How quick some gay activists (and even the head of the Human Rights Campaign as per an August 15, 2011 letter from its then-president) are to label critics of the “equality” agenda as “hateful.” Instead of calling opponents of state recognition of same-sex marriage just that, opponents of same-sex marriage, they have to call them H8ers.
It does seem gay activists readily label their ideological adversaries as haters — and gay conservatives as “self-hating.” They do like to bandy the slur “hate” about.
Now, we see something worse than this art of name-calling. Another lesbian has been caught staging an anti-gay hate speech:
A lesbian student has been kicked out of college and arrested after it emerged she was behind a string of anti-gay messages slipped under her dorm room door, police said.
After the notes were found in Alexandra Pennell’s room at Central Connecticut State University in March, hundreds came out in support of the student at a campus rally against hate crimes.
But when police hid a camera along the hallway outside her room, they allegedly caught her leaving the notes herself – and she admitted she had written them to get the attention of her roommate.
About six weeks ago, a lesbian couple in Colorado who had “claimed they were victims of a hate crime [were] arrested after police determined they staged the incidents.“
Now, the question, are the two phenomena linked, the readiness to label opponents of the gay groups’ agenda “haters” and the staging of this anti-gay hate speech?
NB: Please note the inclusion of this article in the “Random Thoughts” category; I may address these incidents again in a subsequent post. I throw this out there for discussion and debate. I have some ideas of my own which I would like to flesh out in future posts, but want to post on the story while the news of the Connecticut incident is still fresh.
UPDATE: Commenting on the Connecticut incident, our reader Greg quips on his blog that, “Unfortunately, the charges in question do not include charging her with a hate crime against the groups she explicitly and implicitly blamed for encouraging ‘hate’ against her.”
FROM THE COMMENTS: American Elephant contends that it’s “not even fair to label them ‘opponents of same-sex marriage’, they are, overwhelmingly, supporters of traditional marriage — a very important distinction.” It is an important distinction. Is he right?
Gay leftists have spent so long thinking of themselves as this horribly oppressed minority that they can’t think of themselves any other way. Their entire lives are based on the “fact” that everyone who isn’t like them is out to get them. And it’s not their fault really when every “pro”-gay left wing politician out there is reinforcing that and telling them they need the government to force everyone to accept them because there’s no way it could ever happen any other way. SURELY not by just being a person who happens to be gay instead of letting it be your one defining trait. Except, that’s exactly what’s happening and it screws with people’s sense of victimhood and entitlement when their gayness is greeted with a “meh” instead of pitchforks.
At least that’s what I think. I could be wrong and these people are just attention whores.
I am not sure it is so much that a gay/lesbian person wants to accuse straight haters by doing this, so much as it is some people prone to wanting to be at the center of drama and they use something about them to create it (you get lots of attention if you are a lesbian who is being terrorized by a straight person).
But if these women were straight I suspect they would find their drama in some other way-sort of like the woman who accuses somebody of rape when they weren’t raped (Duke LaCrosse team comes to mind).
Because it’s not enough that there be occasional hate crimes in some places: They must be occurring everywhere and all the time, in order to make everyone guilty. Universal guilt servers multiple purposes:
(1) It serves as an excuse to demand an endless cycle of Reeducation programs, thus advancing the march of leftist propaganda.
(2) Reeducation programs provide a steady income stream for those who created careers out of grievance.
(3) It serves as a ready weapon if anyone dares to express a political opinion that offends the Left.
(4) It provides psychological validation for people who define their self-worth in terms of their political activism.
(5) Being a Leftist just isn’t any fun if you can’t bully people.
…and finally, to emulate David Letterman,
(6) It allows people to find a scapegoat for their personal problems. And the more ordinary their problems, the more satisfying to have a scapegoat.
Dan, Activity such as this is not new, nor is it rampant. HRC should put out a press release admonishing the emotionally unstable girl for her behavior and call for her arrest. Are you writing them a letter? If not, why?
Yep… Nothing New. People will do strange things to get attention.
I’ll never forget reading the blog of a young man who came out in college. His comment was how he went from being privileged (white, upper middle class, private school, good university) to being a victim simply because he was gay.
