If I thought there was something I could really do that would help I’d do it. Wearing a green polo shirt on the other side of the world isn’t going to do anything. Well, anything other than mark me as the same kind of jackass that thinks slapping a “Support Our Troops” bumper sticker on my SUV does anything to support the troops.
Our own users Addison:
Solidarity gets cheapened when it's done so superficially, so painlessly, and towards no actual effect at all.
And Chaboard:
Reminds me Of dumb purple thumbed congressmen
John Cole has more here. And Atrios too.
Don't misunderstand, there's nothing wrong with displays of solidarity, but I find much of the chest thumping to be akin to a McCainiac worldview. It's always about us, and if only we show enough will to do an undefined something, then the ponies will appear. It isn't about us, there's little we can actually do, and the things we are tempted to do because we imagine we Must Do Something will be catastrophically counterproductive.
And no, the BBC has NOT gone green.
(Funny how this is starting to look like the "debates" over wearing flag pins, huh?)
[Fundraiser] "organizers, I'm told, are scrambling to get visible White House action on gay issues in advance of the June 25 dinner to prevent it from becoming a protest stage." Well, if the White House can lift the ban, repeal DOMA, pass ENDA, fire the lawyer who wrote the homophobic brief, and publicly apologize for comparing us to child molesters, all by next week, more power to them. But hate crimes and federal employee benefits will no longer cut it after the incest and peodphilia crap of last week.
Pam Spaulding has a list of many of the big-dollar gay donors attending the fundraiser. Three have dropped out. The rest should as well.
Oh, and President McCain speaks.