December 27, 2013 Life on GLAAD's Blacklist By Robert Oscar Lopez
Readers will have to forgive me for sounding angry, but the recent news involving GLAAD has enraged me. Mark Steyn's most recent piece in National Review sums up some of the worst aspects of the epic saga known as GLAAD v. Duck Dynasty.
Steyn resonates with me on one key point: yes, GLAAD is ridiculous and foolish. We knew this. But some conservatives who should know better are truly pathetic. A National Review editor scolds Steyn for being "puerile," while people on Fox News say that Phil Robertson should have been suspended. Pusillanimous obeisance to false ideology isn't exclusive to left or right.
A bunch of people on the left (see here and here) called GLAAD out, and I'm glad they did. Yet a bunch of people on the right are still terrified of GLAAD, or else actually believe that it's defamation to say negative things or think negative thoughts about homosexuality.
In case you don't know the full extent of GLAAD's fascism, let me tell you what GLAAD did to me.
I won't hyperlink this, but if you go to GLAAD's website and seek out their "commentator accountability project," you will find my name. This is GLAAD's blacklist. Within hours of GLAAD's publication of my addition to the list, which amounts to an excommunication from polite society, an e-mail was sent to the president of my university, along with dozens of other high officials in California, with the announcement: ROBERT OSCAR LOPEZ PLACED ON GLAAD WATCH LIST.
the GLAAD types have pushed and pushed the American people to the point that if you don't agree with their beliefs then you are guilty of hate and are a bigot.
Don't we all wish that we could get off that easy?
We could so easily brand Pelosi and Reid as hateful bigots, oh yes, in a flash!!!
But the problem is to label them as hagteful bigot is sloppy thinking.
The irony is that for their target audience? it works really well !!! For example, over 350,000 have signed a petition to the White House asking for Westboro Baptist Church to be labeled a hate group. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petitio...-group/DYf3pH2d
I'm pretty sure nobody here likes WBC or supports their message, that's not the point. their idiocy is protected free speech under the First Amendment, at least as understood traditionally. What tomorrow holds is yet to be seen.