(July 27, 2020 at 7:26 pm)Huggy Bear Wrote:(July 25, 2020 at 11:45 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Or that systems of oppression tend to encompass several different aspects of people's lives, race and sexual orientation being two of them. It's not like oppressive systems have just one thing they hate and everyone outside that single thing has free rein to do whatever they want. Seriously, how the fuck do I have to be person to explain this to you?
Yes, Hoover was (likely) LGBT. He was also closeted all his life and, because of this, it turns out the issue of his sexuality is actually murky enough that at least one biography claims he was probably asexual. And to drive my point home further, despite his possible homosexuality, helped to champion a purge of homosexuals in the government that ran parallel with the Red Scare, and even had Joe McCarthy spearheading it (surprisingly, the Lavender Scare had even more victims than the Red Scare). The other person apart from McCarthy and Hoover to make this happen? Roy Cohn, who was also in the closet all his life, but whose homosexuality is all but certain.
(August 18, 2016 at 1:59 am)Eleven Wrote: Black people just need to get over themselves. I went there.
Which oppressive system targeted gay people? Slavery? The black codes? Jim Crow? Redlining? Yet bills are being signed that specify LBGT, name any bills that are specific to black people.
Yeah, it’s a darn good thing that there has never been a system that oppressed gay people. Fortunately, there were no laws targeting Alan Turing, or a court system that gave him the choice of prison or chemical castration. He was able to live out his life as a gay man in complete freedom, free from all oppression and social ostracism.
Asshole.
Boru
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