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• Friday, April 13, 2007 10:10 AM

  Chill out, y'all.

  Well, I'm with you on this one, Joan.

  It still surprises me that people get so angry whenever somebody tries to encourage civil conversation on the web. To the other posters: this piece on Imus and Kos is not an invitation to fume about, e.g., Joan Walsh's "anti-Catholic" prejudice. Can we just agree that misogyny and homophobia are bad before we start furiously pointing fingers at each other? (You'll have to forgive me, by the way, if I'm unimpressed by comparisons between the web's ubiquitous homophobia and racism and Joan's supposed "anti-Catholicism" and "man-hating." For real, aggrieved Catholics: you're able to repeat, endlessly, that I'm a perverted sinner who's doomed to burn in Hell -- and to spend millions of dollars lobbying, internationally, against my right to marry and adopt -- but it's disrespectful and bigoted for me to defend the freedom of artists to display mildly subversive pieces like that chocolate Jesus?)

  Anyway: I'm fed up with the "backlash" against political correctness; in this case, the cure is worse than the disease. The gay jokes and scary misogynistic remarks and racist innuendoes -- and false equivalencies (homophobia/racism = anti-Catholicism) -- are like a toxin that builds up in the air; it's time to open the window.

  —My Man Godfrey Read My Man Godfrey's other letters
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