Amanda Marcotte: Why The Same Rules That Apply To Ann Coulter , Don't Apply To Liberals
John Hawkins
Right Wing News
Boy, did the Edwards campaign miss out when Amanda Marcotte quit in a huff after catching flack for her anti-Christian rants. Here's her defense of the word "f*ggot" being used by her fellow ex-Edwards blogger at Shakespeare's Sister, something I pointed out earlier in the week:
<<< But Shakes’ quote is the best illustration that right-wingers are congenitally unable to consider context under any circumstances:
Oh, and by the way, my favorite rationale for this
decision [to study the Bible in public school]?
“How can students understand Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Last
Supper’ … if they don’t understand the reference from
which they came?” Johnson said.
Uh, you know, Mike—I’m not so sure it’s a good idea for
students to be studying that f*ggot anyway. You have a
thing or two to learn from Alabama, it seems.
That, my friends, is what’s known as sarcasm. What is offensive about a word is the sense in which it’s used.
Actually, I take it all back: Shakes was using the word to highlight how much conservatives hate gay people. Ann Coulter was using the word to highlight how much conservatives hate gay people. I guess there’s no difference in usage at all. >>>
See? Shakespeare's Sister was being sarcastic... er', as if Coulter wasn't? Moreover, Ann Coulter was showing how much, "conservatives hate gay people," by using the word f*ggot, but when Shakespeare's Sister used the same word, also in a sarcastic context, it doesn't show that liberals hate gay people...because she's a liberal.
After reading this post at Pandagon, the Edwards campaign is probably sending William Donahue a thank-you card for sparing them from seeing this sort of stupidity on their blog for the rest of the year.
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