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John Robert's avatar

Your criticism of "faggot" is right on target. I think the same about queer. The situation with that word may be even worse. Hardly a day goes by without somebody on NPR carrying on about "queer" something or other or someone labeling themselves as "queer". To me the two words are and always have been hate speech, fully as much "verbal violence" as the forbidden N-word. A couple weeks ago I heard a report on NPR that a large majority of the people who identify as "queer" are in fact entirely heterosexual in their history and current behavior! (Sorry. I can't give the exact numbers or source. I was only half listening while I made coffee.) It solidified my suspicion that all the "queers" running around nowadays are a bunch of over privileged 30 somethings who think the world began when they dropped down the chute circa 1990 and feel the need to borrow some of the cachet of oppression. I doubt they know anything of oppression except what they learned in their Grievance Studies classes. Here endeth the rant.

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Several years ago I told a friend that the biggest threats to gays would be coming from left-wing ideology, not the right. He a straight progressive rolled his eyes in disbelief.

I came out in the 1970s and have never been ashamed of being gay, although have been fully aware of the price paid. Many of my friends now are relatively affluent, to substantially affluent gay men in their 50s and 60s. It's amazing to talk to them about politics.....it's as if their mental frame of reference is 20 years behind. Several are big time donors to HRC.

Mostly clueless of gender theory and the effect that is having on women and gays and lesbians. Not just clueless, but in many ways, recalcintrantly clueless. And dismissive of ideas that challenge "right side of history" teleology.

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