A homophobe posts a sarcastic rant in his LJ over the a TV station including a gay character in their new season's proposed programming. Then gets so swamped by opposing comments he deletes the comments and then the whole journal. Not a noteworthy occurence per se.
But one blog post in response to the rant is so eloquent, I am simply in awe of it. It doesn't just smackdown the homophobe, it doesn't just one-up his sarcasm with subtler sarcasm of its own; it explains ethics based on tolerance and empathy, and the elusiveness of morality based on cultural norms, far better than I have ever been able to. Things I felt to be my guiding principles, but was never quite able to articulate, were finally spelled out by someone.
Archive of the now deleted rant. (Some might find it offensive; I find it strangely entertaining.)
http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:xah9iGUp6NUJ:johncwright.livejournal.com/269139.html%3Fthread%3D8339283+/search%3Fhl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3DL4h%26q%3Dhttp://johncwright.livejournal.com/269139.html%2Bsite:johncwright.livejournal.com%2B&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Screencap of deleted rant.
http://pics.livejournal.com/krylonman/pic/00002cb7
The awesome reply.
http://notesfromthegeekshow.blogspot.com/2009/08/open-letter-to-john-c-wright.html#links
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