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I just want to know why many people call "gay" the new black?
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They are not, nowhere close. But the pendulum of prejudice now swings in a narrower arc thanks to the Civil Rights and Women's Rights movements.
Gays don't have to worry about housing discrimination or employment discrimination, or education discrimination, or a two-tier legal system, or voting disenfranchisement, or not being able to eat, drink, ride, or poop in the same facilities the majority group uses. Their experience of being an out-group is in most ways milder.
But even though the injustice is milder now it is still injustice.
Thus the comparison I guess.
December 20, 2008 8:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
You won't get much help from me because I can't understand it myself. I've heard that it's because Gays are being denied their civil rights just like Blacks were denied their civil rights. Just yesterday I read an article where the author, upset about the fact that Obama invited Warren to pray, took it to mean that they (Gays) were now the ones sitting in the back of the bus. I could feel my blood pressure rising when I read that sentence. If I wasn't brown skinned, I would have turned beet red. By the way, I don't want to turn this into a string of comments about Warren.
December 20, 2008 9:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's called a wedge issue. If the Reich can drive a wedge between the black and the GLBT communites, their faction can prevail. It's an insidious disease that erodes the base of the Democratic Party. It's founded on deception because, as is so clearly illlustrated above, the parellels are few and far between.
Gay as the new black is ax expression from the Reich.
December 21, 2008 1:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
I totally buy your theory here. Indeed, we need to forge ties not divisions. Thanks!
December 21, 2008 10:50 AM | Reply | Permalink