HOLY LOLLER
May. 16th, 2007 10:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
profundisIt's simply not realistic to expect or even wish that people will be over talking about a figure as infamous/famous as Jerry Falwell within 24 hours of his passing.
Whether you hate, love or could care less about him and his life or death - people talk. People have opinions that have formed over years and they aren't going to be done expressing them in less than one day. If we are still going on about it 3 months, that will be annoying but how long did the OJ thing and the Anna thing and even the iPhone thing go on?
On a personal note I think there is something of a generation gap on this topic - I feel like younguns are more apt to think "Falwell who?" since televangelists were already objects of hilarity by the time they were old enough to be aware of him. The best thing I can say to that, is that I am so happy that they have grown up in a world where the internet has largely replaced TV and if someone says something hateful on it - well, they can just "go cry about it in their Livejournals" and know they aren't alone...and that there are other opinions out there - that they are not themselves wrong or broken or sinful or evil for not living up to the "moral" standards espoused by bigots.
As much as it makes me shake my head, I'm actually glad that there is a generation of 'mos that have the mental and social luxury of feeling sorry for someone who was so unsympathetic to them and people like them - because that means that *we* won. We're still here. We survived. He's food for worms.
We're here, we're queer, get over it.
Hallelujah.
Whether you hate, love or could care less about him and his life or death - people talk. People have opinions that have formed over years and they aren't going to be done expressing them in less than one day. If we are still going on about it 3 months, that will be annoying but how long did the OJ thing and the Anna thing and even the iPhone thing go on?
On a personal note I think there is something of a generation gap on this topic - I feel like younguns are more apt to think "Falwell who?" since televangelists were already objects of hilarity by the time they were old enough to be aware of him. The best thing I can say to that, is that I am so happy that they have grown up in a world where the internet has largely replaced TV and if someone says something hateful on it - well, they can just "go cry about it in their Livejournals" and know they aren't alone...and that there are other opinions out there - that they are not themselves wrong or broken or sinful or evil for not living up to the "moral" standards espoused by bigots.
As much as it makes me shake my head, I'm actually glad that there is a generation of 'mos that have the mental and social luxury of feeling sorry for someone who was so unsympathetic to them and people like them - because that means that *we* won. We're still here. We survived. He's food for worms.
We're here, we're queer, get over it.
Hallelujah.
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Date: 2007-05-16 04:05 pm (UTC)Agreed. I too wish that he had lived long enough to eventually repent, unlikely as that may be. But I'm happy with the silence, even it it came about because of his death.
JOhn.
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Date: 2007-05-16 04:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-16 04:46 pm (UTC)JOhn.