The Petty and the Vile: From Westboro Baptist Church to Sen. John McCain, LGBT people are unfortunately accustomed to vile political attacks

Opinion: Crossing Twitter with gigantic cultural events can always be counted on to bring out the worst in the already bad. Two Super Bowl tweets were particularly vile. First there was former FEMA director Michael Brown cracking a joke about fights in the Superdome, which just happened to be the site of his monstrous Hurricane Katrina failure — a joke that requires both hubris and idiocy. Second was Todd Kincannon, former head of the South Carolina GOP, joking that the Super Bowl ''sucks more dick than adult Trayvon Martin would have for drug money'' — a joke that requires racism and idiocy. Lesson one, racists have an awful sense of humor. Lesson two, even in 2013 with no rational reason, some people are going to remain racist jackholes. I don't believe that as a country we are more vile today than we were in the past. It's impossible to look back on American history as some sort of bucolic existence that's only recently begun a slide into vituperation, although that doesn't stop tea party revisionists from trying. Politics and culture wars have never been pretty. But I do think that, as our culture and government continue to progress on race and LGBT issues, the few remaining restraints of decorum on those who oppose it will continue to fall away. ... (more)

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