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Originally posted by Undertoad
Dave is saying that it's society that makes him sad, and I'm agreeing with him.
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Well, that's what I thought; but his words didn't exactly say that. I thought I'd comment on it.
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I'm recalling the way I felt, and I think the way USians felt, the weeks following 9/11. As much as I don't bring it up, it was an odd feeling at times that all of a sudden we weren't all different groups any longer, but that all of a sudden everything that everyone felt brought us completely together. We weren't straights and gays, whites and blacks and asians and puerto ricans, poor rich or middle class, etc. We were just americans trying to figure out what happens next.
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There's a lot of truth in that; the threat we felt at that time was monsterous enough that it made a lot of our differences seem small by comparison.
But it didn't take long for that to evaporate for some folks. Two days after the attack, Falwell and Robertson were on TV blaming gays and lesbians (among other despised groups such as pagans) for it, saying: 'I point the finger in their face and say, "You helped this happen".'
Idiotarians of the Right, indeed.
Four weeks after 9/11 the AP ran a picture worldwide of a sailor loading a Taliban-targeted bomb bearing the graffiti legend, "High Jack This, Fags." Pretty ironic considering the Taliban punished homosexuals by sharia law: lining them up against a stone wall and then pushing it over on them.