To be fair, if I use that criterion, which allowed me to enjoy the snowboard cross, the criteria which includes such sports as football, basketball, even motocross, I have to include figure skating. Acknowledging that the estrogen-fest that was the men’s figure skating short program is a sport is difficult. But hell, just like pro-wrestling it even includes death threats, but unlike the phony rigged acting of professional wrestling, the threats made in men’s figure skating were real and credible. Part of what makes accepting men’s figure skating as a sport revolting is my personal bias; I find flaming effeminate men disturbing and revolting. Johnny Weir typifies this type of person.
The fact is, Johnny Weir is a free man, and has the same liberties as the rest of us. As much as his appearance, actions, manners and speech offend me, none of them restrict or infringe upon my rights. I don’t have a right not to be offended. There are some, who because of Weirs dress and speech have threatened his life. He has had to remain in the secure Olympic campus for his own safety. No it is not a bunch of butch homophobes in flannel shirts trying to string up the flaming fruitcake persona of Johnny Weir, it’s leftist radicals, who want to determine control the free choices he and everyone else can make. The heinous “crime” which warrants Weir’s death is that he wore a piece of fox fur on his costume, and didn’t capitulate to the PETA crowd, saying the right things. To quote Johnny Weir, he “Loves Wearing Dead Animals,” and calls animal rights activists “Crazy Fur People”. I don’t know if I’ll ever live down the shame o f using, and agreeing with quotes from such a sissy. Unlike libertarians, PETA and the extremists it attracts typify the left. If you can’t persuade people to do what you want them to do, if you can’t elect representatives to make the law you want, then use force. They don’t use violence in their own self defense, but to force their beliefs on others. This is morally corrupt. Weir hasn’t proposed or promoted anything illegal, or anything that infringes upon the rights of another. Because he enjoys what the left finds as offensive, they are willing to force him to change his behavior.
Johnny Weir, like everybody should be free to express himself as he wishes and not to be threatened with violence for those expressions. Because leftist extremist groups like PETA have a history of using violence, Weir changed his behavior. Why is it that the left, statists in general, think that they should have the right to force others to live the way they think is best? Johnny Weir is and should remain at liberty to act how he wants, so long as his expression does not infringe on the rights of another. Although I find him disturbing, and will avoid any product or company who choose to use him as a spokesperson, I would and do defend his right to express himself as he sees fit.
Why can’t the liberals do the same? Not only will they not defend the right of others to express their ideas, they work at silencing others who express different ideas. When their ideas fail because the people reject them yet they are more than willing to use force, to make people accept them. Consider talk radio; conservative idea’s and spokesmen sell commercials (Rush, Beck, etc); to a lesser extent libertarian ideas and spokesmen sell commercials (Boortz, Savage, etc). Conservative and Libertarian ideas sell because people freely choose to listen to those ideas. Liberal ideas don’t sell commercials; Air America went bankrupt, as when people are given a free choice, they choose not to listen to them. The only place liberal radio is alive is at NPR, which is paid for by tax dollars, and where liberal ideas don’t have to compete. Unlike conservative or libertarian talk radio, NPR doesn’t take callers and doesn’t try to argue their points, it dictates a view, it doesn’t defend a view. When liberal ideas are given freedom, and have to compete, they are rejected. This is why the left is trying to re-instate the “fairness” doctrine, and use the force of government to make people hear and accept their ideas.
Maybe this is why so many liberals hate competition; competition is so un-fair, because with competition there is always a winner and a loser. The politically correct view of the Olympics is that it is a platform to teach respect for self and others; fair play; excellence; joy in effort; and balance of body, mind, and will. That is crap, look at the NBC coverage, and you’ll see it’s about winning, losing, competition, and the worlds thirst to attempt to be the best. The medal counts we watch every day to see who is best, in a fair even handed competition, with the same rules applied to everybody. We reward those who excel, acknowledge those who try, and ignore those who don’t compete. The left isn’t willing to have the same rules for everybody, because there will be winners and losers, and those who don’t compete will be left behind. Ask why your school no longer has dodge ball or a valedictorian.
Why does it take street gang methods to implement liberal ideas? Johnny Weir didn’t take the fur off his costume because he was convinced by the competing idea that people shouldn’t use animal furs. He did so because he didn’t want his Olympic performance tainted by extremists throwing blood on the ice, and because he feared for his well being. The PETA crowd made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. Liberals like street gangs work on the principle of eliminating completion, allowing people to freely choose over competing ideas is not a consideration. Liberty is being free to compete fairly for the rewards offered by your fellow man. In the competition for ideas Johnny Weir’s liberty was never a consideration.
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