I come to bury Rod Dreher, not to praise him

Creepy Crunchy Con Rod Dreher and his lust for primitive root wieners (if he's repressing, he's lusting) are leaving (except for guest columns) The American Conservative. Here's his last regular column.

Dreher is someone of my acquaintance — in person as well as online, having met him once about 20 years ago — for some time. (That was when he was still at the Snooze and violating op-ed policy by writing for money for other outlets until I informed them after seeing it. Already then, Rod had a dubious ethical standard.)

And, with that, let's load up some of my Dreher highlights from the past! Not all of them are about teh gay, but some certainly are.

One of the oldest, and kind of sort of funny, was him calling CPAC "white kids on dope." More true today than in 2009, looking at how it's been captured by Trumpkins.

As far as pure odious, non-gay (overall) division, there was his "praying for Hitchens." (And looking back at that link, was late friend-of-sorts Chuck Bloom a fanboi of Rod's, as far as him being the one to inform Rod that Snitchens had terminal cancer and for Rod to call Chuck out by name?)

Then, there was his odiousness, racist division, as an apologist for Paula Deen.

And, even without Rod thinking he was too kind to teh gay, of course he would hate on Pope Francis. 

There was his hating on the underclass about wanting to be a gatekeeper on recreational marijuana. (He wasn't alone there; big time pot-legalization guru Mark Kleiman felt the same. And, he had the academic background to know better.)

There was his backdoor semi-anti-Semitic odiousness on his take on the Covington Catholic kerfuffle.

But, in the end, with Rod, it was always about teh gay. And, per the Vanity Fair piece, his one and sole financier of his writings at The American Conservative cut off the money when Rod's musings got too graphic on too regular of a basis. Per his last post, where he writes about seeing his first uncircumcised penis (Black kid, of course, with Rod perpetuating "hung Black" stereotypes, too, natch), which he calls the "primitive root wiener," imagine how shocked he would be at uncircumcised gay cock. And, per the Black angle, there's the background issue of it being revealed a year ago that Rod's dad was a Klansman. Rod, in talking about it at TAC, said he fought back and forth with his dad about it, but ... how much did he pick up implicit bias? I mean, look at the Paula Deen stuff.

And, per the commenters on Twitter about the last piece, how he talks about losing a marriage among his losses of the last decade, but doesn't mention his wife by name? Having heard the basics of the divorce already ... it's sad.

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Ohh, add in that Dreher's in voluntary exile in a country with a presumable president for life who spies on journalist cellphones.

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Final sidebar: If Dreher's not repressing being gay, the other serious possibility? He's repressing some child sexual abuse, and I"m not joking about that.