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Originally Posted by Semantics
It's so maddening that we have what is, essentially, a spokesperson from a hate group invited onto news programs as if he is some sort of authority.
Sprigg is the same guy who last year said that we should all be exported out of the country because we're destructive to society.
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This is where I get torn. On the one hand, I WANT people like Sprigg, as long as they exist, to be out in the public eye where we can see them coming. What's more, I want people to actually see them and then have to ask themselves "am I on their side". This is what I think was the doom of the segregationists. I have no illusion that white people in America woke up one day circa 1964 with universal love and fellow-feeling for black people. I think they woke up, saw screaming, hateful white faces attacking calm, peaceful, sometimes terrified black faces and thought "well, I may not know anything about blacks, I may not want my kid to marry one, but I know I'm not on the side of those guys with the fire hose and baseball bats..."
I ALSO want folks like Sprigg and his lot on TV so that WE don't get complacent. For too long I watched the gay movement (at least the Left leaning side of it) play this game of on the one hand talking about how the patriarchy oppresses queer people (true as far as it goes) but then pretending, sometimes in the same diatribe, that the most visible and obvious manifestation of that patriarchal mindset was no more than a few hundred under-educated people meeting in a couple of basement churches with no political or cultural influence. And time and time again, they beat us at the ballot box. Yet, we didn't take them seriously.
Having someone get on TV and hearing them say "I want to make a law against you" focuses the mind quite wonderfully.
Cheers
Aj