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However, random fishing slapping, while infinitely satisfying, is not especially productive.
Which pretty much sums up what I feel about the game of Oppression Olympics and the unpleasant sniping between oppressed groups at each other.
After the stupid comments made by some massive idiots after the proposition 8 fiasco basically blaming black people (fanned and inflamed by right wingers who just loved it so much) many sensible people turned round and said “that’s racist bullshit, you’re talking through your arse cheeks.” Which was right and proper.
And some people decided that this was indicative of racism in the gay community and the gay community’s leaders (whoever THEY are) and one blogger even decided to quote a piece that LAMBLASTED gay groups for giving black people a “stunning pass” on opposing gay marriage. It was written by Andrew Breitbart - STRAIGHT right winger and contributor to the Drudge Report and guest-host of Michael Savage’s Savage Nation. Yet it was held up as some kind of example of the gay community’s racism? This makes sense how?
And then on the flip side we have a blogger posting about Marion Barry. Marion Barry is a councilman for Washington DC and the only one who voted against recognising same-sex marriages from other states - his reasons being that most of his constituents are black and he says black people just won’t accept gay marriage, are adamant about that and “all hell would break loose” and it would cause “a civil war.” The blogger spoke about homophobia in the black community, and the social conservatism of blacks etc etc.
The sad thing is I am a regular reader of both bloggers and I agree with 99.999999999% of everything they write. But the way they both wrote about this is making me despair.
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Which pretty much sums up what I feel about the game of Oppression Olympics and the unpleasant sniping between oppressed groups at each other.
After the stupid comments made by some massive idiots after the proposition 8 fiasco basically blaming black people (fanned and inflamed by right wingers who just loved it so much) many sensible people turned round and said “that’s racist bullshit, you’re talking through your arse cheeks.” Which was right and proper.
And some people decided that this was indicative of racism in the gay community and the gay community’s leaders (whoever THEY are) and one blogger even decided to quote a piece that LAMBLASTED gay groups for giving black people a “stunning pass” on opposing gay marriage. It was written by Andrew Breitbart - STRAIGHT right winger and contributor to the Drudge Report and guest-host of Michael Savage’s Savage Nation. Yet it was held up as some kind of example of the gay community’s racism? This makes sense how?
And then on the flip side we have a blogger posting about Marion Barry. Marion Barry is a councilman for Washington DC and the only one who voted against recognising same-sex marriages from other states - his reasons being that most of his constituents are black and he says black people just won’t accept gay marriage, are adamant about that and “all hell would break loose” and it would cause “a civil war.” The blogger spoke about homophobia in the black community, and the social conservatism of blacks etc etc.
The sad thing is I am a regular reader of both bloggers and I agree with 99.999999999% of everything they write. But the way they both wrote about this is making me despair.
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