"There's no time," the Director said, "that I can see any assimilation of Gehenna into Alliance ... without the inclusion of humans who think at an angle. You can tape them. You can try to change them. If you don't understand what they are now, how do you understand them when they've come another hundred years, another two hundred on the same course?"
- Forty Thousand in Gehenna, C. J. Cherryh
So one of McCain's bloggers called potential Obama voters the D&D set living in their mother's basements, which was, y'know, standard and laughable.
I didn't notice the dog-whistle. WordWeaverLynn at livejournal did, and decodes it for the rest of us.
(Corrected 'McCain' to 'minion'.)
"Dw3t-Hthr" (Duat-Hether) is a title of various female temple officials in ancient Egypt. It means "Worshipper of Hathor" or "Adorer of Hathor".
For you and me, we hold these truths to be self-evident
For you and me, we'd elect each other president
For you and me
We might agree
But that's just us...
Reaching for the alien shore...
-- Rush, "Alien Shore"
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The "funny" thing to me is just how much those evangelical anti-D&D links sound like what we've of late been calling "radfems."
Be careful what you let into your mind, indeed!
Wow.
Wouldn't it be nice if this election was being contested between two groups of rational people?
John McCain actually said nothing of the sort. One of his bloggers -- a fellow named Michael Goldfarb -- did.
Accurate link to the blogger is here: at johnmccain.com.
Just wanted to be sure you knew the actual source.
Woop, thanks. Fixed.
Hello!
Hurrah for good ol' American anti-intellectualism! (I realise that we here in the UK are just as bad, don't worry)
'Cause, you know, this thing about geeks... kind of a defining characteristic... they tend to be quite bright.
Why would you be CLEVER and pretend to be an ELF in a BASEMENT - that's just silly, when you can drop napalm on civilians instead.
*pokes head out of basement and blinks in the unfamiliar light*
Actually, the world is on backwards. I'll get back to my elf if nobody minds.
You know, I wouldn't have picked up on the dog whistle either, but I think her post is right on. I remember hearing horror tales in evangelical circles as a kid about people who became "possessed by demons" after "getting involved with" D&D. Unless the statement had currency with a specific contingent of his base, I can't see why McCain would ever have mentioned D&D. He's trying to play to the fundies without quite *being* one of them. "The One" ad was understood by nearly everyone who has ever come into contact with dominionist rhetoric, but this comment is a bit more subtle.
I don't know if you've seen the "I love your blog!" nominations going around yet, but you're one of mine. (Even if I rarely comment over here, you always get me thinking.) There's more information on my blog, over here.
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