Famously, advocates for free speech point as a central tenet of their ideological position that it should protect firefighters who let someone’s house burn down because they don’t like them.
Suing seems a bit low key. I suggest burning the place to the ground, raking the ashes, and then sowing them with salt so that the magnitude of their shame and dishonor because of this treatment can be seen from space.
It’s Oklahoma. That’d be a land improvement initiative.
…burn it down and replace the entire town with a vast Harriet Tubman Museum & Memorial Center?
Oklahoma! What are you doing?
This sounds like a plot to “the Fall Guy,” or something.
Or they feel very confident that our current Justice Dept is on their side.
Yep. Hater empowerment positively radiates from the WH.
Their bullshit started pre-Trump.
According to wiki (sorry) & some OK history site, Hitchcock OK’s population stood at 121 in 2010 & 2015.
That’s a frickin’ dense hate ratio. They’re so fucking hateful they didn’t want 3 more residents/taxpayers/potential friends because one --a child-- is black?!?
I’ve been in Walmart (sorry) with a higher occupancy but less hate.
I’d say “wow,” but I just read this very good book, so I’ll say instead, “I’m not surprised.”
They have a GoFundMe set up to help them start over and pay legal fees.
–> Help the Gamel-Medler Family <–
Everything was lost in the fire and lawsuits (even pro-bono ones) can be a financial burden on plaintiffs.
Nice firehouse you have there…
That’s a pretty small town… Maybe there’s a gay biker gang that outnumbers them.
Just putting that out there…
Really inappropriate. You shouldn’t read it.
We shoot the hick, the dumb the lame
We do our best to maim,
Because the kills all count the same,
Napalm sticks to rednecks
Chorus: Napalm sticks to rednecks
Napalm sticks to rednecks
Flying low across the planes,
Pilots doing what they please,
Dropping frags on backward hicks,
Napalm sticks to rednwcks
Goods in the open, making hay,
But I can hear the gunships say,
"There’ll be no evangelizing today,"
Napalm sticks to rednecks
See those farmers over there,
Watch me get them with a pair,
Blood and guts just everywhere,
Napalm sticks to rebnecks.
I’ve only seen it happen twice,
But both times it was mighty nice,
Shooting bigots burning cross,
Napalm sticks to rednecks.
Napalm, son, is lots of fun,
Dropped in a bomb or shot from a gun,
It gets the Okies when on the run,
Napalm sticks to rednecks.
Drop some napalm on a farm,
It won’t do them any harm,
Just burn off their legs and arms,
Napalm sticks to rednecks.
Now, let’s not be judgmental. They could be David Duke or Lyndon LaRouche supporters.
According to the reports the civil rights lawsuit was filed in federal court, which should keep the decision out of the hands of the good ol’ boys in Hitchcock. Hopefully.
Claim is here:
“Plaintiff is a gay man with an adopted seven year old African-American son.
These facts were not known to the Defendants when they began the actions of harassment
described below.”
Do we think that second sentence is a typo and should be “were known”?
Don’t white knight a joke. No one is blaming the victim here. I’m just gently mocking small town Oklahoma.
exactly
Hey, that’s actually good news. Little justice to be found in those small towns.
Nosey folks’ll peek through their shutters and their eyes will pop.
