Posted on 07/29/2015 10:42:50 AM PDT by EveningStar
President Obama has wrapped up his tour of Africa. It was notable, insofar as that word can be applied to the trip, for his somewhat condescending and neo-colonial lecture to his hosts on the need to ease up on the old homophobia.
Certainly, Africa is not terribly gay-friendly. But nor are other parts of the planet. In his ardent wooing of Iran, for example, he doesn't seem to have been perturbed in the least by his new best friends' executions of homosexuals, anymore than he is by the brutalization of gays elsewhere in the Muslim world. You might deduce in his highly selective criticism a certain cowardice. I'll bet the mullahs do.
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I thought the same thing - it was supposed to be bad 100 years ago to lecture the natives about the advantages of western democracy, science and Christianity.
But now its OK to lecture the natives about the advantages of western sodomy.
Gay imperialism!
Obama suffers hearing loss from living in an echo chamber.
If your views are different than his, don’t bother. His other ear isn’t any better.
Steyn doesn’t actually get to the point until the third paragraph. :)
The Guardian forced itself to consider the awkward fact that many young black males are "homophobic". This would be a disadvantage if one were hoping to make a career in the modern Tory party, but, on the other hand, if one's ambitions incline more to becoming a big-time gangsta rapper, it's a goldmine. Don't blame Jamaican men, though. After all, who made them homophobic? The "vilification of Jamaican homophobia", says Decca Aitkenhead, is just an attempt to distract from the real culprit: "It's a failure to recognize 400 years of Jamaican history, starting with the sodomy of male slaves by their white owners as a means of humiliation.
"Slavery laid the foundations of homophobia," writes Miss Aitkenhead. "For us to vilify Jamaicans for an attitude of which we were the architects is shameful. Jamaicans weren't the architects of their ideas about homosexuality; we were."
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As that round-up suggests, African leaders are likely to prove a tougher sell for Obama than your easily cowed jelly-spined Republican. Most of these chaps seem to take the view that your average G7 head of government is a bit light on his loafers. Also from the book:
Robert Mugabe subsequently warmed to his theme and called Tony Blair a "gay gangster" leading "the gay government of the gay United gay Kingdom". A Downing Street spokesgay denied the charge:
"The Prime Minister is not a gay gangster."
Has anyone checked with Mr Mugabe whether the gay government of the gay United gay States of gay America is also led by a gay gangster?
I noticed that the One didn’t lecture ROP countries about throwing gays off roofs.
My point was, that Obama thinks the rest of the world must believe as he does, because everyone he talks to believes what he does.
It’s his echo chamber. They only echo his thoughts.
As for Steyn, he addresses an interesting point. For some strange reason, some people in this nation want to blame the world’s problems on the U. S.
I have one question for these people. What nation is better?
I like how Steyn points out the beliefs on the African continent, and how they are similar to what Blacks in the Western Hemisphere believe.
The lady Steyn references must not have thought of that, during here extensive study of the subject. LOL
Thanks for the mention.
The weirdies course when I was going to College was underwater basket weaving.
I’m expecting to see Nazicrats call for banning the “s” word — sodomy.
I always love when liberal groups bump heads. Who’s the bigger victim and who gets more free stuff.
The gaystapo is way more powerful and better funded so they will win currying favor with liberals. The black pressure groups want money and they go away. The gaystapo will absolutely destroy anything that disagrees with them. They won’t quit even after a pay off.
It’s OK, they hug them and tell them they love them before they splat them on the ground. This is how evil co-opts Christian principles and twists them into a perverted version of “love the sinner hate the sin”. Sick evil bastards. There is nothing they can’t take and twist for their own evil perverted ends, but the left in the west will keep yammering on about the “homophobia” of Christians because we just want them to find repentence and salvation through Jesus Christ, so they won’t go to eternal damnation.
The sodomite agenda will take precedence because, if for no other reason, they are more useful as a tool against Christianity than blacks have proved to be. War on Christianity is where all the left’s evil converges, that’s plain to see because all the things which they project into Christians, they ignore others who actually do those things.
That quote is candidate for the funniest bs of the day. Thanks! Smile smile
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Thanks for the ping EveningStar.
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My take away from this essay is that 0’bamba is a coward,
kind of like Joffrey in Game of Thrones, and mean as a
whipped mule.
I never had any doubt.
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