I don't really have much in the way of commentary to add to this, but I'd just like to say how much it pisses me off to see these assholes trying to prevent high school kids from promoting tolerance. I don't get why, in an age of school shootings and apathetic teens, anyone would try to silence voices preaching peace and understanding.
Anyway, the General's satire is better for this sort of thing than my poorly written irritation, so...
A threat greater than the homosexuals
Superintendent, Yakima County School District
Dear Dr. Soria,
I know you're going to catch a lot of heat for canceling A. C. Davis High's production of The Laramie Project.
Godless promoters of tolerance will certainly point out that there is nothing in the script that anyone would find offensive, but that is a lie. The play is a brutal indictment of one of our most effective tools for enforcing cultural conformity--the use of violence against those who would corrupt our culture by acting on their in-born attraction to those of their own gender. The Laramie Project demeans our long tradition of encouraging homophobia. It flings mud upon the Jackboots of Righteousness we've shined so lovingly for generations. What could be more offensive than that?
I know you're going to catch a lot of heat for canceling A. C. Davis High's production of The Laramie Project.
Godless promoters of tolerance will certainly point out that there is nothing in the script that anyone would find offensive, but that is a lie. The play is a brutal indictment of one of our most effective tools for enforcing cultural conformity--the use of violence against those who would corrupt our culture by acting on their in-born attraction to those of their own gender. The Laramie Project demeans our long tradition of encouraging homophobia. It flings mud upon the Jackboots of Righteousness we've shined so lovingly for generations. What could be more offensive than that?
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But the play is the least of the
problems emanating from A.C. Davis High School. The greatest threat to
our values stands in the school's courtyard. I'm referring to the statue
of the Yakima County School District's most infamous student, Justice
William O. Douglas Jr. Its presence mocks every value in which we
believe. To stand before it is to stand before some demonic apparition
whose long-ago-uttered words continue to reverberate off the courtyard's walls. Indeed, Douglas seems to speak through his bronzed likeness, reminding us:
"Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor."
and
"Free
speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter.
The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same
performance."
and most importantly,
"As
nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both
instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly
unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change
in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the
darkness."
The statue represents a bygone era, a time when men like William O' Douglas were cheered for such libertine ideas
as the right the voice unpopular ideas and to be the person you are
rather than who others compel you to be. As such, the statue must be
brought down. It must be brought down in a very public way through a
well-managed photo op involving flags, military vehicles, and cheering
crowds of patriots. That way, the citizens of Yakima will know that the
dark days of Justice Douglas' mockery are finally behind us.
---
Thus spake Gen. JC Christian, Patriot
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