Students ridicule DOMA supporters as ‘hideous’ and ‘disgusting’ outside Supreme Court
It’s nice to see such civility and respect coming from those instructed on the fine points of “tolerance” at their progressive institutions!
Gay marriage supporters ridiculed supporters of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California’s Proposition 8 outside the Supreme Court in Washington D.C., on Wednesday morning, calling their views “disgusting.”
“I’m sorry but that’s hideous, it’s disgusting,” a student told Campus Reform. “[I] feel nothing for them at all. I don’t feel bad that they are upset.”
“It’s not a meeting of the flat world society,” admonished another student. “It’s 2013.”
“I would just tell them to sit in it, because we’re a lot more powerful than they are and if they bother to fight back, we’ll come back twice as strong,” said one student who said he was from New York University. “Sit down, I’d tell them to sit down.”
Many also equated the outcome of the case with that of previous civil rights cases.
“I think they’ll survive,” another student said. “I mean, people survived after Loving vs. Virginia and Brown vs. Board of Education, so I think they’ll get through it. So, they can relax.”
[VIDEO]: Students ridicule DOMA supporters as ‘hideous’ and ‘disgusting’ outside Supreme Court (Campus Reform)
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Ah, the good ol’ argumentum ad annum (I don’t know real Latin, so if that’s not what the fallacy I’m about to describe would be called in Latin, I blame America’s failing school system): It is 20XX, therefore I am right. What’s great is, because it’s a non sequitur, it works both ways. If “It’s 2013” means that opposing same-sex marriage is wrong, then didn’t “It’s 2012” mean that opposing same-sex marriage was right? In that case, how can anyone criticize those on the “wrong side of history”? At the time that they were “wrong,” they were actually right! What’s more, if we had perfect knowledge then we would know in what year some formerly accepted belief becomes generally maligned, and so, until that year, we could argue against those who would malign it by pointing to the year!
Of course, what is right is right, and what is wrong is wrong, independent of the present year. The passage of time, on its own, changes nothing. “It’s 2013” is an unreasoned attempt to shame someone into adopting a position, rather than engaging in rational discourse to convince the person.
In sum, we’re screwed.