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Wednesday, February 16, 2005

You said is, Sistah!
Posted by Jill | 4:31 PM

Shakespeare's Sistah, that is:

WHAT THE FUCK? You’ve got to be fucking kidding me! A conference that is geared toward preventing suicides in a community is being required to omit the four words that describe what the conference is about—you know, the words that will actually inform GLBT community members who might be at risk for suicide that there’s help to be found—because the administration doesn’t like those words (read: doesn’t like those people) and issues a thinly veiled threat to withhold their funding if they don’t comply with the change. But that isn’t the main point of the story. No. The main point is that these fucking assholes who clearly don’t give a shit whether every single member of the GLBT community offs themselves are being persecuted. The federally-funded bigots are getting angry emails, and that’s the motherfucking lead of the story. Unbelievable. Not to mention that fuckwits like Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh go around calling liberals traitors and jihadists and all kinds of fucked-up shit every day of the fucking week, and I don’t see that making headlines in the tossing WaPo.

You know what the headline of this piece of shit article is? “Request to Edit Title of Talk On Gays, Suicide Stirs Ire.” Subhead: “HHS Is Being Accused of Marginalization.”

How about “Request to Edit Title of Talk On Gays, Suicide Indicative of Continuing Attacks on GLBT Community by Administration.” Subhead: “HHS Is Practicing Bigotry.”

How about “Request to Edit Title of Talk on Gays, Suicide Risks Increasing Suicides Due to Misinformation.” Subhead: “HHS Not Concerned About Health of Gays”

How about “Request to Edit Title of Talk on Gays, Suicide Intolerably Prejudiced.” Subhead: “Blogger Goes Berserk.”

It’s complete bullshit that this story was framed so as to make the administration the victim of intolerance, right from the fucking headline. If only those gays weren’t so touchy, this wouldn’t even be a story. It’s the ire that makes the headline; not the underlying bigotry that induced it. By the time you get through reading about the ire, the incredible venom, and the fascist prick getting (apparently somehow unfairly) called a Nazi, does it even matter what people are mad about, or is the important thing that they’re clearly being unfair to the poor old Bush administration, who was only trying to whitewash any reference to gays out of a talk designed to possibly help save their lives? Do the calm and reasonable representatives of the conference have any chance to be heard fairly after the introduction identifying those who object as “venomous”?

Fucking WaPo wankers.
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