LJ Idol Season 9, Week 1: Jayus

[fourzoas]

That joke isn’t funny anymore
It’s too close to home
And it’s too near the bone
More than you’ll ever know.
-The Smiths

Two men stand beneath a sign welcoming travelers to Branson, MO, US midwest entertainment spot. They hold a sign between them, a long expanse of white vinyl with a word equation in red

”Diversity” = White GenocideThese men-and

Comments

[i_17bingo]

This is the single most thoughtful take on the subject I've seen.

It feels like a gross exaggeration of the kind of crap we hear all the time, like an Onion headline. I actually checked to make sure that that sign picture wasn't a hoax, like a ton of 2013 outrage stories turned out to be.

And we point and laugh.

We also point and laugh at Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church. Guys show up to their protests and mock and mock, and we think that this kind of homophobia is just for extremist dinosaurs...

And then Arizona's legislature passes a law that allows anybody to refuse service if they believe they are dealing with a homosexual. And then we discover that a shocking number of other states have laws like this that were doing pretty well in their own legislatures until bad press struck them down.

So yeah, not funny.

[baxaphobia]

Laughing isn't my reaction to this at all...an overwhelming feeling of nausea is more like it. Ugh!

[jem0000000]

*hugs* It sounds so silly, but the scary part is, I've known people who would do this.

[elledanger]

Stuff like this is so important, and dismissing it and trivialising it with laughter undermines what a real threat that kind of mentality is.

I totally feel you on not being able to laugh at it.

[eeyore_grrl]

Sometimes I laugh at the sheer ludicrousness of it all, like REALLY people!? ugh. *eyeroll*