Are you guys ready for another one of my ranty/preachy posts? Yep, this is going to be one of those… in a minute. I need to flip out a little bit first though. Yesterday I got 3.8k unique visitors. I know for other sites this is no big deal but, that is freaking huge for me. I know I am a big freaking dork for being excited about it, but I am. I am going to enjoy my one freakishly good day and carry on being a complete frelling noob.
So one of my friends shared a story from the Huffington Post about a flash mob targeting Michele Bachmann’s speech at the California Republican Convention. First video, then rant.
The Courage Campaign is an organization of progressives in California (read dirty granola eating hippies) that work together to forward liberal causes. I didn’t read much about them, but if this flash mob is any indicator, The Courage Campaign has to be pretty freaking epic.
Later in the Huffington Post article it mentions the protest move of “glittering” where gay rights protestors throw glitter on to conservative, anti-human rights, anti-common sense, anti-mind your own damn business because that shit doesn’t hurt you politicians. I laughed so hard when I read that and my mind started to buzz.
We all know I am annoyed by the rampant lack of civility in our modern political discourse. (What I mean to say is that people are asshats and behave in a way that should shame their kindergarten teacher.) In this time when name calling, violence, wild propaganda, and inflammatory hate speech is considered an acceptable way to express viewpoints, I am touched to watch a group of people seek basic equality by using non-violent and non-asshat forms of protest. It makes the people who scream about hating fags or resort to violence look like neanderthals.
These protests encompass all that is great about America. At the core, this is what we like to think America is all about. It is people who feel something needs to change exercising their rights and gathering in a non-violent protest. I don’t know if we have completely lost our ability to appreciate the beauty of people standing up for what they believe without violence or hate, but I honestly hope not.
The USA wants to believe that we are about freedoms, equality, and personal expression. We want to believe this with everything we are, but we have a hard time sticking to it when we don’t agree with what the other person is saying. We only want to give rights and freedoms to people who are like us. If someone has a different race, religion, or sexual orientation, we feel it is okay to limit those rights. Truth is, no matter how we feel about how someone chooses to live their lives, or how they choose to worship, or any other personal choice they might make, if it doesn’t hurt anyone else, then we have no right to limit their rights.
If you don’t like their choices, get a blog and bitch about it there. It is what the rest of us do.
3 comments
Best. Flash mob. Ever.
That was GREAT!!
i’m going to buy glitter. in bulk. RIGHT NOW!