Two things:

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

1) I have to admit that I spent some time thinking about the post we had a few days ago about prejudice being used for a good end.

A real-world example that we might all want to think about is provided in the movie Outrage! where republican lawmakers who make anti-gay laws are outted by the gay community to the rest of the world--this uses prejudice to get those republicans out of office, because the republicans gay-hating voters will now gay-hate the republican.

I'm not saying this is good or bad. Just a real-world example.
I retract some of my harsher language on that front.

2) Who the HELL would run as Ron Paul's VP if he actually gets the nomination?
Can you imagine which whackjob would WANT to run with Ron Paul? Who's crazy enough? Any guesses? What's the funniest ticket you could realistically imagine?

Comments

[kylinrouge.livejournal.com]

1) Well, they could also be outed for being huge hypocrites, the gay-hating isn't the only reason. I contend that you can remove their influence from their supporters even without the gay-hating.

2) Mike Gravel. He supported Fair Tax with Ron Paul. So yes, he's crazy enough.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

had to wiki Gravel. it says he wants single-payer healthcare in the US

uhh, don't think that'd go over so well with Mr.Paul....

[kylinrouge.livejournal.com]

Paul would say 'it's up to the states' and Gravel would be fine with that as a stepping stone.

[blue-mangos.livejournal.com]

Re 1) The only people who would care that they are hypocrites would be the ones who supported gay rights. The ones that don't probably don't care at all as long as the politicians invoked keep voting against the rights of gay people.

[kylinrouge.livejournal.com]

This is why we can't have nice things.