Useful Idiots Guests In The News: Jesse Singal Saga Continues
Writer Dan Savage becomes the latest target of a Twitter meltdown, for defending Singal
Updating Useful Idiots followers on developments with the show’s guests:
GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, just launched a new program called the GLAAD accountability project. The program “catalogs anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and discriminatory actions of politicians, commentators, organization heads, religious leaders, and legal figures who have used their platforms, influence and power to spread misinformation and harm LGBTQ people.”
Jesse Singal, who along with his Blocked and Reported co-host Katie Herzog was a guest on last week’s Useful Idiots, was included on the GLAAD Wall of Shame. Singal objected to being put on a list with Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and other worthies. Noted progressive/LGBTQ icon Dan Savage — the man who coined the neologism “Santorum” — did something we don’t often see on social media these days, and backed him up:
As Herzog pointed out, Savage somewhat incredibly ended up trending in the U.S…
… as much of Twitter spent the evening of March 22-23 listing reasons to despise Dan Savage who, it turns out, not only sucks, but always has sucked:
We at Useful Idiots have no comment, except to make the obvious observation that we somehow caused all of this. For those who missed last week’s episode, here’s that interview:
Cheers to Dan!
There are some really motivated cancel culture influencers out there. I cannot decide what is worse frankly. The actual attacking of Jesse and Dan by groups of reactive people or the sheer paucity of evidence and research pointing to the accusation at hand.
Its almost as if the Trump derangement syndrome (I say this as someone who identifies to the far left of Marx) has gone viral and created an entire era of destructive entitlement around a monolithic aspect of a person's lived experience (gender, race, religion, ethnicity).
Is it too late to remind everyone on planet earth - that each of us are more than any one category we are ascribed to, by an outside observer in the surveillance state?
Jesus fucking Christ - this is messed up.
We need some incisive, unsparing journalism into the personal lives of the people who sent these tweets. I for one am very curious to know everything. Everything. Let nothing be hidden any longer.