These
sentiments, common
place in the homosexual
rights movement, could easily have
been those of slaveholders and those involved
in the slave trade, and as such they would strike us as ludicrous.
But here, too, the traditionalist
is placed in a bind, for Macklemore has captured and co-opted the image and
sentiments associated with justice, kindness, fairness, progress, equality, love, patience, kindness, care for the individual person, and human
rights, while the tradition gets linked to poison, hatred, bigotry, discrimination, inequality, violence, and war.