Let’s play a game. You tell me how many ways the following is wrong and why.
On Tuesday’s edition of the Family Research Council’s “Washington Watch” program, Religious Right activist and rabbi Daniel Lapin repeated his bizarre claim that liberals are sexually attracted to radical Islam. Lapin told FRC President Tony Perkins that there is a “sexual dimension” to liberals’ supposed love for Islamic extremism, claiming “effeminate” liberals are sexually attracted to the “masculinity” of Islamic fundamentalism and are experiencing “Stockholm Syndrome.”
“There are countless studies showing that feminine-type behavior produces an excess of estrogen in men and vice versa,” Lapin said. “Essentially, the left has fallen in love with the masculinity of Islam.”
He continued: “Today, after a 30- or 40-year epidemic of leftism that has swept its sordid stain across America, we’ve become much more feminized and we are attracted to the masculine strength and brutality of Islam. This is the girl in the high school being attracted to the bad, tough guy and that’s really what’s happening. There is no other way that I know of to explain this utterly irrational — and as soon as I said to myself that it’s irrational, I said, where else do you see irrational behavior? When people are sexually attracted you see irrational behavior. On a spiritual level, the feminized American left, show business, politicians, particularly academia, all the people who love Islam, when Christianity and Judaism are exactly the reverse.”
I’ll wait here.
I can’t count that high.
Do these rightwing christo-fascists ever stop fantasizing and obsessing about the sexual lives of others? Now that’s irrational.
Where this nutcase see “masculinity” of Islamic fundamentalism, lefties see a ME version of the Duck guys. Gross beards, costumes in need of laundering, and lauding a fictional sky god. Oh, and they love guns. Lefties aren’t into weapons as a substitute for authentic strength of character.
I think you can only say “wow, that is nuts” since counting what is wrong will result in so many double and triple counts. If statement n+4 is based on statement n, do I count that as two wrong things or just one?
His entire feminine/masculine sexual attraction creed is so obviously insane that it is hard to pick out points.
I read the first paragraph and could not go any further. I’m positive the rest was sure to stain my soul.
Kinda like the right’s fetish with the bold and brash Putin. Or something.
There’s only one lie in this piece, it’s when the author claims that he’s writing about liberals instead of conservatives. Switch liberal with conservative and every thing he says about their man-crushes on Islamic terrorists is true.
There is really no point in even trying to dissect this stuff. It’s not really meant to be a rational, or even remotely understandable, presentation of a viewpoint. It is simply another case of extreme right-wing word salad with all of the usual emotional triggers necessary to get the juices flowing in the intended audience; namely the homophobic, xenophobic, misogynistic, fundamentalist Christian wing of the Republican Party.
Sadly, I personally know too many people who would nod approvingly at this bullshit.
There are countless studies showing that feminine-type behavior produces an excess of estrogen in men
Technically true. You cannot count what doesn’t exist.
Look all this is, is an attempt by a RW wacko to try and get the Liberals all upset so he can seem relevant and gain some much needed attention. This can all be easily handled by remembering whatever the RW is claiming everyone else is doing and the reasons for said action. Is all based upon what they actually are doing and craving. Who focuses enormous amounts of attention to Islam almost everyday, the RW. There is your simple answer just point out they are they ones with all of those desires for followers of Islam and move on. Watch them squirm and protest loudly as they always do when caught.
They think that they’re Maureen Dowd would be one.
Denied permits to expand his studio by neighbors who objected, the Contra Costa Times reports Marin County: George Lucas proposes 224-unit affordable housing development
It’s a beautiful site and Marin county housing prices have long forced teachers and local workers to live outside the county and commute. So, reducing the number of commuters will be good for the environment as well. The only downside is that the residents will be car dependent because public transportation doesn’t extend down Lucas Valley Rd. (Note Lucas Valley was named in the 19th century and not for George Lucas. Nearby houses fifty year old Eichler houses are in the million dollar price range.)
how can one be sexually attracted to a religion? this guy needs a sex education course.
Well, yes, Errol, there’s that. There’s also this:
“When people are sexually attracted you see irrational behavior.”
Sexual attraction is the most rational instinct possible.
yes, if I were a psychologist-Frist, I would say this guy is so obsessed w sex he sees it everywhere (yes, friends, Heidegger is writing about sex), yet totally condemns himself for it hence projects it onto everything, or the like.
“…if I were a psychologist-Frist…”.
I saw what you did there. Lulz…
a lot of underwear ads.
And we wonder why there isn’t peace in the Middle East? Last I heard Jesus said “feed the poor” that sounds like a liberal idea to me.
KNOW OF…”
I’ll only tell you that one, but I think it’s central. His willfully self-imposed ignorance (aka “epistemic closure”) is fully sufficient to explain all the rest.
A contradiction in terminis … a rabbi and his masculinity in relations to women and sexual discipline.
The Rabbi must be a friend of the Bush family … sexually aroused in White House gossip? Remember our journalist for Talon News, Jeff Gannon? Speaking of fetishism in the shades of power …
New Jersey Rabbi Allegedly Raped, Sexually Abused – Police: Hasidic Rabbi, Three Sons Accused of Rape – Married Orthodox Rabbi, Father Of 11 Children, Accused of Molesting Israeli Army Officer (Female) – Dutch News: Alleged sex predator rabbi can be extradited to Israel
Can we get this poor man some help? He’s really broken.
Jeez, it’s always projection with these aggressively silly people. The Eternal War and Torture higher power that right-wing fundamentalists worship seems pretty “masculine,” in the way many define masculinity, anyway.
Seriously.
It’s projection. All the way down.
and turtles
Still, at least they’re macho Ninja turtles.
Has this dude, who imagines himself to be hyper-masculine, worked it out yet why the Left hasn’t fallen in love with him?
Is it wrong that I’m turned on right now?
Does this mean that Christianity and Judaism are feminine?
Note that in addition to the usual wingnut fixation on sex, this also demonstrates the common wingnut belief that all of the wingnut’s enemies are working together. Thus, wingnuts actually believe that feminists supported Osama bin Laden and environmentalists supported the Soviet Union. No, I am not making this up.
“wingnuts believe their enemies are working together” is a tautology, not a common belief?