Just a reminder to people upset at this week in the United States:

[xiphias]

Remember: moving to Canada will not help you get away from gay marriage.

Or, for that matter, socialized medicine.

Comments

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

I am sometimes startled by my blind spots.

In this case, because it never occurred to me to think of same-sex marriage as something to "get away from".

--You may have seen a map that was shown around a few years back, showing the States that didn't allow same-sex marriage, those that did allow marriage between first cousins, and which ones had both. Being who I am, I immediately checked for the converse situation: States which did allow same-sex marriage, but no marriage between first cousins... which would also apply to same-sex couples.

Turned out to be nearly all the States that allowed same-sex marriage.

This kind of thing is why I am merely startled by my blind spots, rather than embarrassed. By the time the Silliness Police get through the mob ahead of me in line, I will surely be decades in the ground.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Sure, most of the United States allows cousin marriage in some form; my Great Commonwealth allows first cousin marriage unrestricted, and we were the first to allow gay marriage.
It's frowned upon and very rare in the US; it's much more common elsewhere in the world, especially among families that want to maintain their wealth without dilution.

[ellettra.livejournal.com]

Heh heh heh

[navrins]

I started typing into google, "countries where " and it immediately guessed where I was going with that. It didn't know if I wanted "legal" or "illegal," but still.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Isn't that in the nature of blind spots?

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

They could try Uganda.

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

Oh crap, we're on the same side here.

[thebig41.livejournal.com]

I thought Canada legalized gay marriage like 10 years ago. I could be wrong but that is what I thought.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

You are correct. Hence why moving to Canada won't get you away from it.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

Not that I don't love making fun of bigots, but I suspect one of two slightly less silly things is happening:

1) "I'm moving to Canada" has become a metaphorical phrase in American English, expressing displeasure but no real intent.

2) Conservatives who do this are making fun of liberals who do this

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

...touchpads are very eager to post incomplete comments. Thanks, Obama!

2) Conservatives who do this are making fun of liberals who do this, and who in the years since the 60s have tended, in fact, to not follow up by moving to Canada.

Although I kind of hope some of them really are being idiots, and put their reasons for attempted immigration on their applications.

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

My gut feeling is that if a family wants to retain its wealth they should arrange marriages with smart people, rather than leave it to descendants with costly recessive ailments.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

May have been an incomplete comment, but it was nonetheless a complete thought. :)

I suspect you're right, and I'd suspect that #1 is the largest component. Still, it's always fun when an established metaphor has an opposite effect upon its literal reading.