• Dong! Dan's Bank Balance Just Gets Better! Want Dan Savage to speak at your college? That'll be $24,000, please! The official voice of American gay privilege don't come cheap. Hopefully Dan throws in his classic "Say 'Yes' To War On Iraq!" routine for free. [Update: Savage tells a conference he wants; "Population control: there's too many goddamn people on the planet. You know, I'm pro-choice, I believe that women should have a right to control their bodies. Sometimes in my darker moments, I'm anti-choice. I think abortion should be mandatory for about 30 years." Erm...]
• Dong! Our Owen Jones has made a short film for the BBC explaining the continuing relevance of Karl Marx to, I think, Blue Peter viewers. Owen is taking part in the Bonfire Of Austerity action in Westminster this evening. Which clashes with the Million Mask March. [Update: Irony alert as media only report on the latter Anonymous protest to say a celebrity turned up! Luckily Russell Brand took off his mask so people knew who he was. Celebactivism? No thank you!].
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• And finally, the US Senate has passed ENDA - the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. It's still perfectly legal to sack LGBT workers in most states in America, but this is a start towards stopping that. But why get angry about something that actually impacts on the lives of ordinary lesbians and gay men in your own country, when you can whine on about something less important in Russia?
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Won't somebody please think of the children?!
ReplyDeleteWell that all seems pointlessly vitriolic, not to mention utterly self contradictory.
ReplyDeleteSurely your comment about Savage comes under your whining about issues not in your own country rule. Your comment about ENDA also falls foul of this dictat.
Less important issue in Russia - must assume you're referring to the existence of a bigoted composer, rather that the extreme violence against homosexuals.
Can you explain how protesting an LSO concert in London will affect anti-gay violence n Russia, please?
DeleteI don't feel much like defending Tatchell's protest, i have little reason to presume it will affect the affairs of Russia. Nonetheless, It wouldn't be hard to put a reasonably coherent, possibly naive defence, with which i could at least sympathise.
DeleteIn my previous comment, in no way was such a notion implied or defended. Instead, exclusively, i was criticising the contents of your own commentary given in the original post. An obtuse contrarian melange of half a dozen loosely related topics, any one of which taken by themselves, i've no doubt you could have given serious substantive treatment. Instead, you threw together this Cut-up, which at face value, at best appears like some leftist anachronism.