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Gay, Jewish, and Pissed-Off: A Manifesto (Part I)
1. Just because something has emerged from western culture doesn’t mean that it’s “bad” or “evil” or even must necessarily be questioned, when something from non-western cultures would not be.
Recently, the people in Sudan who were indicted on charges of genocide charged that the ICC was a “racist” organization because it was formed by Western nations. Besides the fact that such allegations are bullshit (23 or so African countries participated in its formation), it shouldn’t matter whether that organization was formed by “western” countries or not. If you have problems with its principles then level an attack against those principles. Just because you happen not to like the fact that white people formed it doesn’t mean that it’s an illegitimate organization — it just means you’re racist.
Which brings me to my next point.
2. Not all white people are racist; not all black people are free from bigotry. This may come as newsflash to some people on the left, but not all non-white people shit ice-cream — and not all white people are evil oppressors. In case you didn’t notice, there were numerous white people who participated in the Civil Rights movement. In fact, if it hadn’t been for white people, African Americans likely still wouldn’t have any rights today. The next time someone calls me a racist because I’m white or don’t happen to support race-based affirmative action, remember that.
And as for black people somehow magically being free from racism — has anyone heard of the Nation of Islam. They believe that white people are all incarnations of the devil or some shit. Now if a bunch of white people ran around claiming that black people were the devil or something, they’d be shut down in like a week as fucking asshats. But no, instead, people like the Nation of Islam attract all kinds of white apologists who attempt to justify their racism, as if “oh, well, it doesn’t count because they were oppressed.”
Or, moving away from racism, doesn’t anyone else want to talk about Prop 8? I mean, sure a lot of it has to do with education, but it doesn’t matter how you analyze it — black people were bigots against queer people. The fact that they were uneducated doesn’t excuse it, it just demonstrates the need to reform the educational system. I don’t recall anyone excusing actions by the KKK by just saying that they’re “uneducated” — how are the actions by Black Churches Any different?
Also, just because I think your music sucks doesn’t mean I’m racist. It just means your music sucks.
3. Not all black people suffer from horrible, horrible oppression. Newsflash, people: not all black people have been called names, beaten, or lynched or even been around or near those things. In fact, there are quite a few of them who are doing quite well for themselves. This is why Affirmative Action is bullshit — or at least race-based affirmative action: there are rich-off-their-asses African-Americans who are getting into universities or who are getting jobs over equally-qualified white poor people. Do I think that white people should get jobs just by virtue of being white? No. But I do think that the fact that someone is poor means that they had to try harder in order to succeed on an equal level. If you’re rich and black, the fact of the matter is that you probably had just as many — if not more — opportunities as someone who is rich and white. But if you’re poor and white, you’ve probably had far fewer opportunities than someone who’s rich and white.
The way the educational system is set up is biased against the poor. Since it’s locally funded, and people frequently live segregated by class, poor school districts frequently face the choice of having less funding or taxing those who can least afford it even more. So while in Trenton, for example, schools are falling apart and the school can barely afford to pay its teachers, the next district over is buying new computers every year or two.
My point here is this: race and class are strongly correlated. But the oppression that is frequently faced by poor African-Americans is also faced by poor whites and poor latinos. Why should wealthy blacks get a foot up over poor whites?
4. Jewish people aren’t white. What’s fun is that for the past two-thousand years, white people — and brown people, and yellow people, and, just, well, everyone (but mostly white people) — have been trying to wipe us (i.e. Jews) off the face of the Earth.
Then, suddenly, after a last big push (i.e. the Holocaust), suddenly Jews are white. Thanks guys. I like how we became white just in time for affirmative action to be put into place. That’s awesome.
You know what college interviews were implemented right? To weed out the Jews and the gays. Then as soon as they were done with that and started to try to encourage non-whites to apply, all of a sudden OH WOW YEAH YOU JEWS HAVEN’T BEEN OPPRESSED AT ALL WELCOME TO THE CLUB. LET’S JUST IGNORE THE PAST 2000 YEARS OF US TRYING TO KILL YOU, AWESOME.
5. There are certain things that are always bad. Just because non-white, non-male, non-straight, or non-”oppressive class” people perpetrate them doesn’t make those things okay. Things such as the Haitian genocide of former slaveowners and their families is abhorrent. There is a line to be drawn between punishment for crimes and unnecessary retribution; and, further, between justified retribution and wholesale slaughter of innocents.
