Good reading, bad reading

[derien]

Via beowabbit I've been reading an interesting article (yesterday morning, actually, because I just noticed I didn't post this when it was timely); Prop 8 Struck Down: The Decision.

And in bad reading, someone named yujiao spammed my last entry. I deleted the comments, marked them spam and blocked her/him.

Comments

[beowabbit]

There is never any once and for all with right wing nuts. They're like guerrilla fighters.

Yeah, but the thing is, their kids don’t hate gay people. Their kids may still be right-wing nuts 20 years from now, but they won’t be homophobic right-wing nuts. They’ll be anti-immigrant right-wing nuts, or whatever, but homophobia is dying, and has been at varying rates and from various starting points all over the world, and while the right-wing nuts may be able to slow that down a fraction of a percent, I think they’re too late to reverse or stop it.

What’s more, the fact that the right-wing nuts hate gay people and their kids think that’s silly is going to increase the likelihood that their kids roll their eyes and think it’s silly when the right-wing nuts rant about the immigrants or the “activist judges” or “death panels” or the Kenyan-born Muslim in the White House or bike trials being a Communist U.N. plot. So it will actually decrease the likelihood of the kids adopting their parents’ right-wing nuttery at all.

(All gross generalizations of course, but generally true in aggregate, I think.)

[derien.livejournal.com]

Yeah, when one ravening opinion is clearly off the wall it does make the others a little suspect, so you're probably right that it will over-all help. :)