Phaedrus wrote:Why is it you only leap to the defense of white people? Hustler launched a horrible smear on gays and you just let it pass. Your constant choice of when to step in shows your own discriminating tastes.
Deflection???
Here's the deal, I had to go back and
read his post. The one just before where you mentioned smearing gays. I read it twice because I couldn't understand what I was missing. So I went back a bit further and saw a longer post that started with something like "This isn't mine but I got it from...."
Can I be honest? Notice that I bolded the word READ earlier. I didn't write RE-READ. With out wanting to hurt Hustler's feelings, I kind of.... sort of..... in a round about way..... skip over many of his posts. Which is exactly what I did with that one when it was just a copy and paste job.
Side note: sorry Hustler. I don't mean to Hassle the Hustler. That's a little play off of the Hasslehoff joke.
So then I go back and re-read your post and I think that it only be fair that I read what he did say. So I read it and I guess you are talking about him smearing gay people because of the serial killer comments? If that's it, then I don't get it. I'm not coming to his defense by any means but it seems that he listed statistics. (I don't know the value of the author of these stats) but none the less he seems to have placed some facts that someone else did about the correlation of serial killers that are homosexual vs serial killers that are heterosexual.
Is it the paragraph before it about Gaetan Dugas and the bath house orgies and stuff? Are you saying that he is saying that all gay men and women just have a "If it feels good, do it" attitude? Again, I am not coming to his defense, but that section seems to be talking about bath houses from a time ago. I've never been to a bath house but I thought it was common knowledge of what they became and what was happening in them. If that's what you think he is saying then I don't agree with it. I think there are plenty of heterosexuals that have a "If it feels good, do it" attitude and there are plenty of heterosexuals that enjoy multiple partners sexually. Maybe you can tell me what he was smearing across the gay community?
Is Hustler's smearing of gay people similar to your smearing of caucasian people? The way you sort of blanketed that all white juries surely can't come to a justified conclusion? Now you may call up some cases from history from a time ago. But it is 2012 and to say that Hate Crime Laws are necessary because of the fairness of jury decisions because they are all caucasian is disturbing.
Also, I wasn't really defending white people; as you like to refer to them. I was almost siding with you that if you think there is something wrong with filling a jury with 12 white people then why not be sure to enrich the jury with a multi cultural spread? If that were done then surely the fix couldn't be in right?