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07-01-2013 07:37 AM |
Just curious why this is even newsworthy? I'm pretty sure I'm way worse than Taylor in Westboro insanity given that oh gosh I'm a gay Jew. Who don't they hate? They actually planned a protest at my former university's Hillel ( the biggest Jewish student/young adult group that I think is basically international). Don't think they even showed up and why bother? Ironically my former university is only the third largest in the state of Michigan after the obviously much more widely known University of MI and Michigan State U and both of those schools have a larger Jewish student population and much larger Hillels. Although the school they planned to protest at is in Detroit where the vast bulk of MI's Jews live. But anyway, point is they pull this crap anywhere and everywhere. They are most widely known for basically wishing all gays would be rounded up and killed but they're also anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic, anti-military (they somehow connect the military with gays?! And the most disgusting thing they do is protest at soliders funerals!!!), anti-famous people (they protested at Elizabeth Edwards' funeral. Her children were around 10 or so when she passed. And they were protesting because her young children were conceived through in vitri fertilization. Actually I guess that's another reason they'd hate me because so was I. I cried in this case because they were also basically saying these innocent kids were more or less the devil incarnate. At their mother's funeral! Ugh!) Basically they are VERY small (note they said expected 15 people to show IN THEIR OWN HOMETOWN. Its often less than that when they travel. And they make their young children hold gastly signs up...) group of people who hate everyone who is not like them. Somehow they are able to grab way more media attention than they deserve. Far more people regularly show at their protests to protest them! At gay pride events for example, while the Westboro nutjobs hold up their "G-d hates fags" signs, so many more people both gay and straight can be found holding up counter signs that say things like "G-d loves everyone". Groups of people have built walls blocking them and the families of fallen soliders from seeing one another at funerals. The counter protesters never really make the media which is too bad.
A number of people, largely young adults, have been leaving the Westboro cult and that has also made the news. The family members of the leader Fred Phelos himself have been leaving. One even wrote a book. And as I recall she even said to not give them attention because that's what they want. I know gay groups used to post about Westboro all the time but so many have taken the stance that they're not worth giving attention to at all. I'm really starting to agree. I mean heck, June was gay pride month yet we hardly heard a thing about Westboro so it seems they were looking for an even bigger way to grab attention. The Taylor Swift protest is a great way for them to do so. I'm sure they'll fire up a bunch of young girls in particular and get lots of attention just as they wish for. But I don't think there's anything really worth discussing. They're a long standing and very small hate group who is somehow still gaining media attention. I really don't know why. I don't think we should be remotely surprised. And clearly its all about attention be ause after all, why aren't they protesting Fleetwood Mac concerts? I'm sure every Mac member has done circles around Swift in "fornication" not to mention married Mac members cheating, drugs and alcohol abuse, etc. Yet they're not protesting Fleetwood Mac because it wouldn't get them as much attention.
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