What a load of shit...
Gay teenagers are four times more likely to attempt suicide than heterosexuals as a result of constant harassment by homophobes.
Which is why portraying to children that homosexuality is wrong and abnormal, making them grow up viewing themselves as sub-human and subject to abuse from their peers, making them more prone to suicide, while ALSO claiming to do it to "protect children", and "protect the family" just boils my fucking piss.
UPDATE: Johann Hari writes on the same issue a little more eloquently than I managed to...
However, I did have a problem with this bit:
This issue is more about property rights than anything else – if you are not allowed to let whoever you want onto your property, who really owns it?
Johann Hari claims that he believes in freedom, but when your personal morals disagree with his, it is suddenly justifiable to use force to make you agree with him. Liberty means not only being able to do things you want to do without harming others, but also tolerating the things you vehemently disagree with. I—as you can probably tell—find the concept of denying people service because of who they are absolutely repulsive – and so do many others, which is why a boycott could bankrupt such a business very easily.
Despite Hari's much-needed words about the culture of homophobia in schools and the need to tackle it, I still despise him for being a statist shit. When that changes, I'll start to like him.
The Arkansas Harp grocery store deemed the picture – on the cover of magazine Us – too ‘offensive,’ and revealed they added the special cover to ‘protect children’ in response to several complaints from customers.
Gay teenagers are four times more likely to attempt suicide than heterosexuals as a result of constant harassment by homophobes.
Which is why portraying to children that homosexuality is wrong and abnormal, making them grow up viewing themselves as sub-human and subject to abuse from their peers, making them more prone to suicide, while ALSO claiming to do it to "protect children", and "protect the family" just boils my fucking piss.
UPDATE: Johann Hari writes on the same issue a little more eloquently than I managed to...
Here’s what is actually happening. A detailed study by the Schools Health Education Unit found that in Britain today, 70 percent of gay children get bullied, 41 percent get beaten up, and 17 percent get told at some point in their childhood that they are going to be killed.
I’ll tell you the story of just one of them. Jonathan Reynolds was a 15-year old boy from Bridgend in South Wales who was accused – accurately or not, we’ll never know – of being gay. He was yelled at for being a “faggot” and a “poof”. So one day, he sat a GSCE exam – later graded as an A - and went to the train tracks near his school and lay on them. He texted his sister: “Tell everyone that this is for anybody who eva said anything bad about me, see I do have feelings too. Blame the people who were horrible and injust to me, see I do have feeling too. Blame the people who were horrible and injust to me. This is because of them, I am human just like them. None of you blame yourself, mum, dad, Sam and the rest of the family. This is not because of you.” And then the train killed him.
I guess nobody told Jonathan Reynolds that, as the columnist Melanie Phillips put it, “just about everything in Britain is now run according to the gay agenda.” The great Gay Conquest didn’t make it from her imagination to his playground, or any playground in Britain. Gay kids are six times more likely to commit suicide than their straight siblings. Every week, I get emails from despairing gay kids who describe being thrown against lockers, scorned by their teachers if they complain, and – in some faith schools – told they will burn in Hell. Every day they have to brave playgrounds where the worst insult you can apply is to call something “gay”. They feel totally lost. This could have been your child, or my child, or Melanie Phillips’ child.
However, I did have a problem with this bit:
They can’t choose to offer a service to the general public, and then turn people away on the basis of race or sexuality. They can’t put up de facto signs saying ‘No blacks, no Irish, no gays’ at their B&B.
This issue is more about property rights than anything else – if you are not allowed to let whoever you want onto your property, who really owns it?
Johann Hari claims that he believes in freedom, but when your personal morals disagree with his, it is suddenly justifiable to use force to make you agree with him. Liberty means not only being able to do things you want to do without harming others, but also tolerating the things you vehemently disagree with. I—as you can probably tell—find the concept of denying people service because of who they are absolutely repulsive – and so do many others, which is why a boycott could bankrupt such a business very easily.
Despite Hari's much-needed words about the culture of homophobia in schools and the need to tackle it, I still despise him for being a statist shit. When that changes, I'll start to like him.
3 comments:
For the fucking children?! What a fucking load of bullshit. The only reason some backward fuckwits think homosexuality is unusual because until the last 10yrs or so it was deemed in someway wierd and noone saw homosexuals giving themselves away in public by behaving as they fucking well want to.
How an internationally renowned individual in a stable loving long term relationship (legally married at that - the magic love license from the state) with all the time and resources to focus on raising a child can't even be shown in public is entirely irrational. This level of insane disonance usually means god is on his way and the argument is about to turn mystical.
I am ok with the following but I don't see how such a ridiculous policy could have any claim of consistency if they allow magazine covers (triviality or what? He's not stealing or abusing babies) of famous individuals who are single parents, absentee parents, convicted criminals or coercive politicians.
It's a shame the libertarian movement seems to be predominately culturally conservative. As an individualist and anarchist that's fine but the prevalent attitude appears to be that homosexuality and other dangerous. Hedonisms are either tools of or excuses for authoritarian control. I think many libertarians are infact extreme radical conservatives to the point of being regressionists. They seem to hark back to some imagined classical liberalism before sex and drugs brought about totalitarian authority. I'm beginning to consider the label libertine rather than libertarian
"The Arkansas Harp grocery store deemed the picture – on the cover of magazine Us – too ‘offensive,’ and revealed they added the special cover to ‘protect children’ in response to several complaints from customers."
As ludicrous and irrational their decision may be, you have to respect the fact that this grocery store was indeed a privately owned business (Harps). It looks as though that complaints were received, and the business responded to them, what usually happens.
What's more is that this one covering of the magazine was only done in one of their 65 stores. This has just been a story that the media have blown way out of proportion.
Anyway,the covers have been taken off after the store had been jumped on by Gay Activist groups.
I just feel that no one should be able to require a private storekeeper to display something the private storekeeper doesn't want to display. He'll know if he's made a bad decision simply through loss of business.
"Johann Hari claims that he believes in freedom, but when your personal morals disagree with his, it is suddenly justifiable to use force to make you agree with him."
That's because Hari is approaching this from the identity politics angle, and not from the sensible one that bullying children in schools is wrong full stop.
Whether it's because they are gay, fat, thin, nerdy, ginger, or whatever.
But a campaign to get teachers to do their jobs on the discipline front won't advance the agenda Hari identifies with, and provide jobs for his chums...
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