6. All-women’s colleges are sexist; all-black colleges are racist. No. Really. I’m really scratching my head about this one. How much did the left bitch about the fact that “oh, wah, wah, wah, all these schools are men-only, and wah wah wah we have to go to these separate schools.” Okay, so, instead, the deal is that not only can men not go to your special schools, but you also get to go to what used to be male-only schools?
And as for all-black colleges…well, wasn’t there something called the Civil Rights movement that was all about segregation? And then wasn’t there another case called Brown v. Board of Education which said that separate was necessarily unequal. So what’s the deal?
You want to have your cake and eat it too? Why can’t I go to Barnard if I want to? The fact of the matter is that it is better. But I can’t go there? Why? Because I have a penis. OMG I GUESS IM THREATENIN UR RITES OMGOMGOMG.
Assholes.
7. I can still be on the ‘left’ and believe this. Sorry, people, but just because I don’t subscribe to your bullshit identity politics doesn’t mean that you can call up the Leftist Pope and excommunicate me from the Green Party or SDS or whatever. I’m not sure where along the line the Green Party/Socialist Party/the left in general decided to sign a suicide pact by advocating entirely untenable things that are totally unrelated to economics or economic justice (I’m sorry, but what’s the deal with spelling “women” incorrectly? It’s not “womyn”. It’s women.), but I’m pretty damn sure my name wasn’t on that document.
Continued in Part II
Why Your Professor Supports Gay Marriage (and Other Revelations)
This originally appeared in the Commentariat, Columbia Spectator’s opinion blog.
In one of my previous posts, I asserted that professors and the highly-educated were liberal because progressive ideas were inherently better, and vice-versa. Clearly, as some have pointed out, this is, to a degree, complete nonsense for a variety of reasons. In fact, one of the problems I should point out with the studies that I cited is that they do not distinguish between social liberalism and economic liberalism. I would venture to say that, while many Columbia students are fairly economically liberal (that is, they believe in economic regulation, the New Deal, and so on to varying degrees), you’d be pretty hard-pressed to find a Huckabee supporter.
Anyway it’s time for an actual explanation of why professors are so liberal, part one.
The Republican-Democratic divide requires a closer look.
Columbia University Professor of statistics Gelman wrote an article (which he later turned into a book) in which he addresses this issue. He writes that:
income matters more in “red America” than in “blue America.” In poor states, rich people are much more likely than poor people to vote for the Republican presidential candidate, but in rich states (such as Connecticut), income has a very low correlation with vote preference.
In other words, wealthy people in blue states are likely to vote Democratic while their counterparts in Republican states are likely to vote Republican. The explanation for this is that:
“Fair and Balanced” indeed.
In one of FoxNews.com’s latest columns, Greg Gutfield demonstrates a remarkable ability to be a gigantic assclown. I’ll quote some of the most offensive sections:
Any moron who remembers Eddy Murphy’s stand-up routine knows that blacks haven’t always warmed to gay causes. They probably also don’t enjoy comparisons between their civil rights struggle and gays not being allowed to marry. Yeah, I know gays have been treated like crap over the years, but they were never slaves, unless it was requested on Craigslist
I’m not arguing that gay people have been more oppressed in the United States than blacks have (though internationally is another matter), but this paragraph was nonetheless pretty offensive.
Furthermore, while this guy wonders why gay people have been “venting their rage at white churches, but oddly, not the black ones,” he totally ignores the possibility that there might be gay black people.
He then goes on to say:
And remember, it was David Geffen who helped picked Obama and it was Obama’s main supporters who voted for Prop 8. So blame Geffen, not the Mormons.
Why shouldn’t I blame the Mormons? These are the same people who didn’t believe that black people have souls until 1978. More topical, these are the people who donated 22.8 million dollars to Yes on Prop 8. They mobilized their members to travel to California to campaign against it. They had statements made in every single one of their churches. So why shouldn’t I be pissed at them?
Did the minority votes put the yes on prop 8 vote over the top? Yes, they did. But if it hadn’t been for the rampant douchebaggery perpetrated by the Mormon Church, they — and millions of older white voters — wouldn’t have been duped into voting in favor of it.
