I Got Something To Say….

This seems like a nice item for cross-posting, because I want to reach as many of my “friends” with this message as I can.

One thing is for certain-if I offend you, your level of offense is going to go way up in the months ahead. Allow me to decline to apologize for that in advance.

I was recently “dressed down” by a commenter at another blog I frequent, Hanlon’s Razor. The commenter objected to my use of the terms “Republiklan” and “Klanservative,” and had this to say about it.

That whole thing you just said? Really not helping. It’s a lot easier (and actually possible) to open up a dialogue when you don’t pull cutesey crap like “Klanservatives” and “Republiklans.” No matter how much you might disagree with someone, disagree with their actions eloquently, not with some ridiculous, warped label that renders them dehumanized.

First of all, I don’t consider my terms to be “cutesey.” There is nothing cute about the term “Klanservative,” which I coined while groping for some way to identify the “family values” types who so gleefully engaged in the persecution of gay American citizens. “Klanservative” is a term I came up with after seeing the term “Republiklan” on a message board one day, and it’s a perfect one-word descriptor of the “values” of the “values” set. Don’t take my word for it though; poke around the Internets just a little bit, and you’ll uncover all the proof you need to satisfy you.

Four years ago, Perkins addressed the Louisiana chapter of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), America’s premier white supremacist organization, the successor to the White Citizens Councils, which battled integration in the South. In 1996 Perkins paid former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke $82,500 for his mailing list. At the time, Perkins was the campaign manager for a right-wing Republican candidate for the US Senate in Louisiana. The Federal Election Commission fined the campaign Perkins ran $3,000 for attempting to hide the money paid to Duke.

The “values” organizations aren’t kidding when they talk about wanting to take America back. They DO want to take us back-to segregated lunch counters, schools, and hospitals. Back to poll taxes and literacy tests that had questions like “How many suds are there in a bar of soap?” Back to a time when a mixed-race couple would be as proscribed as they’ve sought to make a gay couple.Why in the HELL would I even want to try to “open a dialogue” with such people? Klanservative is a neat, one-word description that fits them like an old shoe. I am not going to stop using it any sooner than I’d stop using my other coined words, like “Jesusistanis” or “Chimpletons.” My aim is not to try to reach out to such people; my aim is to OFFEND them. I will offend them with the TRUTH the same way that the wingtard pundits have offended ME with all of their false slanders about liberals and liberalism. I do not like to kill babies, I am not busy trying to recruit grade-school kids into homosexuality, and I do not have portraits of Chairman Mao in my bedroom. Perhaps more importantly, unlike the wingtards, many liberals have done things like served in the Armed Forces, where (amazingly enough) we learned to work together with and respect many different races and cultures. By way of contrast/comparison, the chickenhawk Chimpletons piss themselves just thinking that a minority might show up in one of their neighborhoods. You see what I’m saying? They LIE constantly about the left in America, which I’m supposed to ignore. I tell the TRUTH about them, and I’m being “cutesey” and using a “ridiculous, warped” label on them.

My good friend Heidi calls herself the Virus Head because, as she says, language is a virus that is constantly mutating. I, like many of you, have had to sit back for the last quarter-century and watch the wingtards invent slander after false slander to describe the liberal left in this country. These people will scream about how unpatriotic you are for even daring to question the policies of the Cowardly Commander in Chimp, and then turn around and sling as many vile epithets as they’ve been fed (they do not make any of them up, because they can’t think anything up themselves.) And THEN, they want to take offense to anything and everything you might have to say in rebuttal, no matter how true it is!

There is one other truth that I’ve noticed is unfailing. The people who claim to be offended by my terminology are usually described by it. I’m onto that trick, and it’ll never work on me. I’ll continue to describe them in terms as short and sweet as I can make them, and I’ll also happily adopt terms that other people use to describe them, so long as the term is accurate. True Conservatives and people of faith know exactly who I’m aiming at, and they pay it little or no attention. So if I’ve said something that offends you, the chances are pretty good that you deserved to be offended. When the right wing stops resembling my remarks, my remarks will go away. Unlike them, I’m not going to lie to make them look any worse than they actually are.