A day filled with surprises

[wood_artist]

Read more if you wish, but be prepared for strange happenings down at the Circle K. Allow me to suggest there is something herein you really don't want to miss. It's the last thing in the post.

Comments

[wood_artist]

Thanks for joining in. Needless to say, this wasn't the response I anticipated, and it seems to me that he's only digging himself deeper and deeper into a hole of narrowmindedness and bigotry.

V

[shweta_narayan]

That's what I'm thinking too, increasingly -- that "message" here is a weasel word for "challenges Jake's worldview".

Thanks for the post, wood_artist!
And, hi :) Here directly via rm and indirectly via the OA.

[b_writes]

That's pretty amazing. And sad. Thanks for passing it on.

(Also here from the Alliance!)

[sandykidd]

Oh my.

He did say much of this in another email to Bart, but he put it a little nastier to you.

I suppose if he's gong to keep feeding us lines like these, I may as well use them for what they're worth. Teaching! His brother paid a visit to the Outer Alliance website and left some real gems behind as well.

You know what I love best about all this? They still haven't checked their condescention. As if they are in the teaching position here instead of the ones getting schooled. It makes me wonder what sort of lesson it will take to get them to actually learn...

What a delightful challenge.

[sandykidd]

Whoops, I misspoke. Jake's brother actually posted his issues to the blog of an individual OA member, not the community's site itself.

[wood_artist]

Although I haven't actually written the email yet, the general idea is this...

Thomas Jefferson wrote, in the Declaration of Independence, that...

We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal...

Notice he didn't say "most all men are created equal" or "for the most part men are created equal" or even "all the men who agree with me are created equal." Equal rights, while often debated in the political arena, are not political until someone seeks to press their personal beliefs upon others. The words Equal Rights require no interpretation beyond a simple understand of the two words.

Those who attempt to parse those words should be up front about what they are truly saying, namely that they don't want equal rights for those that don't see the world exactly the same way they do. While that might seem a righteous position, consider if that same perspective were held by "those people whom you wish to exclude" and they were in power. Would you find their curtailment of your rights acceptable?

C

[illuminated_sin]

I'd bet he agrees that all men are CREATED equal, but the ones who go off the "righteous path," as he sees it, lose all claim to equal rights because then their actions prove they are no longer worthy. I've had so many arguments like this with people before. He's not going to change his mind, regardless. Using that sort of logic, he'll never think there's anything to change about his stance, because it is not he who has strayed or erred, it's everyone else. :-/

[kissed_by_fate]

I suppose this is what happens when people are given free will to think and believe as they wish, and actually have the balls to say it out loud.

I don't support his thoughts, but I don't think that life will cease to exist because he doesn't want an ad for Crossed Genres on his site, for whatever reasons he espouses.

In the end, I think that it will garner more exposure for Crossed Genres than just the ad itself would have done, so Kay and Bart will have come out ahead, as well as been able to exercise their sense of moral outrage. It's a win-win for them, and not for Jake, though he'll get mileage out of it too.

People are funny, yanno? Both in the weird and ha-ha ways.

BTW, excellent credit, man. You're my hero.

[wood_artist]

True. I have no problem allowing him his opinion. To me, the more he says, the more he discredits his perspective.

C

[cassandra63]

To use a Yorkshire expression, 'there's nowt as queer as folk'. Which means queer as in strange.

Live and let live I say, the silly arse!

[pixietulip]

I have to laugh - my mum is from Yorkshire and from that saying she assumed that the television show 'Queer as Folk' must be about Yorkshire. We found out it wasn't!

Nice job on the purple truck poohbah!