I wonder if President Obama endorses this sort of rhetoric. What else do we need to learn about safe schools czar Kevin Jennings before he’s thrown under the bus?
Via Gateway Pundit:
Verum Serum discovered this article by Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings in 1998:
We need to own up to the fact that our culture teaches boys that being “a man” is the most important thing in life, even if you have to kill someone to prove it. Killing someone who calls you a faggot is not aberrant behavior but merely the most extreme expression of a belief that is beaten (sometimes literally) into boys at an early age in this country: Be a man – don’t be a faggot.
As Suzanne Pharr so eloquently explained in her landmark work Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism, antigay bigotry is inextricably intertwined with the maintenance of “proper” gender roles by which little girls are supposed to be “sugar and spice and everything nice” and boys are supposed to be, well, quite the opposite. When boys take up guns to kill those who torment them with words like “faggot,” we shouldn’t be surprised. They’re just doing what we have taught them to do.
Update: The headline has been changed – see comment below from the source. The headline was written in haste – my apologies.
[...] gather. And as usual, it says much more about them than it does the target of their attack. Safe Schools Czar Condoned Murder as a Weapon Against Anti Gay Slurs – lonelyconservative.com 10/12/2009 I wonder if President Obama endorses this sort of rhetoric. [...]
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Please note that Jennings did not “condone” murder.
What he did do is suggest that murder is merely an extreme result of parental teaching on what it means to be a man. That’s the story. Kevin Jennings believes “safe schools” are schools where manhood (and thus consequent violence) are diminished.
It’s your call, but I think a correction of the headline is in order.
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