Andrew Sullivan is a case in point why it takes me years and years to trust so-called conservative "converts." His support of Obama was a blip, not a sea-change.
But after enthusiastically going after trans people himself, now he's surprised his allies are coming for gays? As someone on twitter said, "oh look, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions."
Unlike all the anti-CRT morons who couldn’t define what it is, Rufo was evil enough to see that very deficiency as the key to making a legal theory into the latest racist rallying cry. Nominally educated “intellectuals” like Sully don’t care what it means because it’s a perfect smokescreen for their own racism. Who is surprised that the high profile Iraq war supporter is also a racist? It’s not like he hasn’t promoted racism throughout his career
Sullivan is, of course, high up on my list of those prominent people who. Get a shit ton of publicity, as it were, while not mattering at all.
Sully, tho’, has earned much bad karma by my reckoning for:
Being Mort Zuckerman’s tool during the time that the New Republic — well, as I going say POS but let’s say of least relevance except to Zionists and, of course, published the Bell Curve piece; and
Preaching safe sex whilst famously engaging in not safe sex. I know calling out conservatives for hypocrisy is too obvious to bother with, but still.
Eh, maybe I should add being something of a proto-Glenn Greenwald.
All that said, while I’m sure the Maestro’s version of Sullivan is undoubtedly fully divorced from reality, it’s more than sufficiently mocking so 👍🏻
The only thing I know about Rufo is that he did something extremely unusual among right-wing activists: He openly admitted that the nonsense he was peddling was nonsense, but he didn't care because it was *effective* nonsense.
But time moves on, anti-CRT hysteria is so 2021, a man's got house and car payments to make, Rufo needs a piece of that lucrative "Groomers in the Schools" action.
And then Sullivan, who was thrilled to buy a bottle of Dr. Rufo's Miracle Elixir last year, is shocked, SHOCKED I TELL YOU, to find him selling Florida swampland this year. What a boob. What an absolute boob.
Mr Sullivan can't understand that the people who say 'a woman can not have a penis because that is not what a "woman" is' are the same people who say (note, not 'said') 'a man can not be married to a man because that is not what a "marriage" is' because in his mind the first is Right and the Second is Wrong, and what greater distinction could there be between two ideas than his opinion of them?
Pope Leo XIII who wrote that a good Catholic could not support unlimited freedom of speech or of thought because such would treat Truth and Error equally—though he _did_ allow for unlimited freedom on issues on which the LORD allowed differences of opinion.
(Note that the Pope's opinion on freedom to be wrong about Transubstantiation is uncomfortably close to mine with regard to racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny, genocide…save that I'm against laws against such, I just want norms and corporate/academic rules against hostile environments—and a strong welfare state, so that people with opinions so odious that they can't find work don't starve, since by reflex I don't trust the judgements of the State _or_ the Market.)
Remember how right-wing opposition to gay marriage used to allegedly be based on the fear that it would cause apocalyptic damage to the almighty Institution of The Family? And then it turned out that it didn't do anything even vaguely like that, and the right-wingers' lives didn't change even a tiny bit? It was my impression that they had sort of given up, maybe even made some steps towards being generally less homophobic, but now that T**** has made open bigotry respectable again, with the entire GOP eagerly following suit, there's no need not to just be a naked, unalloyed shithead. The new "justification" seems to be just one tiny step above snarling "god hates fags" at people. I mean, that was ALWAYS a big part of the justification, but now that there's not even theoretically a more high-minded argument they can make, it seems like this is all we're going to be getting for the indefinite future.
The thing about today's PedoMania is that it's "What's the worst thing we can think of?" followed immediately by "Yeah, let's call the other team that."
Which Sullivan should totally recognize, because right after 9/11 when "worst thing we can think of" was "terrorist" (or at minimum "terrorist sympathizer") Sullivan was right in front with "Yeah, let's call the other team that."
This was so on target it could have been a transcription. Both Rufo and Sullivan ethered in the kill jar and pinned to the mounting paper. Two more for the collection.
Andrew Sullivan is a case in point why it takes me years and years to trust so-called conservative "converts." His support of Obama was a blip, not a sea-change.
