"FEEL THE RAINBOW NEWT!!!" - Gay rights protester dumps glitter on Newt Gingrich

Lagduf · May 19, 2011

So long as the ends justify the means it's all good bro.

Jedah Doma · May 19, 2011

Agent Sands said:
Simple vocal protest has no effect on Newt. It has no effect on a lot of people. The glitter won't have an effect on him either. But it will have an effect on the people who push him forward. They're obviously talking about this too. Think they would talk about it if it was just some dude holding a sign up? No. But they're talking now, and they're talking about his message that anti-gay sentiment is dividing the nation and not fixing any of the problems. As such, he has succeeded. However many people here seem to be too daft to get that point, and only see things at face value.

Translation, you wanna dash the political aspirations of a person, glitter gets shit done.

You're a dumbass to the end my friend. Though you make this place entertaining with your angst. :buttrock:

Domino-chan · May 19, 2011

Jedah Doma said:
Translation, you wanna dash the political aspirations of a person, glitter gets shit done.

You're a dumbass to the end my friend. Though you make this place entertaining with your angst.

It beats getting punched in the face or dumping pig's blood on their head. At least this was non-violent.

Lagduf · May 19, 2011

I don't recall Dr. King or Gandhi throwing glitter in anyone's face :emb:

Domino-chan · May 19, 2011

Lagduf said:
I don't recall Dr. King or Gandhi throwing glitter in anyone's face

...That would have been weird. And fabulous.

Jedah Doma · May 19, 2011

Lagduf said:
I don't recall Dr. King or Gandhi throwing glitter in anyone's face

Psshhhhh, those two chumps got off easy. Neither of them had to deal with the lifelong shame brought on by a box full of glitter. They just got shot and killed.

Pussies.

bokmeow · May 19, 2011

Lagduf said:
I don't recall Dr. King or Gandhi throwing glitter in anyone's face

I know you're being facetious, but not too many other people will detect the sarcasm in your reply.

What Dr. King and Gandhi did took incredible discipline, in the face of dogs, water cannons, mob beatings, legal arrests under Jim Crow laws, etc. Malcolm X disagreed with King's tactics, and both paid for their resistance with their lives. I need not remind people that King's assassination was the match that lit the large cache of resentment that had stockpiled, triggering the race riots.

When the establishment violently suppresses non-violent resistance and civil disobedience, it only feeds fuel to violent resistance. People can only be expected to give up the blood of so many brothers & sisters, mothers & fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, sons & daughters, before they have no choice but to conclude that the establishment understands only blood for blood.

bokmeow · May 19, 2011

Zenimus said:
What in the world are you guys talking about? This has nothing to do with a person's political alignment. If someone blasted Jimmy Carter with a canister of cheese whiz I'd say the same thing. Any time someone approaches someone else and proceeds to reach into their bag for something to attack them with, it's a potentially dangerous situation.

Beyond that, it's a pitifully childish way to get your point across. "Hur hur, I throwed crap on that guy! That'll show 'im!"

Yeah, if Jimmy Carter was a douche like Newt, then I would disapprove of the person's position, but I would not disapprove of his tactic. It is well within his right to express his displeasure through creative agitational demonstration.

Jimmy Carter is a fucking awesome ex-president. Not a single ex-president has taken the amount of courage as he had to turn the spotlight on Israel's discriminatory racist state.

You're a potentially dangerous situation.
You're a pitifully childish way to get your point across.
(The last 2 lines is my being facetious… mostly)

Lagduf · May 19, 2011

bokmeow said:
I know you're being facetious, but not too many other people will detect the sarcasm in your reply.

What Dr. King and Gandhi did took incredible discipline, in the face of dogs, water cannons, mob beatings, legal arrests under Jim Crow laws, etc. Malcolm X disagreed with King's tactics, and both paid for their resistance with their lives. I need not remind people that King's assassination was the match that lit the large cache of resentment that had stockpiled, triggering the race riots.

When the establishment violently suppresses non-violent resistance and civil disobedience, it only feeds fuel to violent resistance. People can only be expected to give up the blood of so many brothers & sisters, mothers & fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, sons & daughters, before they have no choice but to conclude that the establishment understands only blood for blood.

This is a fantastic post all around. It's a shame the civil rights movement of the 1950-70s isn't covered more in American public education. But, problems with our education system in general are a whole 'nother topic.

I've great respect for Dr. King, Malcom X, and the Black Panther Party for Self Defense (as well as dozens of other groups and individuals I'm most certainly unaware of.)

I still don't agree with childish agitation tactics. Maybe I just don't agree with being a dick to another person. I don't know. The battle for equal rights for homosexuals will be won in the courts.

bokmeow said:
Yeah, if Jimmy Carter was a douche like Newt, then I would disapprove of the person's position, but I would not disapprove of his tactic. It is well within his right to express his displeasure through creative agitational demonstration.

Jimmy Carter is a fucking awesome ex-president. Not a single ex-president has taken the amount of courage as he had to turn the spotlight on Israel's discriminatory racist state.

You're a potentially dangerous situation.
You're a pitifully childish way to get your point across.
(The last 2 lines is my being facetious… mostly)

Carter should have been a Secretary of State.

Lagduf · May 19, 2011

I just don't like having (figurative and/or literal) shit thrown on me. It's childish. All I'm saying.