So here you have an unattractive woman desperately trying to get attention. She’s heard her whole life how being a lesbian gets you that extra status and attention. Guess what no one cared, so she had to manufacture the hate.
Very pleased to hear that she got kicked out of college.
Why isn’t she facing hate crime charges for whipping up hate against those she explicitly and implicitly blamed for the attacks she committed?
Didn’t see you had added that as an update.
Rhymes, added only after your missive to the Watchers’ list.
Just another attempt from the left to regulate inactivity… 😛
Sonic >> Snap.
Dan >> Did you write the HRC a letter? You seem pretty disturbed by their silence.
the poor girl really made a severe mistake. . .
the school responded in a very positive way. . .
she got her consequences. an admitted attention seeker.
sort of like Trump and his birther issue
but another random thought
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/gay-dads-son-banned-roanoke-athletic-club-swimming/story?id=16717179
The girl needs therapy. We’re becoming a nation of victims.
The return of “fake but accurate”.
And yes, if CO has a “hate crimes” law, prosecuting her would be the honest and consistent thing to do.
It’s not even fair to label them “opponents of same-sex marriage”, they are, overwhelmingly, supporters of traditional marriage — a very important distinction.
acceptance by stealth is the key operation here.
By manifacturing hate and difficulties she (and the groups she is part of) benefit from society’s mercy and benevolence.
Considering gays are a small portion of the population (compared to blacks, jews or other minorities) it is very telling that those episodes are so frequent and invite imitation.
Another explanation (that cannot be applied to jews, blacks etc) is that for every real minor harassment a normal person is told to ‘man up and stop crying’. It is evident that nowadays, telling a gay person to ‘man up’ is considered hate speech of the higher order that will cause devastating psychological effects. Hence you enter a loop.
Fact is kids with disabilities, jews, blacks, fat kids, kids with glasses, acne scarred kids, red haired kids, kids with freckles, poor kids in schools receive a lot more bullying than gays that often causes ostracism and reject, yet their complaints are met with ridicule and contempt.
The rule is that if you allow a whiny child to get away with all his whining, you will end up with a permanent whiny person.
Make of that what you will.
Well, it’s politically useful to the gay left, of course, to create the illusion f victimhood. Also, since the left has a way of making celebrities out of “victims,” it’s a great way for attention-whores to become the center of attention; marches, vigils, and whatall.
In a sane world, the story of Matthew Shepard would be a cautionary tale about a young man who unwisely left a bar to have sex and do drugs with strangers he just met. Instead, he’s achieved the nearest thing to sainthood the gay left offers.
The left has to create false narratives because reality simply doesn’t support their worldview.
Susan said,
Well, you seem to be Exhibit A. You simply can’t stand the thought of living in a changing world where gay people are no longer persecuted, so you show up here at every opportunity to whine about it.
You really reached deep into the loony bin for that one. The only people mean enough to react with “ridicule and contempt” are likely to be so-called conservatives, like you. And how many cases can you cite where a kid with one of those traits has also been ostracized by his/her own family, and/or church?
So, Richard R lives in a fantasy narrative where Christians encourage people to be cruel toward others, and liberals (like Dan Savage) are models of tolerance and acceptance.
Like I said, reality is not kind to leftist worldviews.
“Well, you seem to be Exhibit A. You simply can’t stand the thought of living in a changing world where gay people are no longer persecuted, so you show up here at every opportunity to whine about it.”
the number of people on the planet who are REALLY persecuted are offended at your stupid statement. You have no idea of what it means to be persecuted. If someone finds you obnoxious it is because you are, not because you are a gay obnoxious, although being gay makes you feel entitled to be obnoxious
“The only people mean enough to react with “ridicule and contempt” are likely to be so-called conservatives, like you. ”
not by the slightest, as a matter of fact the outcasts nowadays are people from rural america, that mostly votes conservatives. Let’s take one of those in Manhattan or Seattle and see how much ‘love’ he feels.
“And how many cases can you cite where a kid with one of those traits has also been ostracized by his/her own family, and/or church?”
Church is not mandatory as far as I know. Family: every family is different and nobody can judge from outside. You can be rejected by your family for a multitude of reasons (marrying the wrong person, inner-fights, money etc) so color me unimpressed again at the desperate search for something to be pitied upon.