But after enthusiastically going after trans people himself, now he's surprised his allies are coming for gays? As someone on twitter said, "oh look, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions."
Unlike all the anti-CRT morons who couldn’t define what it is, Rufo was evil enough to see that very deficiency as the key to making a legal theory into the latest racist rallying cry. Nominally educated “intellectuals” like Sully don’t care what it means because it’s a perfect smokescreen for their own racism. Who is surprised that the high profile Iraq war supporter is also a racist? It’s not like he hasn’t promoted racism throughout his career
Sullivan is, of course, high up on my list of those prominent people who. Get a shit ton of publicity, as it were, while not mattering at all.
Sully, tho’, has earned much bad karma by my reckoning for:
Being Mort Zuckerman’s tool during the time that the New Republic — well, as I going say POS but let’s say of least relevance except to Zionists and, of course, published the Bell Curve piece; and
Preaching safe sex whilst famously engaging in not safe sex. I know calling out conservatives for hypocrisy is too obvious to bother with, but still.
Eh, maybe I should add being something of a proto-Glenn Greenwald.
All that said, while I’m sure the Maestro’s version of Sullivan is undoubtedly fully divorced from reality, it’s more than sufficiently mocking so 👍🏻
Sully never thought the leopard would eat HIS face
Another reason why I would LOVE to be turned by a Vampire, so I can run around all night, and drain and rip the throats out of fools like this.
I wouldn’t be a monster…I’d be doing a public service!
I really, honestly want to know where Sullivan thought this whole anti-Trans push was going to end up.
The only thing I know about Rufo is that he did something extremely unusual among right-wing activists: He openly admitted that the nonsense he was peddling was nonsense, but he didn't care because it was *effective* nonsense.
But time moves on, anti-CRT hysteria is so 2021, a man's got house and car payments to make, Rufo needs a piece of that lucrative "Groomers in the Schools" action.
And then Sullivan, who was thrilled to buy a bottle of Dr. Rufo's Miracle Elixir last year, is shocked, SHOCKED I TELL YOU, to find him selling Florida swampland this year. What a boob. What an absolute boob.
Mr Sullivan can't understand that the people who say 'a woman can not have a penis because that is not what a "woman" is' are the same people who say (note, not 'said') 'a man can not be married to a man because that is not what a "marriage" is' because in his mind the first is Right and the Second is Wrong, and what greater distinction could there be between two ideas than his opinion of them?
Pope Leo XIII who wrote that a good Catholic could not support unlimited freedom of speech or of thought because such would treat Truth and Error equally—though he _did_ allow for unlimited freedom on issues on which the LORD allowed differences of opinion.
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_20061888_libertas.htm
(Note that the Pope's opinion on freedom to be wrong about Transubstantiation is uncomfortably close to mine with regard to racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny, genocide…save that I'm against laws against such, I just want norms and corporate/academic rules against hostile environments—and a strong welfare state, so that people with opinions so odious that they can't find work don't starve, since by reflex I don't trust the judgements of the State _or_ the Market.)
Remember how right-wing opposition to gay marriage used to allegedly be based on the fear that it would cause apocalyptic damage to the almighty Institution of The Family? And then it turned out that it didn't do anything even vaguely like that, and the right-wingers' lives didn't change even a tiny bit? It was my impression that they had sort of given up, maybe even made some steps towards being generally less homophobic, but now that T**** has made open bigotry respectable again, with the entire GOP eagerly following suit, there's no need not to just be a naked, unalloyed shithead. The new "justification" seems to be just one tiny step above snarling "god hates fags" at people. I mean, that was ALWAYS a big part of the justification, but now that there's not even theoretically a more high-minded argument they can make, it seems like this is all we're going to be getting for the indefinite future.
The thing about today's PedoMania is that it's "What's the worst thing we can think of?" followed immediately by "Yeah, let's call the other team that."
Which Sullivan should totally recognize, because right after 9/11 when "worst thing we can think of" was "terrorist" (or at minimum "terrorist sympathizer") Sullivan was right in front with "Yeah, let's call the other team that."
This was so on target it could have been a transcription. Both Rufo and Sullivan ethered in the kill jar and pinned to the mounting paper. Two more for the collection.