OrochiEddie · May 19, 2011

Lagduf said:
This is a fantastic post all around. It's a shame the civil rights movement of the 1950-70s isn't covered more in American public education. But, problems with our education system in general are a whole 'nother topic.

I've great respect for Dr. King, Malcom X, and the Black Panther Party for Self Defense (as well as dozens of other groups and individuals I'm most certainly unaware of.)

I still don't agree with childish agitation tactics. Maybe I just don't agree with being a dick to another person. I don't know. The battle for equal rights for homosexuals will be won in the courts.

Carter should have been a Secretary of State.

Its hard to compare, but the peaceful protests of the civil rights movement involved a lot of "annoying" tactics. Sit-ins and the like. Not saying its the same as throwing glitter, but I guess there is a thin parallel

evil wasabi · May 19, 2011

Jedah Doma said:
Translation, you wanna dash the political aspirations of a person, glitter gets shit done.

You're a dumbass to the end my friend. Though you make this place entertaining with your angst.

How so. Explain your point completely. Completely disprove that republicans are not at all talking more about this guy who threw glitter and the statement he made, versus one single guy holding a sign in peaceful protest.

Explain it with more effort than the vigorous assfucking you give your wife while thinking of the members on this site. You have a very faggot face, boy. Think anyone really sees your wife as more than a beard? Come out already.

SML · May 19, 2011

Lagduf said:
The battle for equal rights for homosexuals will be won in the courts.

Don't say gay, say Takei!

Lagduf · May 19, 2011

OrochiEddie said:
Its hard to compare, but the peaceful protests of the civil rights movement involved a lot of "annoying" tactics. Sit-ins and the like. Not saying its the same as throwing glitter, but I guess there is a thin parallel

The only parallel is that sit-ins certainly made those in favor of the status quo angry undoubtedly much like throwing glitter in one's face would make someone angry.

That's a weak parallel at best. Throwing something on someone's face is entirely confrontational. I'd argue sit-ins and the like weren't confrontational per se, certainly they aroused anger but they weren't necessarily direct attacks on one individual.

Either way glitter dude got what he wanted. Media attention. I think his actions were childish and crude. If you want to tear a man down then do it in a clever fashion.

Domino-chan · May 19, 2011

This thread is making me want to add glitter to my next art project. Thanks.

OrochiEddie · May 19, 2011

Lagduf said:
The only parallel is that sit-ins certainly made those in favor of the status quo angry undoubtedly much like throwing glitter in one's face would make someone angry.

That's a weak parallel at best. Throwing something on someone's face is entirely confrontational. I'd argue sit-ins and the like weren't confrontational per se, certainly they aroused anger but they weren't necessarily direct attacks on one individual.

Either way glitter dude got what he wanted. Media attention. I think his actions were childish and crude. If you want to tear a man down then do it in a clever fashion.

and yea, like I said it was a WEAK connection. I think their intentions were the same, to gain attention by causing inconvenience and by not being violent.

Lagduf · May 19, 2011

OrochiEddie said:
and yea, like I said it was a WEAK connection. I think their intentions were the same, to gain attention by causing inconvenience and by not being violent.

Dr. King and co. did their protests with dignity, what this glitter dude did was childish, and crude. The end result might be the same but whatever. Glitter dude is still a douche IMO.

aria · May 19, 2011

Dude, glitter is funny in this context as far as I'm concerned.

Flour could've potentially been more hilarious, just because he would've looked like a ghost or someone from Apocalypto immediately afterward.

aria · May 19, 2011

Lagduf said:
Dr. King and co. did their protests with dignity, what this glitter dude did was childish, and crude. The end result might be the same but whatever. Glitter dude is still a douche IMO.

I'd like to think that if Dr. King were around, he'd find that sort of thing at least vaguely amusing. He'd also find himself conflicted that he enjoys films by Tyler Perry but is embarrassed to admit it.

Lagduf · May 19, 2011

Let's just assume I've got no sense of humor and leave it at that.

Segata_Sanshiro · May 19, 2011

It's the PETA strategy

When you talk about them being idiots for calling fish 'sea kittens,' you're giving them exactly what they want...

attention

Glittering Newt makes sense from a propaganda standpoint

NeoTheranthrope · May 19, 2011

Lagduf said:
I don't recall Dr. King or Gandhi throwing glitter in anyone's face

Actually, Gandhi threw salt during the protest against the British salt monopoly in colonial India in 1942.

Gandhi was a pacifist but he was no wimp.

Lagduf · May 19, 2011

NeoTheranthrope said:
Actually, Gandhi threw salt during the protest against the British salt monopoly in colonial India in 1942.

Gandhi was a pacifist but he was no wimp.

aria · May 20, 2011

NeoTheranthrope said:
Actually, Gandhi threw salt during the protest against the British salt monopoly in colonial India in 1942.

Gandhi was a pacifist but he was no wimp.

I knew he made salt, but did he also throw it?

Incidentally I visited the spot in Mumbai he always stayed at, vid I took below.

I really need to get around to uploading and sharing my India stuff.

Segata_Sanshiro · May 20, 2011

Broback said:
I knew he made salt, but did he also throw it?

Incidentally I visited the spot in Mumbai he always stayed at, vid I took below.

I really need to get around to uploading and sharing my India stuff.

do it son

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