Subject: Re: AUT: AGAINST CONSERVATISM--FOR COMMUNISM
From: chris wright <cwright.21stcentury-AT-rcn.com>
Date: 03 Apr 2003 00:50:17 -0600


Nah, Floyce, I would rather focus on the criminalization of
homosexuality by your piece.  This isn't about being PC.  It isn't about
being for or against homosexuality.  It is about linking homosexuality
with child molestation, rape, racist violence, etc., ie with violently
oppressive behaviour.  When strike-breaking law firms use gay-baiting to
smear organizers, it is in no small part by making exactly these kinds
of linkages between homosexuality and "degeneracy", so why should your
comment be treated with less anger?

If you said something equivalently racist or sexist, I suspect I would
be equally justified, as would Peter, Nate, Tom, et al.  And if someone
else said something as crass, would you stop and go "Well, that really
rotten, racist thing you said is just a side bar to your broader, better
politics, so I will ignore it and talk about the other 9400 words."  I
doubt it, but then again...

Chris



On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 00:11, Floyce White wrote:
> OK, Peter, Tom, Nate.  Forget the rest of the article
> that puts my remarks in context--forget the 9400 words
> of body text in this series--and discuss one single
> word.  Fine.  Let's discuss one word.
> 
> What are the various pro-capitalist positions on
> homosexuality?  What is the take of liberal gay-rights
> groups?  How are these positions opportunistically and
> uncritically repeated by socialists?  And while we're
> at it, we can discuss the role of liberal political
> correctness (conformity) that suppresses any other
> take on the issue--especially anything that poses
> workers' revolution as the solution to stigmatization
> and scapegoating.
> 
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