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RE: That Gay Thread
August 10, 2020 at 3:48 pm
That's kind of the big thing with identity politics: when applied properly (read: when you're not looking for an excuse to be the sort of oppressive asshole that we rightly revile the white supremacist power structure for being), it can be a beautiful thing, letting the people in on a whole new culture, and maybe give you enough parallels between different types of oppression that one group can empathise with another's pain, which could hopefully lead to solidarity and another group of allies to help create something new.
And then, we get some people who are only in it for their own sake (or their own particular Volk), rejecting common ground, insisting that their pain, their history, and their oppressions are the only ones that matter, not breaking down barriers, but seeking to reinforce them, hopefully with themselves on top. And, in the end, nothing is accomplished. Or, if anything is, it'll boil down to this:
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RE: That Gay Thread
August 10, 2020 at 3:58 pm
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RE: That Gay Thread
August 12, 2020 at 4:23 pm
(August 12, 2020 at 10:50 am)Eleven Wrote: Gays say YAY to Kamala
After the election, I hope she’s tasked with pushing a UN resolution making sure that gay people get their own public restrooms. I mean, if I go to a public toilet after a gay person, what’s to prevent me from catching the Gay Germ?
Seriously, I make one wrong pit stop and the next thing you know, I’m living in Rodger’s tastefully decorated art nouveau flat in the posher section of Christchurch with African masks on the walls, a salt-water fish tank, and a cat called ‘Cleo’.
Keeps me awake, thoughts like that.
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