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Cohen offensively denies responsibility for the logical results of demonizing and dehumanizing homosexuals. This tactic is typically employed by purveyors of hate speech. Morris Dees, working against a similar defense, crippled the KKK by legally proving the connection between the rancorous speech of its leaders and the violence of its followers.
On the positive side, American public opinion has shifted so strongly against bigotry directed at homosexuals that Cohen and his like-minded friends in Washington have to export their hate. Unfortunately, as Maddow discussed, there appears to be at least one nation eager to live out the predictable consequences of the "homosexuality as a dangerous disease" theory. Hopefully publicizing the links between the movement in Uganda and certain members of the US Congress will shame them into using their influence to stop the travesty, but hatred is always easier to foment than to quell.
But what really caught my eye was this:
That is Cohen displaying his methods. I could spend a thousand years trying to come up with the funniest, most absurd anti-gay treatment, and I would never be able concoct something as risible as that man climbing into the other's lap. I thought he was going to attempt to breast feed. Then you add the ever-so-gentle caressing and the enraged haranguing of the conjured image of his mother and you have comedy gold.
And another pseudo-scientist engages in self-parody the moment his chimerical ideas escape the tight circle of true believers.
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