Friday, August 27, 2010

POLITICS - GOP Islamaphobia

"The GOP Swaps Gay Bashing for Islamaphobia" by Sarah Jones, PoliticusUSA 8/26/2010

Excerpt

Republicans Walking Back Anti-Gay Stance in Favor of Anti-Muslim Stance

Keeping up with Republican hate is tough. It reminds me of the time-honored strategy of the “popular kids” in high school. You never know whom they’re going to pick on next. And when they finally relent on one group, they take the group they just spit on and entice them to sell their souls for the privilege of being acknowledged. The carrot dangles, “We’ll stop hating you if you’ll hate these other people.” Sort of a Republican hazing process. In other words, in GOP land, gay is OK now so long as you hate Muslims.

Has been for a few months.

Muslim is bad now. Also, too, any kind of brown skin especially from south of the border. That is super bad. But gay is OK. Republicans are easing up on their gay hate and more and more “conservatives” are “revealing” (aka, doing their puppetly duties) that they have secretly supported gay marriage or are, in fact, gay.

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