10%ers, Exponential Growth, and the "coming out" process OR Is 9/11 Truth the New Gay?
I know the title sounds queer--not that there's anything wrong with sounding queer, mind you--but think about it. We're often told we are guilty as truthers of inflating our numbers. Well suppose the relatively conservative Scripps Howard/Ohio Univeristy poll that found (whether it is dsinfo or not) 36% or so Americans doubting the official story is a gross overestimate and the real figure was closer to ten percent.
That would make truthing on par with homosexuality -- 10% of the population in other words who are "out" to some people and not to others, and others who are out to everyone. The difference is that the 90% believers in the OCT will actually appear to each other to be spreading a communicable disease and witch hunts could ensue.
Anyway in the case of gay activism, the meaning of pride is to be proud and open about what you are--i.e. don't be ashamed or frightened--tell the world!
Should we as truthers not be publicizing a campaign for some kind of national coming out day? Like, I dunno, in early September when everyone is just settling down to work after a summer's worth of hollywood flicks? You don't launch a new product at the end of August after all!
It would be a national coming out day for skeptics of the official story. Basically we have demos in public everywhere calling for people to come out of the closet as truthers. Hey, we know gay people at least will naturally be drawn to the message, and the chatter will begin all over as people resolve to put that first pin on their backpack or bumper sticker on their car after seeing other people with them.
Anyway...
have YOU made PROPAGANDA today? go do it ! ! then catapult it somewhere!
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I think your idea has merit
and I would love to know where we stand, demographically, right now. I just wanted to go offline, so I'll close by saying: Yes, I catapulted the propaganda when I serendipitously met some G8 protesters in the city today. And I did with pride^^
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This meme is FABULOUS.
I think being "out" is the most powerful tool for social change available to the individual, and we have the Gay Liberation movement to thank. Moreover, the parallel can be extended: right now, the truth movement's impulse toward visibility is being channeled toward the 11th of the month actions, which, I am deeply pained to say, are not working out the way I had in mind back when it was just an idea being kicked around at 911blogger. What we're seeing, I argue, is the equivalent of the annual Gay Pride parade, complete with the dude in the lime green g-string (see Dan Savage's Skipping Towards Gomorrah for reference)when what we need is to be the gay guys who just bought the house across the street (ie, a daily, normalized, out presence.)
correctomundo!
I don't think we should be flaunting our truthiness in any flamboyant way, just getting out in public and being seen as normal folk. Sure, there will always be those who crave the limelight like "John Conner" aka "Mark Dice") and who will no doubt encourage a few truthers to stay closeted for fear of being associated with nimrods like him, but that just means we have to work extra hard at NORMALIZING and SOCIALIZING the truth movement!
i'm not a gay truther
and i'm surely not the dude who just bought a house in your neighborhood, but i think my brother is...he'll be here next week, brilliant man that he is. i first told him of this madness last year this same time/season. i feel he's definitely coming around. it'll be good to have another lawyer on our side...not that there's anything wrong with that.
no no, we all love a lawyer
even if it's just the one in the family. FYI my post had nothing to do with gay truthers per se (though the more of them the merrier of course) but with how we should learn from their personal and collective struggle with what is for many of them an inconvenient and awkward truth that often marginalizes them but that they have been fairly successful in normalizing in the eyes of society...