Bigots in the hood
Bigots came to our neighborhood the other day while we were out walking with the baby. They were in town as part of a general protest against Jews, but according to local news reports these bigots were also the proud owners of the www . godhatesfags . com (sorry god hates fagers, you’ll get no such link from us). They have enough hate for both gays and Jews, but that’s not all. They believe that 9-11 was God’s revenge on America for its sins, and that American soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan are immoral for defending an immoral nation. They were sued by the father of a fallen soldier for protesting his son’s funeral. They seemed to express an odd wrap around convergence of Timothy McVeigh style terrorists with Islamic terrorist interests. McVeigh was not religious, so perhaps the god hates fagers share more with the Islamic terrorists.
The bigots seemed so incongruous with the rest of Brooklyn. NYC has its racial tensions which are mixed with issues of class, history, etc. but this seemed so arbitrary. My first thought was to try and take a tourist photo with the actual specimens — true middle American loons. The Smoked Salmon prevent this as it was not the usual form of protest. The Smoked Salmon, who is a Jew but has no sense that in some places Jews are in fact a minority, was totally confused. What was their purpose, she asked? Did they expect Jews to just up and convert because of the bigots’ hateful message? That couldn’t have been it. Why would a group of Christian try to convert anybody without Santa and the Easter Bunny? It would be like the re-deem team without Kobe and Lebron. I suppose they just wanted to show off to the other bigots, that they were the most ridiculous bigots around. Some shit is just f-ed in the ‘a.
I did snap a picture of them from a safe distance.
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Name September 30th, 2009, 12:40 pm
Aren't those folks pretty much just one family from Kansas?
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