Comments on: Orson Scott Card Wants YOU (To Rise Up Against The Gay Menace)

By: RevJSH

RevJSH — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:10:28 +0000

ScottyV: Like most knee-jerk, do-gooder (read: attention whore), reactards, you have oversimplified an extremely complex issue. Try reading about socialization, neural imprints, envirmonmental conditioning and a little human psychology. Try understanding other human beings, just as you are asking bigots to do, instead of clenching up your mental sphincter and spewing immature hateful invective. Human relations are surprisingly more complex than the Aristotlean yes/no dichotomy you are applying to the problem. People become bigots by doing exactly what you have done, which is to divide the world into areas black and white, rather than varying degrees of grey. I would keep my mouth and eyes closed if I were you and try not to breathe in, because im certain you have your head lodged directly up your ass.

By: bob moynes

bob moynes — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:26:21 +0000

I find this odd as I came here to tell Card he could have saved 40 million years of if he had just killed off the assholes that were inciting to rebel, funny he is so tolerant when he is writing. Nice of him to prove my point, people do not put up with rude behavior and should not.
As for gays, send them to china maybe they can control the birth rate.

By: ScottieV

ScottieV — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:45:55 +0000

Swaim– awesome article. Your point was nicely articulated.
RevJSH– how about eating a giant, overflowing(in fact, erupting) bag of cocks. Bigotry is nothing but a product of poor thinking, ignorance, and stupid-as-fuck choices. To say it’s beyond one’s ability to not fucking choose to be a bigot is quite possibly THE MOST RETARDED THING i have ever read; 1000’s of times more retarded than Mr Scott Card’s rant against homosexuals. You, sir, are an enabler. Again, swallow as many fucking penises as are immediately available, and immediately seek out more upon finishing said penises.

By: james humphries

james humphries — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:16:30 +0000

contra to the variety of “stick to dick jokes” comments, i thought i’d add my two pennies an’ aw. excellent article man; the best comedy comes from a serious place. keep it up.

By: carzygirl

carzygirl — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:38:08 +0000

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By: pieeater250

pieeater250 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:10:01 +0000

holy crap! i thought i was the only person ever to read enders game! (and the other 3 books whatever) and i thought the suits would look stupid but not that stupid

By: Excession

Excession — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:36:57 +0000

xStephan, I would like to know what “qualifications” you think a person needs to be able to express their opinions. Just because this is a comedy website shouldn’t mean that you can’t deliver messages in a comedic way. I found this article both funny and thoughtful.

By: RevJSH

RevJSH — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:15:19 +0000

I enjoyed the comments here and was surprised to find so many well thought out ideas and opinions. However, this one got missed:
Being a bigot is everybodies right. The whole argument against any form of prejudice is that it is unfair to judge people because of personal characteristics that were shaped by their genes or the environments that they have been exposed to. But bigotry itself is a product of environment and is often based on experiences from our youth. You can get religion, sexual preferences and bigotry from the same place…life. Hating bigots is just a bizzare, contradictory form of metabigotry (yeah, i just made that word up). Everyone is entitled to their own opinion now matter how stupid, backwards and hateful it may be so long as they don’t actually cause harm to another human being. It may suck, but prejudice is in the script, and every role must be played by someone. Bigotry will always exist in some form. For everything that becomes culturally acceptable something new will pop up to take it’s place. Someday homosexuals will have equal rights across the board and there will be twelve gay men standing outside Disneyland protesting the right of furrys to dress up in the Goofy costume. And someday those furries will be protesting the right of Alien (like, outerspace, ya know) refugee’s to marry humans. Hate is here to stay, but to be a part of the solution rather than the problem, try not to hate the haters.

By: xStephan

xStephan — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:02:26 +0000

Dude, totally great about your beliefs and all that, but here’s the thing: I think its fair to say that most people look to Cracked as a “Purveyor of Dick Jokes” and not for social and political commentary. This article is just like al those celebrities who endorse politicians and issues and think people should listen to them, despite them having no qualifications to speak on the subject: You have (just as aforementioned celebrities have) earned your self a podium to speak to people with, and you use it to promote something at odds with why you have the podium in the first place.

What I’m trying to say is, stick to, you know, comedy.

By: Nova

Nova — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:53:59 +0000

Boycotting is going a little too far Mr. Swaim, people had, have and will have retarded opinions, even people who may come off as educated or smart. You gotta separate the art from the person I say.
But I agree 100% on the whole “caveman reading”

“Enders’s game was a masterpiece, too bad it was wrtitten by a gay-fucking-fearing asshole.”