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Why aren't straights included in that? It's identity politics, plain and simple. Those labels are just the further enforcement of sexual boundaries.
Kasu wrote:The separation is a cultural illusion.It's fact. It's expressed in the reactionary attitude of society towards such things as Gay marriage, in the US. Hear anything about Canada's problems with LGBT marriage lately? of course not. The separation, in this regard, has been removed.
Kasu wrote:identity politics has been the gravedigger of revolutionary politics for the last 50 years. It is opportunist to the core.Are you kidding???! The Civil Rights movement in the US was about identity politics. Giving women equal rights and the right to vote was also identity politics. Are you saying that people who do not have the same rights and privileges as others, should not be allowed to fight for them?
Kasu wrote:The separation is a cultural illusion.
They aren't opposite any more than whites and blacks are opposite.
The ideas you are expressing have nothing in common with marxism
it is in fact the postmodernism you accuse me of
identity politics has been the gravedigger of revolutionary politics for the last 50 years. It is opportunist to the core.
Godstud wrote:It's fact. It's expressed in the reactionary attitude of society towards such things as Gay marriage, in the US. Hear anything about Canada's problems with LGBT marriage lately? of course not. The separation, in this regard, has been removed.
Suska wrote:There was never an institutional victimization of either gays or women that didn't rise directly from the actual weaknesses those conditions produced...
please define "weakness of social function/position of homosexuality."Name an injustice done systematically to women and gays in America. When women wanted the vote they got it despite some fair objections arising from the standard domestic arrangements of the time.
Suska wrote:hospital visitation rights are a matter of hospital policy applying to both heterosexual and homosexual domestic partners. You might have suggested several actual rights, such as those governing inheritance and decisions making - all of which can be governed by estate planning and powers of attorney.
Suska wrote:Name an injustice done systematically to women and gays in America. When women wanted the vote they got it despite some fair objections arising from the standard domestic arrangements of the time.
Suska wrote:Identity politics can never transcend the high heights of forgivably un-patriotic, and because of the actual degenerate lifestyles of the people who employ it there will always be something to complain about because transference of blame can be accomplished with a shrug.
Suska wrote:There was never an institutional victimization of either gays or women that didn't rise directly from the actual weaknesses those conditions produced, and those are increasingly moot - not because of "identity politics" but because of a renewed acquaintance with diversification of social assignment.
Suska wrote:For general social purposes nobody cares if you're gay anymore. Pun intended; quit trying to enshrine butthurt as a way of life, it can only ever be temporarily expedient.
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