Dan Savage’s schtick is based on two things: bitter, unhinged hatred of Republicans, Christians, and decent people in general and encouraging people to have promiscuous sleazy sex. Which is why, despite having all the charm of a cold sore, he’s become the leading media spokesperson for the LGBT subculture. His values and those of the media align pretty much perfectly.
In his latest “Savage Love” column in 50 papers, leftist gay activist/sex columnist Dan Savage discussed a recent talk he gave at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco as part of their lecture series “Uninhibited: About Sex.” He was celebrating what he called “the sex-positive movement” and the 25th anniversary of what he called “my skeezy sex column.”
“I’m not at all concerned about the potential destruction/implosion of the GOP—those [swear words, because queens who want to look tough use lots of swear words] have it coming—but with the likelihood of political violence. I’m concerned that black and brown people—Latinos, Muslims, African Americans—will be subjected to more political/social/economic violence than they already are. People will die as a direct result of Trump getting the GOP nomination. This is a terrifying moment.”
In reality, people are already dying because of the Obama-Bush loosy-goosey immigration policy. Fourteen were murdered in San Diego by an Islamist who got through the Obama Administration’s screening process apparently using a fake name that no one even bothered to check. Hundreds more die as a result of gang violence, drunk drivers, and violent crime because of the Obama Administration’s refusal to control who gets into this country, and refusal to deport anyone until *after* they commit a violent crime.
Dan Savage is probably okay with illegal immigrants murdering people because some of them might be Republicans.
And lets not mention the tens of thousands who will die because of health care policy.
Something funny about anti-Trump protest: they all say that he’s “obviously” racist, but when asked what kinds of racist statements he’s said, they can’t really come up with anything, and then say something like CNN/MSNBC said he’s racist, so it must be true.
Savage loves to through out violent tidbits hoping to get a rise. It’s how he’s always operated. During the 90s it was all about chumming the waters with his vulgarity & explicitness, in an otherwise 2nd rate Seattle weekly.
We should remember that Dan Savage is already on record calling for Republicans to be murdered.
Not to mention how the hate rhetoric that he and organizations like the SPLC push has already been linked to terrorist attacks on Christian organizations.
As usual, it’s projection. Dan Savage is a violent and hateful bigot, and he projects that onto anyone who disagrees with him.
The ONLY reason I care about Dan Savage is that I’m shallow and his toyboy-husband is pretty.
25th anniversary? Seriously, does Dan Savage still have any social relevance? I though he had been relegated to obscure pod cast from his couch.
Steve
Pensacola, FL
@ Ted B.: *Dragqueen mode activated* “Oh honey, no…”
*Dragqueen mode disengaged* The Rocky-wannabe that Savage wheels around gives me the willies. He looks fake, like somebody took a Ken doll and brought it to life.
I mean, come on. Those two fail the leather test. Any man’s sex appeal should go up when they are in leather. Their nonexistent sex appeal does not.
Chicago cops respecting blacks by not doing street stops.
“- stops are down 90% and shootings are up 80%? But there is no such thing as an “ACLU effect”?
http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2016/04/stops-are-still-down.html
@ V the K: What, intriguing because I have a predilection for men in processed cow skins? I thought as quirks go, that was practically a non-quirk as far as homos go.
I blame the internet. I was an impressionable high school graduate looking at pictures of guys in leather jackets on motorcycles, and suddenly then it was hairy, well-muscled men in leather gear who were a brand-new sort of intriguing. Moth to the flame, butterfly on the millstone, all that jazz.
As for the Savages in leather, let’s just say I was perusing and happened across a picture of them at a particular event. Both were mercifully clothed in relatively modest wear, but I was rather put-off all the same. Haven’t been back to the same site for fear of repeats. Brrrrrr…..
Dan Savage is a secular Jew; what do you expect?
you mention the san bernadino killer, well the dept of colonization has been letting the worse people they can find into this country for decades: the Colombian drug gangs, the Russian mob, Ukrainian gangs, the boston bombers and on and on. the boston bombers rate a special mention. the tszarnaev family was allowed to come to this country on vacation by their government. they supposedly were so afraid of that government that they asked for and were granted political asylum by our department of colonization. while in this country and living on the dole they were allowed by said department to travel back and forth to the country that they were afraid for their life to live in. it was on one of these trips that the older brother was taught how to make pressure cooker bombs. this shows how much the leftists in the dept. of colonization care about the security of the american people. I don’t believe any of this is an accident or incompetence. I am a firm believer in the idea that there are no unintended leftist consequences.
Dan Savage was raised Catholic.
San Bernardino. The attacks were in San Bernardino, not San Diego. Get it right, please. San B.e.r.n.a.r.d.i.n.o
Indeed. As previously discussed in the GP comments section, he’s rather bitter about that fact.
Thanks for that. I reread the post several times, wondering when I had apparently slept through an attack in Sandy Eggo.
Which is pretty mind-boggling. Speaking as an on-again off-again Catholic, a Catholic who is homosexual has three options: conform to the Church’s teaching on homosexuality and strive to live a life of abstinence; dissent from Church teaching and engage in homosexual unions, while either respecting Church protocol for how Catholics in a state of unrepentant sin should behave in relation to the Blessed Sacrament, or ignore that protocol and prove that you really don’t give a damn about Church teaching or Catholicism in general; or find a denomination that better fits your lifestyle and beliefs. And then they live with it. Throwing a hissy-fit because you can’t have your cake and eat it won’t do you any good.
Well, “Savage” has typically been a Jewish last name (think Fred Savage of The Wonder Years or Ben Savage of Boy Meets World). Maybe his parents were converts to Christianity.
@ Paul: Apparently his mother’s maiden name was “Schneider.” According to his Wikipedia page, he’s part Irish and German. No mention of any Jewish ancestry.
I have never understood why the turds who engage in this type of behavior think that it does any good at all other than pointing out how bitter and angry they are and succeeding in getting others to not empathize with their point of view. Particularly in the light of current practice where a major world religion gets tons of free passes by many of the forces in the culture wars.
Oh, and as to the subject of the post, I can’t believe he gets the attention and carriage (50 papers?!) he does. He’s like the Barack Obama of advice columnists, without the Ivy League degree.
I was just reading a slideshow from the Telegraph [UK] of Truman Capote quotes. He, too, was crass at times and famously bitchy; but possessed a rapier wit and got his points across much more effectively. Dopey Dan would do well to learn from him.