I love small town values...

[acroyear]

Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Daily Show on "Small Town Values":

As I said last week, perhaps the most irritating thing about the RNC was the repetitive bullshit about "small town values" being blathered about endlessly. As if everyone in small towns had the same values? Ask a kid growing up gay in many small towns around the country how wonderful those "small town values" are. Some of the most heinous crimes of racial hatred were perpetrated in small towns, for crying out loud. Yes, Sarah Palin, we do "grow good people in our small towns." We also grow bad people in our small towns. Being from a small town doesn't have a damn thing to do with whether one is a good person or a bad person. And it is rank stupidity and demagoguery to pretend otherwise.

Link is followed by a video of that crack investigative reporting team from The Daily Show on just this topic...

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[fiona64.livejournal.com]

That Daily Show video had me to the point where I didn't know whether I should laugh or cry.

I grew up in a small town. I can assure that I wanted nothing more than to get the hell *out* of it because of the parochial and horrific attitudes there. My best friend from high school is a gay man who was closeted for a long time (we even dated for a time) ... and he doesn't have much use for small town attitudes either.