Bill O’Reilly is nothing if not a right-wing, talking-points machine, baby! And his latest is a culture war between lesbigays and African-Americans. The first thing you need to know about this war is…
A CULTURE WAR BETWEEN GAYS AND BLACKS DOESN’T EXIST AND IT’S NOT GONNA HAPPEN, SO SHUT THE FUCK UP, BILL O’REILLY
First off, what’s Queen Latifah supposed to do, spontaneously split in two?
Repeating this nonsense threatens to catch on, though, among those for whom independent thought is… unlikely-approaching-impossible. We’re talking about a public sucking on the irrational teat of Faux News all these years and knocked into unconsciousness by the antiscience, antilogic and antireality forces of the Republigious right wing in America. This phenomenon is, I think, particularly and peculiarly American, though hardly one to celebrate.
Here’s Bill a couple of nights ago:
He repeated the myth of a looming culture war between gays and blacks on tonight’s broadcast – and you can see Bill’s desk tilt upwards from his obvious erection while reporting this drivel – but, really, one O’Reilly clip per post is more than enough, innit?
Ayway, the meme is repeated, this time from equally-fucked-in-the-head douchebag Tony Perkins, on last night’s Anderson Cooper 360, except this time, he has the clever and uncowed Dan Savage to counter his fuckwittery without breaking a sweat:
Okay, I’ll admit to getting a bit of a chubby over Dan. Seriously, could you love him more? Suh-woon! (Did you notice Whoopi and the gays, like, totally beating on each other at the start of that clip? Me neither.)
But the salient point here is that the witless repetition of this tired, false and downright evil meme has begun. And you can already see it repeated in interviews and, more virally, in Republigious trolls’ comments on blogs everywhere.
Oh, for the record? I rarely edit or delete comments here at This.That.No Other., and I credit the clever and even-keeled folks who’ve posted over 3000 of ‘em. But like Joan Crawford famously warned… don’t fuck with me, fellas.
ADDENDUM: In a move sure to surprise absolutely no one, Republigious spokespig and notoriously obsessive, gay-blog habitueé Matt Barber gets added to the list of evil fucks* who’re trying to spread this disgusting, divisive meme to the wingnuts on the right.
*do NOT click on this link unless you’re prepared for some of the most hateful, odious, fucked-in-the-head drivel you’ve ever accidentally brushed up against.
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I wonder if his head would explode if he ever discovered that the two communities do intersect. You got black in my gay! You got gay in my black! Two great tastes that taste great together.
The thought of O’Reilly’s stiffened loofah makes my skin crawl. Right. Off. My. Bones.
Also, I guess no one told Billyboy that there are gays and lesbians in the black community–in all communities actually–and that none of us is monochromatic, figuratively or literally.
Such a tiny tiny mind.
Anybody remember that Saturday Night Live sketch that was supposed to be a TV-movie about the all-black unit in the Civil War meeting the all-gay unit?
Unfortunately that whole “really bald face lie repeated ad nauseum until it’s believed” strategy really works. It’s a time honoured campaign tactic.
So we’re doing the Blacks against Gays thing kinda like the Blacks against Jews thing, right? Not falling for it. I do hope this brings more gay black people out of the woodwork, because I believe that is part of the problem. The closets in the Black community overfloweth. Come on out y’all. I got your back. Whoopi has your back. Queen has your back. (Eddie Murphy would have your back if he could only be true to himself..ahem)
Come on, fellow minorities, do you want Bill O’Reilly to be right? Think about it.
Um, except for the fact that there has been a HUGE amount of racism being spewed out by lots of gay white bloggers towards the black community despite the fact that a lot of the exit poll statistics were pure bullshit. And there have been gay white people hurling racial epithets at black people at anti-Prop 8 rallies. My friend Shane stood several feet away from some white gay guy saying “Those fucking n*ggers had better never come to the Castro again” right here in San Francisco.
So while they’re may not be a looming “culture war” between blacks and gays, the stuff around Prop 8 has brought out some seriously problematic, racist shit no matter what (the overexposed and increasingly tired) Dan Savage might say.
I’m surprised you didn’t quote the disgusting statistic that exit polls reveal gays voted in surprising — if not staggering — numbers for McCain, too, which can mean (to me) only that there are a lot of greedy fucks or racist fucks (or both) in the lesbigay community. And, yeah, the level of homophobia in the black community initially defies logic, too.
Both of these scenarios require addressing, but even in the short term, an escalation of bitterness in America at this time is not the answer. I’ve spoken with a handful of my friends who happen to be both inverts and people of colour, and they tell me the level of homophobia in their own families and communities — the traditional place for support — is far more hurtful than the racism they experience in Lesbigyland.
But, again, we could argue back and forth about which is worse — homophobia or racism — and we could argue, too, that the effects of one are worse than the other and where does that get the members of both groups? Nowhere.
If anything, the biggest signal that the finger-pointing must stop is the writing of lesbian African-American Jasmyne Cannick, who I believe you reference in your own blog, Chris. I applaud her work in both communities, calling each out for the shit they throw at the other, and since she wrote that inflammatory op-ed piece saying the rights of lesbigay Californians matter not at all when it comes to focusing on Af-Am equality, she’s been both conciliatory and downright indignant about the whole thing. I just don’t know that she’s the best person to speak on the issue, since she’s uniquely positioned to bridge the divide and seems proud of her refusal to do so.
But, whatever. The election and ballot measures were two weeks away, the gay community, which worked so hard to get Obama elected, felt stung that the black and latino communities didn’t work so hard for us. There was massive failure on the No on 8 campaign and there remains alarming homophobia in black communities. Again: whatever. Do we point fingers, do we yell nasty shit? Yes, a very small number do.
My point in all of this is that when it’s Bill O’Reilly, Tony Perkins and Matt Barber who are fluffing up a culture war between gays and blacks, there could not be a clearer indication that we need to stop that shit and build those bridges. Like right, fucking now. And when they ask “why don’t you protest in front of black churches?” the only logical response is “why don’t you burn a few crosses?” because, for real, the ones asking why we don’t protest black churches have never been friends to the Af-Am community and would like nothing more than the two groups they hate and fear the most going after each other rather than them.
So, like, don’t do it.
i watched this anderson cooper spot, and i couldn’t help wondering if the guy on the right has ever had his wife go down on him.
probably not, it would mess up his good hair.
Slightly off topic, I know but…
Wanda. Sykes. Bitches!
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2008/11/15/wanda_sykes_comes_out
Please continue with your normal daily business.
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