Robert P. George, Super Genius, shares a complaint with K-Lo…
So people are calling you “intolerant” and an “anti-civil-rights bigot”? Well, for those who have absorbed the premises of sexual liberation and embraced its dogmas so fanatically that they can’t fathom the possibility that any reasonable person of goodwill could dissent from them, that’s what people like you and me seem to be. Like overly impassioned believers at all times and in all places, these folks suppose that anyone who doubts the tenets of their faith must have malign motives. Dissenters from what they regard as an unquestionable orthodoxy must be “haters” (the modern word for “heretics”). It’s ironic — and amusing — that these folks regard themselves as urbane, sophisticated people — critical thinkers — who are much smarter and better informed (not to mention more “tolerant” and “open-minded”) than their opponents. In truth, they rarely have the foggiest notion of what the arguments are in support of the view they reject or what the intellectual challenges are for the view they hold. They already know the truth, and that’s that! So what need is there for reflection, study, deliberation, and debate? Why argue with “intolerant, anti-civil-rights bigots”? To the barricades!
Of course, there is an astonishing degree of ignorance on display in all this…
You don’t say. Some of the votes for same-sex marriage last week came from republicans who have gay children or family members. You’re calling them ignorant? Here’s your problem genius: you are Groucho Marx saying to everyone who knows a gay person “Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?”
Hateful? Bigoted? Intolerant? Oh for sure. Malign motives? Without a doubt. But there’s another more fitting word that describes your kind, and I’ll let the better man of knowledge say it…
“In the knowledge of man as in that of nature, the habit of truth to experienced fact will not let our concepts alone. This is what destroyed the empires of Himmler and of Warren Hastings. When Hastings stood his trial, William Wilberforce was rousing England to put an end to the trade in slaves. He had at bottom only one ground: that dark men are men. A century and more of scientific habit by then had made his fellows find that true, and find Hastings not so much a tyrant as a cheat.”
-Jacob Bronowski, Science and Human Values
Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes? Reflect, study and deliberate on this genius: Some of the votes for same-sex marriage last week came from republicans who have gay children or family members and you’re calling them ignorant.
…these folks regard themselves as urbane, sophisticated people — critical thinkers — who are much smarter and better informed (not to mention more “tolerant” and “open-minded”) than their opponents—–WE ARE!
Oh I’m so glad you read all the way through that Robert George/Most Holy Sister K-Lo wankfest, as I couldn’t bring myself to do anything but hit “close tab.”
After reading through Rob Tisani’s excellent point-by-point tear-down of one of George’s faux-intellectual papers opposing same-sex marriage, I’m not astonished that his mask of cool intellectualism is beginning to crack. His facade is pretty much all the depth there he has. Like Gertrude Stein’s Oakland, “there is no there there.”
Robert George certainly does hate LGBT people. He is a bigot. From NOM, to the Family Research Council, to the Manhattan Declaration, his grubby finger prints are on almost all anti-gay activity in America.
Robert George is a phony.
Evan: It’s not something I want to do on a regular basis I can tell you that.
Something else that was really fragrant in it was Robert (Super Genius) George spitting on Governor Cuomo’s Catholicism…
It goes downhill from there. Then later he bellyaches about how same sex marriage is a threat to religious liberty. So…let’s be clear here: the only threat to religious liberty is same sex marriage not constitutional amendments taking the right of marriage away from gay people because only homophobic bigots have a religion, everyone else merely has a “sexual-liberationist ideology”.
Whenever this man talks about faith and morality just laugh in his face.
…And btw… The other primitive barbarian in the cartoon is George. I didn’t label them because I was hoping I’d done the job well enough people could recognize them and I am gratified most folks here got that the short one was Maggie. One of the heartfelt pleasures of political cartooning is you get to draw them the way they seem to you.
Last year I watched/listened to a conversation between Robert George and Robert Wright (http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2010/08/wright-vs-george/184123/). I came away thinking that George has a very large vocabulary, and knows stuff – lots and lots of stuff. If each piece of stuff equals a dot, George connects those dots in a way that allows him to arrive at the conclusions he wants. It’s what b******t looks like when produced by an “intellectual heavyweight.”
So, let’s see if I have this right? If I vote to take away the civil rights of other Americans, I’m a good person and reasonable, tolerant and loving? But if I complain that we don’t do this sort of thing in America, I’m an elite seething with intolerance toward others? What’s wrong with this picture? It’s astounding that anti-gay activists revile millions of pro-equality Americans while whining about people finding them “intolerant.”
Good grief, the Super Genius is looking in a mirror!! He is engaging in the usual reverse-position projection that homophobic religious nuts practice…boo-hoo, we are the truly oppressed people, not the people we are trying to oppress. Boohoohooooooo
Princeton Professor Robert George is on the Board of Directors of the Family Research Council, an SPLC-designated anti-gay hate group. The FRC lobbied American law-makers AGAINST a proposed condemnation of the “Kill all Gays” bill in Uganda.