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Hunter Thompson dead
Hunter Thompson took the Hemingway option earlier today.
Thompson.....**** poor writer. No great loss there. |
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"Laws against homosexuality should remain on the books to be used when
necessary to send a clear message that those who flagrantly violate society's regulation of sexual behavior cannot be permitted to remain as acceptable, equal citizens with that society." -Orson Scott Card, 1990 Radical-right homophobe, religious crackpot, & sci-fi writer Orson Scott Card is on the rampage again, egged on by President Bush's call for a Constitutional Amendment to insure that gays in America never now or in the future gain equal rights under law. Here's Scott's lengthily considered argument on how queers will be the end of Civilization -- no exaggeration, he really thinks Civilization will end if queers ain't stopped. Wow do I feel powerful!: http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2004-02-15-1.html Scott shows a lack of understanding of a representative democracy & advocates a type of direct government that would guarantee the masses never need to grant equal rights to any kind of minority ever again. Of course, what Scott forgets is that once his Utopia is in place, & Civil Rights properly & popularly voted out of existence, the Mormons will be next in line to be voted into that particuolar purgatory & his only allies on Earth will turn out to be the ******s & the faggots & the fat old dykes (young nubile lesbians will still have rights of course, so long as the ruling majority is permitted to watch). He also takes a few broad pot-shots at the educated. It's his belief that college profesesor types & their liberal students never fight for their country. The depth of the man's ignorance knows few limitations. For a man whose faith is one that had to have its own polygamous marriage standards changed before Utah was permitted to become a state, he raves a great deal about the evil "elite" of America who don't sufficiently uphold his church's current view of who is a suitable parent, who is suitable in the military, & who should be banned from having homes, jobs, or marriages. He claims he's ready to take his "culture" away from here & abandon America altogether if queers ever have marriage rights. Maybe he should write a follow-up on L-5 colonies, because his deploring American en total isn't going to score him an earthly colony even further west than Joseph Smith found for Scott's "culture" when they tried that gambit before. And anyway, how would Scott keep a bunch of queers from forming THEIR utopian L5 colony right next door to the Mormon L-fivers? Oh right, MILITARY excellence, those sissy queers will never fight back when Scott's jihad is brought to outer space. Because of the hot water Scott got himself into in the past even with his peers at SFFWA, he now threatens to sue anyone who even quotes from his Mormon hate literature, which he says is intended for a strict Mormon audience & all us goyim should not be privy to any of it. In most regards Orson Scott Card is profoundly bigoted; he's on written record previously with his belief that queers should not be permitted jobs or homes; and his Ender saga of race extermination never questions the apropriateness of the hero permanently eradicating a Jew-like race then becoming the "historian" of the exterminated race (just as the nazis planned to preserve Prague as a romantic museum to Jewry once they'd gotten rid of us & could rewrite who we were). Scott denies that's what he intended, he even denies there is any such thing as a subtext for fiction; but the parallel is so obvious that if he honestly didn't write it on purpose, that only shows how deeply ingrained his religiously-inspired bigotry is -- just his unconsidered, never-soulsearched worldview that expresses itself in the most horrific nazi-like plotlines as completely upbeat & good. Here's a post I put on-line about six years ago, during a period when Act Up & Queer Nation were still monitoring Scott's first decade of homophobic antics, causing him to whine like a sissy that the homos were persecuting him & trying to starve his children. ------- REPOST: ------- OSC remains so far as I know the only SFWA member ever to have been officially sanctioned by SFWA, due to his using his position in the Mormon Church to advocate that homosexuals be denied jobs & housing as punishment for their infamy. The subsequent impact of gay activists on his career must have been felt, as he later claimed homosexuals were destroying his ability to make a living. It's been Scott's habit to attack queers viciously then withdraw to a corner & play the victim. Somehow he seems to have