More Irony? Why Not?
By Mitch Berg
Victor Davis Hanson,from last week’s excellent piece on the ironies of 2008, on the California gay “community’s” protests against Proposition 8. Hanson notes that not only did Hispanics and Blacks voted every bit as disproportionately against gay marriage as, say, Mormons and Evangelicals, but that in his (predominantly Hispanic) neighborhood people rarely use terms as polite as “gay” to describe gays.
But then…:
Why then did not gay groups march through the streets of West Fresno, San Jose, or South Central LA, where such opponents are concentrated en masse and could be picketed, demonstrated against, and megaphoned for their sins?Was it because it is more dangerous calling Latinos in Fresno barrios homophobes than screaming the same at Mormons in the upscale temple parking lot? Or was that to do the former questioned the fable of uniformly aggrieved groups who share a variety of racial and sexual grievances, while to do the latter attested to the easy oppression we associate with white male Christians?
Well, it does make sense – in facile, gutless kind of way…
January 13th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
How much money came out of the barrio to fight the proposition?
January 13th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
It doesn`t matter how much money, only how many votes.
January 13th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
If money were the determining factor, Mr. Arianna Huffington would have been governor of California.
January 14th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
I wasn’t at any protests, but I think the protests against the church were because of the amount of money poured into the issue, and had little to do with how many people voted for it.
Me, I think when the majority votes for an issue, protests don’t do much to change their minds.