{"id":6487,"date":"2009-11-20T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6487"},"modified":"2009-11-20T09:35:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T14:35:48","slug":"bad-bad-jeff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6487","title":{"rendered":"Bad, Bad Jeff."},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I get started, let me just start by saying how very, very much I hate Andy Birkey of the Minnesota Independent<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Part of it is the gay thing, sure.\u00a0 But for the most part, it’s because like most sentient people I hate liberals; their attitudes, their smug self-centered perspective on all things, their beliefs themselves.<\/p>\n

I don’t think “hate” is too strong a word; they differ from me – so “hate” would seem to be perfectly appropriate.\u00a0 No?<\/p>\n

Well, of course “no”.<\/p>\n

Hating someone for what they believe – presuming it’s a legal belief that harms nobody – to say nothing of what they are, genetically or through whatever means beyond their control, is not just wrong; it’s one of those things that society has branded as “evil or pretty darn close to it” in the past 70-odd years.<\/p>\n

So did Jeff Fecke never get that message<\/a>? <\/a><\/p>\n

First off, let me note that I hate Carrie Prejean as much as the next sentient human.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sentient humans as a rule don’t hate, at least not over things that are within the rational realm.<\/p>\n

And what did Ms. Prejean do that warranted this “hatred?”<\/p>\n

Held a view on gay marriage that echoes that of the vast majority of our society, including the voting majorities of the 31 states that have held elections on the subject and, at least in terms of public pronouncements, the President that Mr. Fecke supports.<\/p>\n

Disagree?\u00a0 Sure.\u00a0 It’s what people in a democracy do; disagree without, ideally, being disagreeable.<\/p>\n

But to all too many on the left, “difference of opinion” is grounds for hatred.\u00a0 And hate they do.<\/p>\n

And while Fecke does go on to make plenty of sense…:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s sick and wrong. And it\u2019s nothing to laugh about, even if the victim in this case has been moralizing about other things. For all her wrongness, I don\u2019t recall Prejean arguing that LGBTQQ individuals should have their nude, intimate photos and videos released to the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…I just have to point out another thing that nobody, Fecke included, can recall Ms. Prejean doing; hating gays.\u00a0 You might be one of those who believes that denying the rectitude of gay marriage equals hatred; that’s the sort of reductionist argument that boils every difference of opinion down to instant blacks and whites that leave no room for anything but yelling, screaming and, well, hatred; every disagreement requires a level of emotional commitment most people can not sustain for long enough to try to drag it back to sanity; every disagreement becomes a choice between “Hate as well” or “walk away and stay away”.<\/p>\n

I’d like to think we could do better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before I get started, let me just start by saying how very, very much I hate Andy Birkey of the Minnesota Independent. Part of it is the gay thing, sure.\u00a0 But for the most part, it’s because like most sentient people I hate liberals; their attitudes, their smug self-centered perspective on all things, their beliefs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6487"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6489,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487\/revisions\/6489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}