Hilarious Article on Prop 8
An artist's depiction of the battle against marriage in California.
For all of my blustering and fury regarding prop 8, I think that one of the best-written, most passionate pieces about it was one I found from a search for “Fuck Prop 8” on Google. It’s entitled Fuck Proposition 8. Here are a few choices quotes:
Needless to say, I am majorly confused right now about why people are so up in arms about gay marriage and in favor of this whole Proposition 8 bullshit ballot in California. The Religious Right claims to be against the “gay agenda.” But how is it an “agenda” if all you want is equal rights?
And:
So as you might guess, I haven’t told my family that I’m a huge bottomy fag, and I probably never will. It’s so hard knowing that I have to live two lives—one where I’m a gay, and one where I’m not. It hurts that I can’t bring my boyfriend home on the holidays and be like, “This is the guy I’m in love with.” It sucks that people think that my wish to get married or whatever is akin to bestiality.
And finally, my favorite:
I think it’s hilarious that gay people scare the hell out of the Religious Right. But what’s even funnier is that if this ballot measure passes, all the gays of California will be angry as hell. All the queeny hairdressers and dykon mechanics should go on strike.
Then what?
Yes We Can; But So Could They
This about summarizes how I, as a religious person, feel about the whole gay thing. Click the image for a larger version.
This piece ran in the Commentariat, the Spectator opinion blog.
Last night, when I found out Barack Obama had won, I was ecstatic. I ran out of my dorm with my friends and we, and probably 200 other Columbia students, marched up to Harlem to watch the last few minutes of Obama’s speech.
But when I got back to my computer and television, I was horribly disappointed. The ban on gay marriage in Florida had passed, the ban on gay marriage in Arizona had passed, the ban on gay marriage in California had passed, and the ban on gay adoption in Arkansas had passed. Al Franken looked like he was going to lose to Norm Coleman, and convicted felon Ted Stevens was ahead by three points in Alaska (my friend has vowed to start donating to the Alaskan Independence Party so that incubator of corrupt and incompetant politicians will leave us alone and take their two corrupt Republican senators with them).
I know I should be happy. My friends keep telling me that Barack Obama will be good for gay people. And “at least it’s not McCain”. And yet, for the past eight years — for nearly half of my lifetime — my countrymen have been voting to stop me from having equal rights.
An Open Letter
Dear Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, California, and Florida,
Seriously, banning gay adoption? Banning gay marriage? Re-electing a convicted felon? Fuck you. Really, fuck you. I know Alaska has a secessionist party, but do you others have one as well? Let me know and I’ll start donating. Get the fuck out of my country.
Signed,
the non-douchebags of America
Obama Doesn’t Care About Gay People
November 23, 2008 · Filed under Basic Decency, Commentariat, Election 2008, LGBT Issues · Tagged barack obama, bill clinton, congress, democratic party, DOMA, don't ask don't tell, douchebaggery, gay rights, proposition 8, same-sex marriage, wtf
This post originally appeared in the Commentariat, the opinion blog of the Columbia Spectator.
Obama To Delay Repeal of DADT
Sound familiar? It sure does. After Bill Clinton was elected in 1992 he “agreed to postpone for six months his plan to suspend the military ban on gays.” Instead, we got Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and the Defense of Marriage Act.
I wouldn’t have as much of a problem with this — DADT is far less important than same-sex marriage, queer youth homelessness, and AIDS — if it weren’t yet another indicator of Obama’s complete apathy regarding queer people.
The fact that he barely whispered his opposition to Prop 8, his (and Biden’s) particularly vocal opposition to same-sex marriage, and his seeming inability to muster the courage to squeak out a few phrases about other queer issues in general (even Edwards spoke out about queer youth homelessness) does not augur well for America’s gay rights movement.
Lastly, I think that anyone who was expecting major changes to come once Obama takes office will be forced to do a reality check very soon. Like I mentioned elsewhere, he doesn’t have a single representative of labor amongst his economic advisors — they’re all upper-class white men (except for one upper-class white woman).
Obama is not the socialist so many people painted him to be.
Bill Clinton didn’t care about gay people, and neither does Obama. It may be time for queer people to look to the Green Party as the next champion of full equal rights.
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