MTV Brainwashes the Teenagers
Media Monitor | By Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid | January 26, 2001
It appears that those who want to prosecute so-called hate crimes do not really want to punish them.
It was a bad night for television on January 10th. Fox aired "Temptation Island," celebrating sexual promiscuity, and MTV aired "Anatomy of a Hate Crime," depicting homosexuals as innocent victims of murderous white males. Then, the network solicited support for Senator Ted Kennedy's federal hate crimes bill.
On the air and on the MTV web site, viewers were asked to send letters to President Bush and Vice President Cheney and Congress urging passage of the so-called "Hate Crimes Prevention Act." Under such an approach, the Boy Scouts could be considered purveyors of "hate" because they do not permit homosexuals to be members or Scout masters.
The show, "Anatomy of a Hate Crime," was about the murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard. He has become a household word because of the efforts of the homosexual community to make him into a martyr for their cause. There is some confusion and dispute about what led to his murder. A lawyer for one of the killers claimed Shepard came on to the men at a bar, triggering a violent response. But the movie says he was singled out because he was a homosexual and that he was just minding his own business. His killers were portrayed as two white thugs fascinated with guns and drugs who made frequent disparaging remarks about homosexuals.
The Washington Post thought the movie was great, and hailed MTV for having a "conscience." However, the paper noted that the film may have been atonement for having aired videos by rap artist Eminem which include epithets about homosexuals. Whatever the motivation, the Post acknowledged that the film ignored the issue of whether Shepard had the virus that causes AIDS. This was ignored apparently because it might conflict with the notion of homosexuality as a lifestyle that should be tolerated or even celebrated. Shepard himself was depicted as a heavy drinker who was on anti-depressant medication, but there was no hint that this stemmed from his sexual identity. He was involved with a "gay student union" on his college campus that made him feel at home.
After the film, MTV aired more pro-homosexual propaganda, including an interview with a spokesman for GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. This is an organization that promotes the gay lifestyle to high school students. At its national conference last October, it distributed a "Gay and Lesbian Visitor's Companion" with ads for sex clubs and sadistic "leather" bars. GLSEN also promotes homosexual tolerance lessons for elementary school classrooms and workshops about bisexuality and transsexuality. At the same time, GLSEN is urging schools to expel the Boy Scouts of America because they are supposed to be a negative influence on impressionable kids.
For all the preaching about hate crimes, the two killers of Shephard only got sentences of life in prison. That should have led to an extended discussion of why crimes of murder, motivated by hate or anything else, ought to deserve the death penalty. But that would have violated another tenet of political correctness - that capital punishment is cruel and unusual punishment. It appears that those who want to prosecute so-called hate crimes do not really want to punish them.
Reed Irvine is the former Chairman of Accuracy In Media and Cliff Kincaid is the Editor of the AIM Report.
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