Phil Robertson, Eminem and Bias of the Gay Culture

Editorial note: this post quotes offensive language in order to prove a point about bias in American media. The author and ISI do not condone the use of this language, but in fact condemn it as degrading, deeply offensive, and subhuman. 

Why does our culture tend to single out particular people to criticize mercilessly and sabotage their careers? Why is a “standard” applied to some but not others? I have two quotes. The first is from Phil Robertson, recently cited thousands of times:

Everything is blurred on what’s right and what’s wrong. Sin becomes fine…Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men. Don’t be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers — they won’t inherit the kingdom of God. Don’t deceive yourself. It’s not right.

and here’s one by famous rapper Eminem from a newer song, Rap God:

I attempt these lyrical acrobat stunts while I’m practicing that I’ll still be able to break a m***********g tableover the back of a couple of fa****s and crack it in half…Little gay looking boy…So gay I can barely say it with a straight face looking boy…Never ask nobody for s**t, get outta my face looking boy. Basically boy you’re never gonna be capable to keep up with the same pace looking boy.

Now, which one is more offensive to you? One places homosexuality among sins, the other demonizes it using violence. One stems from beliefs rooted in the Christian morals upon which the country was founded, the other from a hatred of those whose persuasions are other than straight. One is a simple expression of an opinion using the American right to free speech, the other is, to be quite honest, brutal.

So what’s going on here then? Was there ever an uproar of this scale about Eminem’s song? Nope. Why not? Because lately it doesn’t have so much to do with opinions as much as their source. It’s not politically correct to be Christian and Conservative and allow that to influence your views on homosexuality and the LGBTQ movement, hence Phil Robertson is the devil himself. But if your beliefs don’t stem from that, it’s ok, right? Huh. Makes sense.

It is clear that the standard here is in no way stemming from principles but rather, the arbitrary dictates of those determining popular thought. People need to make up their minds to whom this sort of tolerance they are preaching applies, and to whom it does not.