.<\/p>\n

Queer kids are a big, big chunk of homeless youth – last time I saw a figure, it was 40%. And it’s because their movement encourages it<\/em>, with their people telling each other it’s the necessary and godly thing to do<\/em> – assuming the legal torture programme known as “conversion therapy” doesn’t work out, of course.<\/p>\n

I’ve written about this before, but I’m never<\/em> letting it go – Beverly LaHaye, founder of Concerned Women for America, on her nationally-syndicated radio show through the 1990s, telling her listeners that this was critical<\/em>, that they had to deprive their children<\/em> of all shelter, all hope, all recourse, all home – for being queer. Listening to her console her listeners who did it, supporting them, encouraging them as they sobbed into the telephone about what was happening to their own children<\/em> who they had made destitute<\/em>.<\/p>\n

That<\/em> was fun to transcribe, let me fuckin’ tell you. Those kids show up on the street in Seattle, and other towns, and they’re – go figure – complete wrecks. A lot of them – a lot<\/em> of them – end up dead.<\/p>\n

I guess that’s less “losing a child” and more “killing<\/em> a child,” but hey, they’re fag kids, who cares, am I right? None of that’s half<\/em> as poignant<\/em> as poor ol’ Grandma and Grandpa Bigotsson selling their building to the fundamentalist church they attend instead of complying with anti-discrimination law.<\/p>\n

So “cut off.” So “abandoned.” So sad.<\/p>\n

Good.<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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