elfs | A tax on tanning booths is racist!

Does it get any more hysterical than this? Glenn Beck is on vacation this week, but his fill-in host, "Doc" Thompson, has successfully brought the crazy:

The health care bill the president just signed into law includes a 10 percent tax on all indoor tanning sessions starting July 1st, and I say, who uses tanning? Is it dark-skinned people? I don't think so. I would guess that most tanning sessions are from light-skinned Americans. Why would the President of the United States of America -- a man who says he understands racism, a man who has been confronted with racism -- why would he sign such a racist law? Why would he agree to do that? Well now I feel the pain of racism.

Sorry, Doc, but just as the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich and the poor from sleeping under bridges, so too it taxes the light-skinned and the dark-skinned equally while they sleep under tanning lights.

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kistha.livejournal.com

Or your religion, or your sexual preference, or your gender.....

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caraig.livejournal.com

This as well. I apologize; I made an unwarranted assumption. As I said I let my RAAAAAGE(tm) run away with me, always a foolish thing to do on the internet. :(

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http://users.livejournal.com/_candide_/

Don't get too apologetic,

cariag. Being Jewish at one time in American history (and in some places, still) makes you equivalent to a "n*****" in the minds of the bigots. So does being Muslim now. Being an immigrant always has, so nothing new there.

And now, so does being LGBT. Especially since the fall of communism, when the Fundies redirected all of their foaming at the mouth at gay men and trans-folk, followed by lesbians (who, to them, must all practice witchcraft). Bisexuals were tossed in during the mid-1990's as an afterthought.

And yes, though I masked that particular odious word, I went there. Because it's very much the truth. America, for all its talk of equality, seems to need some group or groups that it can classify as Sub-Human and attack.