Stand in Solidarity With Ellen Lewin; Say It With Me Now: FUCK YOU, REPUBLICANS
Civility just ain't gonna cut it. @PZ Myers:
Ellen Lewin is a professor in the anthropology department at the University of Iowa. Like all of us, she is constantly dunned with email announcing this, that, and the other thing at our universities, and sometimes we get email that makes our blood boil. In this case, she got mail from the College Republicans, announcing a "coming out" party (like Republicans in the midwest are a closeted and oppressed minority…) that featured some hagiographic movie about George W. Bush (that ignorant ass), an "animal rights barbecue" and other such joyful shenanigans to celebrate the party of morons and thugs and self-destructive ideologues.All together now: FUCK YOU, REPUBLICANS
Ellen Lewin had enough. Ellen Lewin got angry. Ellen Lewin fired off a one-sentence reply.
FUCK YOU, REPUBLICANS.
I think I'm in love with Ellen Lewin.
She later apologized for losing her temper — and I can sympathize with that, too — but I hope she never backs down in her righteous contemptuous opinion of the Republican party. I share it. I think her response was relatively mild.
Now, of course, the right-wingers are outraged. How dare she disagree loudly with an entire party of mouth-breathing, sanctimonious idiots? Read the Free Republic for examples of their response; the first comment sarcastically complains that "Liberals are SO CLASSY!!", and then the rest, with no sense of irony, posts a picture of her and proceeds to call her a "pervert", a "lesbian", a "cow", a "demonic lesbian demon", a "bitter, old, ugly, lesbian with a hairy lip", and suggests that she has sex with dogs.
And more! Those delicate little flowers, the College Republicans, are so hurt by her unkind words that they are filing an official complaint.
SNIP
It wasn't civil or respectful (although turning a brief outburst into a case of harassment and a "string of emails" is a bit much). But you know what? I approve of incivility and disrespect towards organizations that deserve it, and the Republican party is currently the party of know-nothings, hypocrites, liars, and greed — it's the stagnant, festering slime towards which all the worst elements of society now gravitate. The problem isn't college professors snarling at them, it's that the party itself encourages short-sightedness, idiocy, and hatefulness. So, until the grown-ups wake up and clean out the bigotry and ignorance from their own house, I think it's only fair for us to air our vigorous disgust with them.
I stand in solidarity with Ellen Lewin.
FUCK YOU, REPUBLICANS.
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2 comments:
Aye.
It reminds me of a recent National Geographic magazine issue celebrating the anniversary of Darwin's Theory of (a non determinist principle for anyone who's ever actually read it) Natural Selection. Its cover read: WAS DARWIN WRONG? story page 82 or something... when you thumb through to get to page 82, you were greeted by a two page spread that read "NO. NO, HE WAS NOT."
The usual nonsense from fundamentalists ensued. Scientists have been murdered, imprisoned by servile religious conservatives throughout history, but a magazine owes them an apology?
This isn't that much different a case. It sucks that Ellen Lewin felt she had to apologize for saying openly to them, what they were expressing in action and deed to her and the human race. Let them draw their pictures, call her a "lesbian" and whatever other things they think are insults.
Lewin told them to go fuck themselves, and for that I thank her. Most of them will outgrow this nonsense when they enter this great post recession jobless recovery their current heroes like George W. Bush brought about. All they can do then is lie about reality to themselves. Nothing more, nothing less.
-SJ
Here’s my interview with Tim Hagle, the University of Iowa College Republicans faculty advisor, about Lewin’s “F— You, Republicans!” email response to the group’s invite for people to participate in “Conservative Coming Out Week.”
http://www.patv.tv/blog/2011/04/27/talking-with-yale-cohn-discussing-professor-ellen-lewins-f-you-email-response-to-the-university-of-iowa-college-republicans/
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