Tell it to a warrior.
SC POLITICO RESPONDS TO ATTACKS ON REDHEADS
A recent wave of anti-Ginger persecution has reached a new low after a 12-year-old California boy was reportedly beaten because of his red hair.
The assault took place last week at A.E. Wright Middle School in Calabasas, Calif. Police said the boy’s beating, by as many as 14 classmates, may have been spurred on by a Facebook message saying that Friday was was “Kick a Ginger Day.”
The attack has one South Carolina politico seeking to — pardon the pun — shed some light on the issue of Ginger harassment.
South Carolina Republican Party Third Vice Chairman Adam Piper, himself a Ginger, was outraged.
“There is no place for bias and intolerance based on hair color or any other characteristic in America,” Piper said.
Despite the recent attacks on his people, Piper said he does not support hate crime legislation. “We need one set of laws regardless of one’s hair color or any other characteristic.”
Police said they were not prosecuting the attack as a hate crime.
The anti-Ginger meme largely began after a 2005 episode of the adult animated series “South Park” in which one character sought to destroy everyone with red hair, freckles and fair skin.
This is a bullshit post. For one thing, he cites no other US instances of his claimed "wave of anti-Ginger persecution", even though the link says "ginger persecution intensifies." Second, no GOP offcial is going to make so expansive a statement as Pudge attributes to junior assistant deputy vice president Adam Piper. For one thing, that sort of comment would admit gays have rights. For another, it's unsourced, which in Scoopland means proceed at your own risk. There is no other source for the comment than Boy Fogle. Third, you've got Boy Fogle's long and well-documented antipathy to the rights of real groups his party- and his paymasters- work to discriminate against under law- not to mention his insatiable desire to ride such stories to publicity for himself. Such as here; and here; and here; and here; and here; and here; and here; and particularly here; here; here (where he insists, unchallenged, that he's not a homophobic bigot); and here. Fourth, all South Park did was a appropriate a British term for reddish-haired people- rather common there- that goes back to the 1820s. He could look it up in the OED, for example.
It says a lot about the hacks of the SC GOP mailrooms that beating up people can be made into a joke. Because, as anybody who's been on the receiving end knows, the first thing bullies try to do is dehumanize people they want to go after. Boy Fogle, whose personal hypocrisy knows no bounds when it comes to accepting interventionist legislation his party opposed but that benefits him- here, and here- will, we hope never experience harassment or persecution based on disability thanks to the extension of federal hate crimes law both SC senators and all the SC Republican congressmen opposed.
Take note, Scoopy: your party didn't- and doesn't- give a flying fuck if somebody wanted to pick on you for your situation. Will you be sitting back waiting for them to end your manufactured ginger plague?
J'accuse!
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