This Is Freaking Awesome

I just realized something after clicking through an Insta-link to Classical Values.

Greenwald: All of the hysteria over Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speaking at Columbia University is so tiresome for so many reasons....

CV: So says Glenn Greenwald, who despite the topic, can't seem to find the space to utter a single word about the savage executions of gays in Iran (much less their overall plight.)

Expanding upon Ahmadinejad's logic, there's no need to click CV's link to Greenwald, so I left it out. I mean, I shouldn't feel obligated to read someone who doesn't even exist, right?

More seriously, as I recall, Greenwald's big thing was always eliminationist rhetoric. It's actually pretty sad to see Greenwald and so many others on the Left remain mostly silent in the face of what is probably the most eliminationist form of rhetoric one can utter. Iran's theocracy doesn't simply rob certain gay individuals of their life through hanging. Denying the existence of the entire community is so beyond what one will find from even the most puritanical of Andy Sullivan's Christianists, it should be recognized as precisely what it is - it underpins the Iranian state's ability to execute homosexuals at will until Ahmadinejad's statement is actually true. And it isn't only Iran:

A UN vote on homosexual human rights was yesterday derailed at the last minute by an alliance of disapproving Muslim countries.

The UN had been due to vote on the matter for the first time in its almost 60-year history, but five Muslim countries delayed the vote until today and introduced amendments designed to kill it off.

The amendments remove all references to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, and render the resolution meaningless.

Comments

[IslamoLlama]

"More seriously, as I recall, Greenwald's big thing was always eliminationist rhetoric."

Hehe. Definitely one to talk about eliminationist rhetoric, Dan. You gonna gut shot any liberals today? Or is it still against the law?

I, of course, applaud you for once again reiterating the irrelevant. You know what else Greenwald forgot to do? He forgot to chastise Ahmadinejad for not supporting free speech rights. He forgot to berate Ahmadinejad promoting sectarian violence. He never once mentioned Ahmadinejad's deep hatred of Isreal. And he didn't even think to mention his disdain for Hitler. Clearly, Greenwald hates free speech, supports sectarian violence, and wants to have hot sex with Hitler.

You know, Dan, I can't remember a single post you've written that took the USSR to task for the Berlin Wall. Maybe you're a giant Soviet sympathizer? That's the only reasonable conclusion I can come to.

[narciso]

Greenwald, whose most famous client was Matt Hale, the Aryan attorney & preacher who agrees with Ahmadinejad on any number of issues; that
explains it.