The problem with living inside a bubble is you only hear similar voices rattling around your brain. Evidently, Fox News contributor Greg Gutfeld is living in a bubble. Evidently, he didn’t bother to read the New York Times/CBS News poll that shows the vast majority of Tea Party supporters are older, white men who are well-off and think Obama is spending too much time trying to help African Americans.
Because, “Did Racism Drive Gay Activist Protesters To Heckle Obama?” is just plain stupid, and misses the entire point of the GetEQUAL protest.
Gutfeld writes:
Now I, for one, think it’s awesome to see gay activists moving beyond the easy targets. Usually, they rag on Mormons, because they’ll take it, but ignore black churches because they won’t. So now, for once, they actually spoke truth to power.
But I wonder, couldn’t this heckling be a precursor to violent extremism? And could this agitation toward our president, said to be based on policy, really be thinly veiled racism? I mean, the president did say he agreed with this gay group and yet they still heckled.
Look, I have no idea how gays in the military might affect battle. But in the end, war is about winning. I want to win. If gays said, “We want a stronger, deadlier military and we want to be part of that” then I would be behind them 100 percent.
Perhaps someone should explain to Gutfeld that allowing gay men and lesbians to serve their county openly would actually strengthen our armed forces. Perhaps something about kicking out dozens of LGBTQ Arabic translators when we need them the most isn’t a good idea. Especially since “on September 10th, 2001, the U.S. government intercepted a cable that said, ‘Tomorrow is zero-hour.’ It wasn’t translated until the 12th because we didn’t have enough Arabic linguists.â€
I won’t weigh in here on whether or not the GetEQUAL protest on Monday was appropriate or effective. What I will say is it had nothing to do with racism.
Yes, I know Gutfeld is just trying to be funny. But someone should remind Gutfeld that neither racism nor inequality are funny. In fact, they’re issues of life and death.
So, Greg, now are you “behind them 100 percent?”
Go ahead, Greg, make a joke about that.