Instead of ad hominem attacks try to clean up your house first. The article in topic is a clear example on why a behavioural examination is in order, not much on the girl of the story, but of all the others pretending not to see the elephant in the room.
Yup.
Can I second V_the_K’s “Yup” comment @ 23? Because that statement from susan that he quotes may be one of the best things I’ve read here in the comments in a while. 🙂
Dan (and American Elephant), to answer your question if AE is right, I have to say first that I’m not sure who “them” refers to regarding supporting traditional marriage. But that aside, I don’t think AE is wrong, but I do think it depends on whether one thinks traditional marriage is mutually exclusive from same-sex marriage, especially in a civil construct rather than religious. Personally I do not think so. I respect that some disagree.
“In a sane world, the story of Matthew Shepard would be a cautionary tale about a young man who unwisely left a bar to have sex and do drugs with strangers he just met.”
My partner I have always felt that if Matthew Shepard was open carrying a firearm, he would be alive today.
My favorite t-shirt :
“Don’t mess with me, my partner is packing heat”
Because leftism is a mental disorder.
Liberalism is nothing but a cult of hate and violence. The Gay Activist movement is just a subset of the Liberal Enemy.
There is a danger here, in that by hewing to the liberal line, the Gay community will attract some haters. “I don’t hate you because you’re gay. I hate you because you’re Liberal. Liberals hate me, so I hate them back. Now, if enough gays fall into that liberal identity, you become the enemy. Nothing personal, but you’re expendable.”
It’s collateral damage, because there is no price too steep to pay to defeat Leftism / Liberalism.
I do think a lot of liberals are addicted to being victims of somebody, somewhere.
They often want there to be malice and are willing to create it in order to put themselves at the center of the victimhood storm.
At what point can it be considered “rampant”? Is there a mark or a certain level? I’m thinking this is the same as the fake noose or racist graffiti incidents on college campi. Remember the chick/dude that vandalized a DNC headquarters about the same time SPLC was making asinine claims that Tea Partiers were engaging in vandalism of poor liberal office holders just minding their own business?
Likewise, I don’t see the difference between this and the manufactured circus surrounding the Jenna 6 kerfuffle, the Duke Lacrosse kerfuffle and all the bullshit associated with the Trayvon Martin shooting. Is it possible that Fast and Furious was all about whipping up the American public into a frenzy so that the “crisis” could be exploited and people would gladly give up their freedom? I think it’s entirely possible.
So, what we have are NUMEROUS occasions where liberals manufacture crimes to elicit pity with the intent on exploiting it for personal, financial and political gain. When can we call it “rampant”? Liberals, almost daily, create a “crisis” that must be overcome. When do we say “enough” and damn the people engaged in it?
And really, when you boil it down, I don’t see a lot of difference between this and all the other examples of bullshit crises liberals create to exploit for their gain.
*Global Warmism
*Kids are too fat
*Kids are starving in the streets
*40 million…no, 47 million…wait, it’s actually 30 million people don’t have health care and are dying in the streets
*Alar on apples
*The Draft
*More black churches burned if you vote for Bush
*Harry Reid manufacturing a crisis over federal disaster aid
*”War on women”
I can go on and on with bullshit crises that liberals invent in order to gain power and cash while eroding our liberties under the guise of protecting us. Problem is, these are the same dipshits that usually cause the problem in the first place.
Long story short, Vincy, I would absolutely say this crap is rampant. It’s what the liberals thrive on. They don’t DARE campaign on what they actually intend on doing so their only hope is that the American people are just stupid and gullible.
You are right, though. It’s not new. We’ve seen the same thing in Germany, Russia, Cuba, Vietnam, China, Cambodia, Venezuela etc.
I think gays and Jews are relatively close in number as percentages of the US population, actually. (Both are under 5%.)
And, um… I’ve certainly met some older Jews who are still milking the “trauma” of having to sing carols about Baby Jesus when they were in public school during the Eisenhower administration. (As well as some younger Jews who cite examples of “rampant Christian hegemony” that happened decades before they themselves were actually born.)
I don’t mean to single out Jews — I could have also mentioned blacks who obsess about reparations for an injustice that officially ended in 1865 — just observing that this is not an exclusively gay phenomenon.