From this Forbes article about Brokeback Mountain and its list of Golden Globe nominations:
Hmm…let’s see if I can think of some other roles played by attractive and popular young Hollywood actors…
Nope, I can’t think of a single one. You must be onto something, David!
Such a nice, strong, biblical name, “David”. Makes me want to take off my shoes and be simultaneously enlightened and impregnated by a balding pillar of virtue…
Oh how you make me long for the good old days, David. When the world was flat, women menstruated as punishment for Original Sin, and maggots would spontaneously generate from rotting meat…the way God intended it.
To you, David, and to those who listen to what you have to say, I thank you for giving me countless reasons to wake each day and rage against the machine.
You have to love the logic employed here (and in the rest of the column)though: “No one told me about it, therefore it WASN’T THAT WAY.” Which later morphs into “What they’re saying makes me feel icky, THEREFORE THEY’RE EVIL.” Awesome.
Like no black people at his school, and no blacks at the lunch counter. Hispanics stayed in the yard and Asian folks simply did not exist. Like women couldn’t get credit cards and needed their husbands approval to get a job. Girls died from illegal abortions. I am sure there is more, but I’m tired.
I bet he believes in George Washington and the apple tree.
People then didn’t think rock and roll was so harmless. They censored some songs and performances, and tried to keep kids and teens from being exposed to it, just like some people try to do with gangsta rap today. Songs were censored or banned for such things as referring to prostitution, drugs, alcohol, or sexual double-entendres. One instrumental song was banned by radio stations because its title, Rumble, was “suggestive of teenage violence”. People of that time objected to new songs on pretty much the same grounds that people today object to songs.
Someone like him could have very easily written a book like his in the 1950’s, or probably pretty much any time in human history, in any culture. And, in 50 years or so, when someone like him does write a book saying how much better things were at the turn of the 21st century, less hysterical people will cite his book and others like it as evidence that people now didn’t all think things were so wonderful.
I remember those too, David. So fucking what? I remember Superman in glorious black and white, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Sky King too. Like I said, so fucking what? This guy is a putz.
Heh. I grew up in this wonderful time. We were all sure we were going to get incinerated by the Russkies at any minute, and if that didn’t happen, the juvenile delinquents were going to get us.
What’s highly ironic is that one of the main points of what he’s saying is that various groups have promoted evil things in our culture by making them appear to be good.
He should ask his priest or minister what his church’s current views are on murder, stealing land (and other things), robbing graves, kidnapping and enslaving people, rape, adultery, deceptive business practices, and cutting people’s hands or feet off if they don’t mine enough gold for you. I suspect his church takes a dim view of that sort of thing, and might even label those activities evil. All of those things were done by various early white explorers of the Americas, who says our culture should portray as good.
There’s too much violets in America today. And isn’t violet one of them GAY colors? Just a hair off mauve and/or fuchsia, I believe, and those are DEFINITELY gay colors.