http://www.popehat.com/2007/11/07/first-cast-the-cheeto-out-of-thine-own-eye/ A Group Complaint about Law, Liberty, and Leisure Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:16:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.popehat.com/2007/11/07/first-cast-the-cheeto-out-of-thine-own-eye/comment-page-1/#comment-89 Ken Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:10:35 +0000 http://www.newpopehat.dreamhosters.com/?p=91#comment-89 By the way, the ABC News story raises interesting questions that I don't address in the gotcha post above. <a href="http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/2007/11/post_514.html#trackback" rel="nofollow">Classical Values</a> has a thoughtful discussion of it that compares the practice to Borat's comedy. I'm not sure I agree, but it's worth reading. The question I posed there: can one really say that this sort of thing is "manufacturing" intolerance? Imagine that the ABC News reporters simply went to the same observers on the same street, and instead of putting on the gay PDA street theatre, simply asked people on camera how they would feel about gays kissing in public. Would that be "provoking" or manufacturing a reaction? If not, why not? Is the distinction that people know in one instance that their reaction is on camera, but not in the other instance? By the way, the ABC News story raises interesting questions that I don’t address in the gotcha post above. Classical Values has a thoughtful discussion of it that compares the practice to Borat’s comedy. I’m not sure I agree, but it’s worth reading. The question I posed there: can one really say that this sort of thing is “manufacturing” intolerance? Imagine that the ABC News reporters simply went to the same observers on the same street, and instead of putting on the gay PDA street theatre, simply asked people on camera how they would feel about gays kissing in public. Would that be “provoking” or manufacturing a reaction? If not, why not? Is the distinction that people know in one instance that their reaction is on camera, but not in the other instance?

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