Judge not least ye be...mocked for decades to come or Peeking in the potty

So a very long, sometimes amusing but more often then not annoying comment chain started by my busy body brother, Ben Baker had commentary on the discriminatory laws being passed by states like North Carolina and Mississippi (Em Eye Crooked Letter Crooked Letter Eye...What you never heard that spelling song before?) that would ban Transgender and Transsexual individuals from using the bathroom of the sex they identify with inspired me to write this little rant. I thought it might be gas at first but after a little while I realized it wasn't. So here we go!

Two of the individuals commenting on the chain showed exactly what the bigoted propaganda being put out by the Conservative Right sounds like. Things like “OMG, perverts in woman's clothes are gunna rape my little gurl” and “Geezus, my little becky might accidentally see a man's wiener” or words to that effect were bandied about. They are convinced that passing brand spanking new laws will stop all of the pervs out there from slapping on woman's clothes and going into spy on Little Becky while she is tinkling. Never mind that it is already against the law to spy on people in the bathroom and people still do it. These brand new laws will definitely stop them all.

(As an aside here, I find it highlarious that all of the people making new laws to stop criminals because the old ones don't are pretty much the same ones who are against new gun control laws because “criminals don't obey the law.” Which is it folks, explain the disconnect to me please.)

Now believe it or not, this little rant isn't exactly about the new bigoted laws that are costing states billions of dollars because people are refusing to do business with bigots. Nope, that's just a kind of a side issue of what I am speechifying about today. See, history is full of moments when what people consider to be the norm is confronted with newer and more civilized ideas. When this happens, the backwards people scream bloody murder and struggle with all of their might to defend what is “good, decent and proper” in the world from “perverts and criminals.” They quote the Bible, they quote “science” and they quote “experts” to show how right they are and how wrong the freaks are.

Pick any time of upheaval in the US ranging from Abolition to Women voting to Equal rights to Same Sex Marriage and you will see what I am speaking of. The “that is the way things have always been” crowd have fought (often times violently and murderously) to keep things they way they were because that is what they were comfortable with and that was what they believed is right. They mocked and vilified the people trying to move forward and predicted gloom and doom for the world if people actually listened to them.

Well now, LGBT people are the new “OMG that ain't right!” crowd and the same tactics and same rhetoric is streaming out of the...mouths of Conservatives. Their hate speech and lies is virtually identical to the same crap spewed when Minorities were given equal rights. It is IDENTICAL to the bull spewed when Same Sex Marriage was made the law of the land. I mean, you'd swear that these bigots simply did an interwebz search for “Hate Rhetoric of the past” and copied and pasted it pretty much word for word. Well except of course substituting Transgender for Negro so I guess they did some editing.

In the end, I have to say I pity these fearful bigots the same way bigots in the past should be pitied. You can scream and fight and fuss all you want. You can rail against “perversion” and pass as many laws as you want, but it won't do any good in the long run. Bigotry always loses out. Sure it might take time, but it always happens. Always. It might be next year or a decade from now, but you will lose and freedom will win. Change is inevitable and unstoppable (wait is that redundant?) so suck it up buttercup.

Bigots of today should be very careful or one day 20 years from now, people will be reading about you on the SuperWebz ™ and laughing at just how backwards and stupid your ideas were the same way right minded people today look back at Anti-Equal Rights bigots of the 50s and 60s. If you don't learn from the mistakes of the past, you are destined to be nothing but a humorous footnote in history.

End of Rant