Posted on 04/15/2016 3:56:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
Back in the 1980s, Bruce Springsteen and other rock stars formed Artists United Against Apartheid and performed a song proclaiming "Sun City" that referenced an entertainment resort in a region of South Africa. The song mocked the Reagan administration's constructive engagement policy to end apartheid. And rock stars also routinely performed in the totalitarian Soviet Union, believing that was incredibly constructive.
One wonders: Will these people ever stop complaining? Today, Springsteen and other so-called artists of conscience have a burning desire to affront a new injustice: transgender people who aren't allowed to celebrate their chosen identity in the opposite sex's bathroom. The state legislature of North Carolina attempted to retain the silly old notion that "single-sex, multiple-occupancy bathroom and changing facilities" should be entered based on a person's biological gender, not what the one they imagine it to be. People on the left have gone berserk.
The most excitable cultural leftists at exotic publications like The New York Times argue that the rarest of rare exemplars of gender confusion having the liberty to use the wrong restroom is a human right on par with those who suffered lynching or racial segregation. This epidemic of "discrimination" -- making those assigned a penis at birth use the men's room --is apparently everywhere. Outside the most liberal cities, it is supported by a large number of Americans.
On this issue, Springsteen is at his most ridiculous: "Taking all of this into account, I feel that this is a time for me and the band to show solidarity for those freedom fighters. ... Some things are more important than a rock show, and this fight against prejudice and bigotry -- which is happening as I write -- is one of them."
Go to Dallas or Pittsburgh or Memphis or Detroit and read that quote to people. They will burst out laughing. But go to New York City and watch some saddle up their horses.
The media in Manhattan are lionizing Springsteen for being a gender identity guerrilla. ABC's sappy Steve Osunsami reported: "Bruce Springsteen, the rock legend who honors veterans and stands up for heroes, is refunding concert tickets today in protest of the new North Carolina law that rolls back protections for gay families and stops transgender residents from using the bathrooms they need." They can't go to the bathroom without Bruce? News writers have called it a "transgender bathroom ban," as if the gender-confused are banned from restrooms altogether.
Springsteen's not alone. This past Sunday, 80s rock star Bryan Adams canceled a show in Biloxi, Miss., due to the state's new religious freedom legislation. The hypocrisy is delicious. It was quickly revealed that Adams performed in Egypt just last month. And he toured other predominantly Muslim destinations in 2010, including Damascus, Doha, Dubai, and Beirut. We're pretty certain those sites don't have transgender bathrooms either.
The cultural left won one battle -- like the imposition of gay marriage on all 50 states -- and now it's using every liberal instrument of corporate and celebrity power to suppress any pocket of resistance to the next new sexual extreme, especially in states that most cherish traditional religious values. "Freedom fighters" is the last label they deserve.
I gave up on springsteen years ago ,,,, he would feel right at home in the little girls room with little steven .
In the liberal bizarro world weirdness is the normal. Screwballs on parade.
Allowing men to view your daughter on the toilet Springsteen, adams, what great fathers! Somehow these famous people and money has eaten away at thier brain if they ever had one
Springsteen got rich and famous by whining. He created victim status for lazy New Jersey guys who drove around in their “suicide machines” rather than studying and working.
This is a poorly argued essay. Does this author support Apartheid? Did Springsteen perform in the Soviet Union?
Actually all of them refusing to go to these states is just like people who don’t want to be involved in gay weddings. I applaud that they now see our side of it. Instead of whacking them we should be applauding that they now get our point!
Kasich once said “shut up and bake the cupcake”. I have heard him say that he would not have signed the North Carolina law, what is he saying? I can guess it is something like “shut up and let the men into the women’s restrooms”.
They stole the rainbow, the = sign, marriage, now they will steal our bathrooms.
F’in insanity!
Stardom creates these idiots who feel privileged to teach us everyday citizens how to live the ideal life .
This one if you have a dick; this one if you don’t. Simple enough to understand.
Conservatives should be clear in taking charge of the debate that it has almost *nothing* to do with the “transgenders” in the United States, and *everything* to do with THREE QUARTERS OF A MILLION SEX OFFENDERS in the US.
“The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) reports that the number of registered sex offenders in the United States in the most recent survey (2012) was 747,408.”
So when liberals whine about “fairness” for transgenders, tell them that what they call “fairness” just means that they support child molesters, rapists, and other *criminal* perverts.
Pursue them on this. Ask them if they support “fairness” through child molestation, child porn, and rape? Any *sane* “feminist” should stand against these things, so you have to ask them, “Do you hate girls and women?”
Good point. Refusing to do business with the ticket-holders, based on their religion, is a crime. Wait, he’s refusing to do business with an entire state. Huge class action suit?
Sue the Boss!
protest of the new North Carolina law that rolls back protections for gay families and stops transgender residents from using the bathrooms they need.”
does anyone else notice, and get frustrated by, the blatant falsehoods and propaganda of the mainstream media???
This law does not roll back protections for gay families. Lie # 1.
This law does not stop “transgendered” people from using public restrooms. Lie # 2.
The liberal hysteria and media meltdown over this is amazing to me.
This one if you have a dick; this one if you don’t. Simple enough to understand.
The very concept of long standing, common sense, laws and social norms, mean nothing to these liberals. These liberals need to make this whole subject much more complicated than it needs to be, in order to make their political statement, and show their solidarity the the LGBT peoples.
Addadicktome = men’s room
Chopitoffame = ladies room
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