Posted on 07/05/2019 2:44:43 PM PDT by Ennis85
That he did, and given his own lifestyle (heavy gay BDSM) this is a very interesting thing to read:
Foucault — yes, that Foucault — thought this reductive and distracting.
Pinch me, I'm agreeing with Foucault, but he certainly wasn't wrong about the "reductive" part. One might make the same complaint not only about sexual politics but about progressive politics in general: they drain the soul and what is left is an obsessive, unidimensional husk of a person. It is clear, though, that the struggle outlined above is one over narrative, that already having been bent to serve a number of different constituencies and distilled into a heavy concoction of sloganeering and cant. Intersectional politics tend to do that.
bkmk
The problem was that there was this huge demand that the government DO SOMETHING!! But there was little action the government could take in the beginning besides “use a condom” and stop practicing unsafe sex (EG orgies in bath houses) which didn’t go over well at all. Then followed the laws that blocked blood transfusions from homosexuals to try to block the epidemic and all hell broke loose as “that’s demonizing a whole class of people”
But the whole “crisis” served its purpose as a way of rallying the political base during a time when Reagan (like Trump) was making massive improvements in American life.
(Ominously you can start connecting the dots and see that the Democrats and Hillary started this tactic during the Nixon administration and have continued it with every GOP administration since then - I’m sure we can all count the constitutional crisis and disasters that have befallen each GOP presidential admin which miraculously disappeared as soon as the DNC got into office.)
Consider we’ve just funded a $5 BILLION (with a b) package to support illegal immigrants and yet California, Oregon, Austin TX, Michigan and Illinois are becoming cesspools of CITIZENS that are homeless and not getting any funding and, worse, being outright ignored or, in the case of Austin TX, being allowed to camp wherever they want in public streets and spaces to “help”. But what does the DNC concentrate on? Trump hurts illegal immigrants and starts concentration camps - give them money. Insanity and treasonous.
Now that Disney has elected to do a remake of The Little Mermaid, making Ariel black, some wit has proposed that they do a white remake of Song of the South, with Uncle Remus being a white LBGTQP Transgender Pedophile, telling stories to two little black children.
I know there is an argument to be made along those lines. The thing is, I see no end in sight for what they can achieve in this climate.
They are poised right now to destroy Christianity in the United States. Any expression of not agreeing with their behavior is soon to cause churches to be labeled some sort of racial or gender phobe, a real social or legal outcast.
Is it over-reach based on what is reasoned? Well sure, but that’s rather a hollow claim if there are no limits to what they can reasonably demand and attain.
Succeeding at it too. The Catholic Church is going under real fast.
Exactly right.
It is not overreach until their reach is forcibly shortened.
When the 2021 NCAA Women’s basketball championship team is simply a second tier male team on scholarships who supplement their income as cross dressing prostitutes... equality will be served.
“..denied basic rights (especially during the AIDS crisis..”
Like bath houses and glory holes.
I remember the gays screeching like banshees when their “right” to have sex with multiple anonymous partners & spread a deadly STD was shut down by the health department.
Now they’ve got Truvada & they’re arguing amongst themselves over whether it’s more authentically gay to use it, or not.
I am all for LGBTQ (Liquor, Guns, Bacon, Tits, and bbQ.)
“My prediction is that as LGBTQ overreach continues, it will backfire, and the culture will reorient. My hope, then, is that the obsession with identity will die down. And a day will come when people are finally judged by the content of their character — not by the object of their desires. I hope. But I don’t hold my breath.”
The Gods of the Copybook Headings will return - they always have, and when they do it won’t be pretty.
“And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! “
The LGBTQRSTUV “movement” is just a symptom of the serious disease afflicting the West, namely, Affluenza.
Only a ridiculously rich society can afford such delusions. The somewhat good news is that affluenza carries its own cure. Sooner or later the delusional will destroy the sources of all this wealth and affluenza will be no more.
The “right” to force others to do their bidding on the threat of jail.
You have to know leftist code to know what they are saying.
The homosexual movement is an illegitimate movement. That’s why we must insist on reversing Lawrence to undo everything else which they have steamrolled over since then.
I expect people to be treated decently. When it comes to the LGBT XYZ LMNOP issue, I don’t see any rights either.
This has been a taboo for thousands of years in most quarters. There’s simply no reason whatsoever to see it any other way.
Once again, I’m not her to advocate against them being treated decently, but I am here to advocate against accepting everything they do as ‘just normal’, because it isn’t.
They want a level footing when compared to heterosexual relationship, and I stridently object.
Live together. Do whatever you want in your own bedroom. Quite drudging it up in the public arena. Enough already.
They alphabet types want this all in public because they are recruiting. I saw the tv coverage of the pride parade in SF and it was portrayed as a family friendly event. Lots of kids on the sidelines wearing rainbow stuff. They didn’t show what really happens at these parades.
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