Gay Bars Make 'Tolerant' Neighbors
The specter of enforced "tolerance" rears its ugly head in Spokane, Wash., where homosexual groups are pushing the traditionally conservative city to create a special "gay district":
A gay district would signal that Spokane is tolerant and progressive, proponents contend, the type of community that can attract the so-called "creative class" that will build the economy of tomorrow.
Needless to say, if you are opposed to creating a special part of town for people who need people who practice anal sex, you are an Uptight White Person. At least, according to "Bonnie Aspen, a business owner who arrived with her partner two years ago to escape the congestion of the San Francisco Bay area":Spokane is some 90 percent white and a gay district will promote the notion that such a community can still be tolerant and have diversity, Aspen said.
So that's it. People who happen to live in a 90 percent white town in the Pacific Northwest have some serious tolerance issues to work out. They can either make an extra special effort to make the other 10 percent feel included—or they can just agree to let developers set a part of their town aside for homosexuals.
Heck, if creating a "gay district" is tolerant, why not just section off the entire darn city according to ethnic, social, religious, and sexual groups? And we could give each group its own insignia, so that no one would be caught in the wrong neighborhood. With my heritage, I'd wear a star, of course, and the homosexuals could wear those cute little pink triangles.TRACKBACK: Dustbury's Charles writes in "They're here, we're used to them":
What bothers me about this is not so much that there would be a gay district in Spokane — we have one in Oklahoma City, fairly diffuse but centered not far from me, that bothers me not at all — but that they think it can be imposed from without. It can't. (The last time American cities made an effort to create separate neighborhoods, the symbol was not a rainbow, but a large black bird.)
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