SpongeBob SquarePants again

[pegkerr]

wayfairer is absolutely right. You must read this essay by plaidder about why the SpongeBob Squarepants controversy matters. An excerpt:

This battle matters, people. No matter how stupid it looks. This is not just about whether same-sex parents will ever be visible in children's television, or whether gay people will ever be treated right in this country. This is about whether the voters of the next generation will believe that tolerance is a virtue to be encouraged or a vice to be avoided.

I was struck strongly by how the analysis in this essay dovetails very neatly with what Lakoff was arguing about the Religious Right's point of view in his excellent book Moral Politics which I've been pimping ever since minnehaha lent it to me.

Read the essay. It's important.

Comments

[lkw18.livejournal.com]

words like "tolerance and "diversity" are part of a "coded language that is regularly used by the homosexual community.".

Sheesh, that really gets me.
How dare those homosexuals use words like tolerance and diversity! How dare we teach our children those "morals"!

How sad it is.