"Gay Racists - On the Fringe of the Fringe" (Edge Boston article)

[AspenRose]

I'll point out that Gary Bailey, the gentleman interviewed for this article, is black and out-gay.

http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=107623

[Number23]

1. "Can a gay man (or woman?) be a racist?"

:wtf: Uhhhh, yes. HELL yes. Next question??

I think this sums it up best. From the article: "Even if you are gay and white, or retarded and white, YOU ARE WHITE. BOTTOM LINE!"

It ain't pretty or well articulated, but that statement seems damn true to me. And this is exactly why people who act as though being gay REMOVES the privileges of being white (if they are white) are not taken seriously. Being gay would certainly seem to LESSEN the privileges though. But the perceived superiority of whiteness and maleness are the two pillars of American society. That has just recently started to change.

There elitist attitudes are tied to physical appearance and age are much more common than overt racist overtures.

Typos aside, this was interesting. There was a thread in GD a few months ago I think where they were saying that black women are the least checked box on the "desirable" list on dating web sites. The thread got about a hundred responses and for every comment that said that this was racist and shameful, there were at least 3 saying that it was a "personal preference" and that people should be allowed to basically discriminate if that's what they prefer to do.

It was inconceivable to these folks that skin color should not be placed on the same level as intelligence, character, sense of humor etc.

[Karenina]

2. More excerpts...

"People who are oppressed are not immune to oppressing and having feelings that would allow them to discriminate against other people," Bailey notes. In other words, a lot of people - even (or especially) those near the bottom or oppressed themselves - enjoy putting down still other classes of people.

<snip>

It was a posting on the GAR site, from a lesbian, that perhaps best articulated the conundrum of gay racism. Quoting her posting, the report demonstrated the perspective that "Even if you are gay and white, or retarded and white, YOU ARE WHITE. BOTTOM LINE! Instead of letting the white race go extinct because of worthless races such as the african race or the mexican race popping out literally millions of babies a day, we have to fight this fucked up shit they are doing. They are raping our country."