From NRO’s The Corner:
I must say I thought this guy’s sign was pretty funny:
Daniel Ginnes carried a banner declaring: “No More Mr Nice Gay.”
But some of these other post-Prop 8 ructions are surreal:
Unfortunately the “blame the blacks” meme is being commonly accepted by some so-called “progressive” gay activists. A number of Rod 2.0 and Jasmyne Cannick readers report being subjected to taunts, threats and racist abuse… Geoffrey was called the n-word at least twice.
It was like being at a klan rally except the klansmen were wearing Abercrombie polos and Birkenstocks. YOU N*****, one man shouted at me. If your people want to call me a F*****, I will call you a n*****… A young WeHo clone said after last night the n*****s better not come to West Hollywood if they knew what was BEST for them.
The media were warning that if the election went the wrong way there’d be riots, but I didn’t realize they meant Klansmen in Abercrombie polos roaming West Hollywood itching for a rumble.
All is not well in liberal-land…but it is no surprise at all that there would be these fissures as the liberal coalition is inherently incompatible and only glued together by a common defense of abortion and support – at this time – for Barack Obama. I mean, quite honestly, what do West Hollywood gay activists have in common with working class blacks in Compton? Other than both having a distaste for Republicans and an adoration of Obama, not a thing.
The lesson here is the ability of we GOPers to work our way in between these cracks – there are black Americans who will come to our side over social issues; there are gay Americans who will come to our side over the concept of judicial restraint…we can put together a real coalition based on common ideals, but containing within it the freedom to dissent from this or that aspect of the over-arching program. We need to set to work with a will to expand our coalition at the expense of liberalism and especially those hard left parts of it.
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