b/c somehow my Tumblr is sorta of this quasi-right wing rant blog lately?

At some point in my life I donated to the Human Rights Campaign and every moronic, histrionic, self-important, clueless e-mail I get from them like the one above makes me wish I never had. More than that though, it makes me want to send them an e-mail that explains why they’re a bunch of idiots. This connects to my little, ultimately stupid rant here (which was, “Get your shit right before you get all high and mighty”) and also what monique_r was saying here.

I just unsubscribed from the Human Rights Campaign’s mailing list.

Mainly, this is an issue of rhetoric. Thanks for explaining this guy’s “ties” to a group that “condoned the execution of gays.” I also love this idea that Target “won’t take any steps to repair the damage” they apparently caused when they donated money to a candidate that has ties to a group that wants—or wanted—to execute gay people.

Seriously. This is the problem with groups like Human Rights Campaign (a name as loaded and ridiculous as “The Patriot Act”), they’re based on this single-issue assumption, that Target or Best Buy or whoever can’t possibly have supported this candidate for other reasons that to them mean more than Gay Rights (or to be real, let’s call it Civil Rights, because that’s what it is).

I also think it’s interesting that their tone and approach never shifts, no matter what’s swirling around them (like the overturning of Prop-8 for example). Now, I’m hardly asserting complacency or “be happy you get what you get” type approach, but it’s tangible confirmation about something that started digging in my crawl when I was fifteen or so and realized Liberals are just, if not more, retarded than their Right-wing “opponents” and that it’s all a big hustle.

Where would HRC be if they shifted their rhetoric? If they acknowledged the changes and didn’t tug at your heart-strings and stir-up all the knee-jerks? Marxism, Capitalism, Christianity, Liberal Humanism (or rather, what it’s become)—all this stuff’s a hustle. The whole point is it’s never-ending, that we’ll never make enough money or be equal enough or “good” enough or give enough people enough rights. I’m down with human rights, I’m down with supporting this shit, but not when the HRC’s involved.