In what appears to be a prank, someone put up signs in a park in Columbus OH announcing a “Straight White Guy Festival.” And, naturally, some bitter leftists grievance queens got their knickers in a twist about it.
“This kind of thing implies there’s some kind of struggle going on for being a straight white person in Ohio. Straight white people are doing just fine,” said Michael Premo.
Premo heads an organization pushing same-sex marriage. He says the flyer is not productive.
“I think it detracts from the real problems of Ohio that need to be solved, that are being denied their constitutional rights because of who they are, or who the love. And that’s what we really need to work on and this is just kind of a distraction.”
So straight white guys have no struggles? It seems like they have plenty of problems.
How about getting sex from their wives?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/relationships/10979082/Frustrated-husband-creates-spreadsheet-of-wifes-excuses-for-not-having-sex-with-him.html
What about the very look of disgust and intolerance o the left when those three words are utter straight white guy like it’s some profane thing that is falsely chalked up as being a bigot without evidence. Everyone else can be proud of who they are and shove it down pols throat but ohhh if you utter the fact that you are proud of being straight of Caucasian ethnicity and male that’s a nono. I’m with Ben Carson when he said this country is becoming Nazi Germany with it’s leftist totalitarian idealogy. I haven’t seen one progressive either that wasn’t sticking up for leftist ideas. They’re hypocrites too
Straight White Guys are without moral status in our Brave New World. Like unloved Rich Old Uncles, they may have money and some power, but when faced with whining women, gays, or Peeps de Couleur, they have no ground to stand on. And they certainly cannot sound their own trumpet, be proud or, God forbid, assert themselves in their own interests. Then they be raciss, sexiss, homophobic, blah blah blah. The Straight White Guys who created and maintained Western civilization are now moral pariahs within it. One of the most bizarre events in human history.
I am getting sick and tired of “poor me” victims – people that seek out any opportunity to declare themselves victims of the Eeeevilllll white-male patriarchy.
Here we have the NAA(L)CP claiming that getting one’s water service disconnected for not paying one’s bill is motivated by (you’ll never guess) racism.
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2014/07/21/naacp-detroit-water-service-shutoffs-are-racially-motivated/
Like most progressive efforts, the same-sex marriage push appears to be designed, first and foremost, to impugn and alienate those who wish to live their lives in what we used to call “traditional ways”. As usual, the “tolerant” are viciously intolerant.
Not that it matters, I am beginning to rethink my support for same-sex marriage, not because I think it’s a bad idea per se, but because it’s used as a cudgel to bludgeon people that, for the most part, just want to live their lives and raise their children as they see fit and to be left alone.
Given the last few years, I am 100 percent certain that once same-sex marriage is the law of the land, polygamous marriage and who knows what else will be up next. I wouldn’t have conceded that point five years ago. I was wrong.
@ KCRob: I’ve always suspected that Leftists had an ulterior motive for supporting gay marriage. The evidence of recent years has convinced me of that.
I think I’m going to play with the Leftists: I live in a state where same-sex relationships are recognized as “marriages.” When me and the man I choose to spend the rest of my life with go to get legal recognition, I will request that the license be changed to something other than “marriage,” with all the legal perks intact.
Won’t that be a catch-22? If the justice refuses to call my relationship something other than a marriage, even if it is legally identical, then he reveals that there is motivation to call it a “marriage.” If the justice agrees, then he gives momentum to those who say, “give them the rights, but don’t call it marriage” for religious and cultural reasons.
Why do you have to be oppressed or a victim to have a group identity?
hmmm, this gives me an idea that just might get me fired.
But, here goes. At my company (rather I should say the company that I slave for) has a whole lot of “diversity” campaigns. And as most here can guess there is one for just about every group/category except for straight white guys. Maybe I should propose that they create a group for them and see how management responds?
@ Charles: But if you did that, you would obviously have to be a Nazi. Because white people don’t take interest in their own well-being unless they’re Nazis.
If you want to know who has more power than you, figure out whom you cannot criticize. If you want to know if you are a free man or a slave, ask yourself if you can argue your case on any grounds.
Well, I know where I will be on the 20th of September.
Sean L:
Point?
“We Are Utterly Humorless About Our Activism”
And utterly unintelligent about our activities.
Remember — only non-straight, non-white, non-Christian non-males are allowed to celebrate their identity.
In addition to being utterly humorless, I’ve realized that Leftists are utterly boring. Had a Facebook acquaintance who couldn’t do anything more original than link to anti-Zionist and anti-theist articles and regurgitate anti-Zionist and anti-theist talking points. When I attempted to debate him, he ignored me and continued his posting like a machine.
Compare this dogmatic recitation to the Right, where most writers are at least able to make a variation on a theme. It’s like what C.S. Lewis said: “How monotonous the tyrants are. How varied the saints are.”