On Sun, 20 May 2007 10:00:20 -0400, [email hidden] (Will Brink)
Quoted message said:In article <[email hidden]>,
Quoted message said:Steve the Geek said:
> Gay people have just been the new whipping boy since psychotic
> fundamentalists and other right wing sick [censored] can't say "[censored]" or
> "[censored]" and have lynchings any more.
Get a sense of history. Gay people have been the 'whipping boy' for
several millennia.
To you and Will Brink I have to laugh--in a good way. Thanks. I wasn't
suggesting that queer folk have not in many cultures and times
throughout history been treated like [censored]. Just that the current
cultural perversions of U.S. culture, particularly in the forms of
white supremacy and christian fundamentalism in its worst aspects,
have turned to us Queer folk. And it is more or less sanctioned in the
media and elsewhere.
I agree with the former, not so sure I agree with the latter. I don't
think it's sanctioned in the media per se.
Yes, I think it is. Nightline, it was recently pointed out, had
Falwell on its show an enormous number of times. Why? So he could spew
his blatant, homophobic bigotry? Who gives a [censored] what that gas bag
thinks (or thought). The media sucks up to all those idiots like their
opinion matters. And with little outcry.
IMAGINE if these guys talked about blacks, Latinos or Jews the same
way (granted, Falwell got a lot of flack for his comment that the
antichrist was a Jew). But the outrage that correctly exists for that
kind of bigotry does NOT exist in the mainstream media when it comes
to queer people.
But then I think the media overall in the Untied States is pretty
abjectly horrible, self-aggrandizing and corporate propaganda driven.
It's hardly just their abject failing around issues of human rights
for lesbians, gays, transgendered individuals.
George M. Carter