survived his unrepentence. His infamously homophobic essay for a Mormon publication is available on-line: http://www.nauvoo.com/library/card-hypocrites.html Lacking, though, are the fascinating follow-ups in later issues of the same Mormon journal with even some Latter Day Saints horrified that such an important leader of their church could be so inappropriately over-the-top & rabid. An expanded version of his relentless hate-spewing can be found in his book A STORYTELLER IN ZION. I am unaware of any apology or retraction ever issued by Scott to the gay community, though he has tried to justify his position & even claims to be victimized by evil people who do not support his hate-spews & who would ask others not to support them either. He did later tell huge lies claiming his opinions applied only to homosexual mormons but unfortunately his own writings reveal that to be a running-scared lie, & not very helpful to mormon homosexuals even if in retrospect he had decided to cast only Mormon homosexuals into the streets to die. I dunno if Scott is aware that the ****ed-anything-that-moved Joseph Smith not only screwed all the Mormon wives he could lay hands on, but also a good many Mormon sons -- there are multiple documents about Smith's buggering hobby. He was publically accused of homosexual conduct even before he became a religious leader & wrote his biblical parody, The Book of Mormon. His bed-relationship with Joseph Knight appears to have been one of the fickle Smith's more longer-lasting relationships. Perhaps bisexuality is okay though exclusive homosexuality sucks in Scott's worldview, but I would suspect rather that it is denial that Scott finds okay & he just pretends Smith shared OSC's homophobia. Smith's namesake Joseph Fielding Smith, a Mormon Patriarch, was also homosexual, stripped of church authority because of it -- but so far as the original good ol' Joe's queerness, LDS tries merely to keep it under the rug. There is even evidence preserved of Brigham Young's homosexual encounters, & John Bennett likewise shared Joseph Smith's bisexual proclivities. D. Michael Quinn's SAME-SEX DYNAMICS AMONG 19th-CENTURY AMERICANS: A MORMON EXAMPLE was most bedeviling to the church leaders, as the inner circle of Mormon power certainly cannot deny to each other in private the facts of Smith's buggery -- they are religiously devoted to their own historical documents & are thus stuck with those documents they might otherwise like to have destroyed -- but they do excommunicate those mormon scholars, like Quinn, who fail to leave these things out of their publically accessible histories. While anti-Mormon propogandists have used these historical realities to defame Mormonism, to gay Mormons per se it is evidence that the founders of their faith would not have applauded today's LDS homophobia, that even Joseph Smith would have told Scott to calm down, get a clue, & bend over. Most of us would not like to think we are sending funds to organizations or individuals who can with such misplaced self-righteous vigor advocate a state of joblessness & homelessness for any group or class of people, whether the group targeted to be rendered homeless was black or homosexual or even Mormon. So it's a good idea to ONLY purchase Card in used bookstores if at all, as that way no percentage of your money will be forwarded to the author in the form of royalties. Remainders also do not pay royalties. Better still is to just put him on the very bottom of the list of authors to read, where he'll never be gotten round to. Put Greg Bear and Michael Bishop on the top of the choices. -paghat the ratgirl -- Get your Paghat the Ratgirl T-Shirt he http://www.paghat.com/giftshop.html "History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government." -Thomas Jefferson |
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"John A. Stovall" wrote
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:21:52 -0800, "Dave Pritchard" wrote: Hunter Thompson took the Hemingway option earlier today. Thompson.....**** poor writer. No great loss there. And what have you written with the impact of _Fear and Loathing_? I didn't care for "Fear & Loathing" (either one) but his "Hell's Angels" book was excellent and "Great Shark Hunt" was a good read too. -- Bob Finnan http://bobfinnan.com |
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Dave Pritchard wrote:
Hunter Thompson took the Hemingway option earlier today. Thompson.....**** poor writer. No great loss there. And how considerate of you to say so at this point in time. -- '...custom bike specialists with a taste for the flesh of young dogs, flashy headbands and tender blondes with lobotomy eyes...' - Hunter Thompson's Hell's Angels. |
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