Perhaps Hay’s most spectacular achievement was his shrewd tactical move to portray homosexuals as a “minority” class, a crucial step in getting the wider liberal left to protect, accept, and ultimately advance them. Liberals are suckers for a minority movement that they are sympathetic to, and thus this worked masterfully, particularly as the left went secular, sexual, and cultural. “Without the idea of Gays as a cultural minority,” writes Roscoe, “there would be no Gay identity and no Lesbian/Gay movement today.” This “cultural minority thesis,” says Roscoe, has been Hay’s “most profound and lasting contribution.”540 Roscoe and many others would rightly call this a “profound contribution” by Harry Hay.
From the same book - Both classical Marxists and cultural Marxists see history as a series of struggles that divide the world into hostile/antagonistic groups of oppressors and the oppressed. Both seek out victim groups as the anointed group that will also serve as society’s redeemer group.676 The victim group becomes the agent for emancipation in ushering in the new and better world. The Marxist must always, then, be on the search for the newest victim class which, in turn, must always be made aware of its victimization. Its “consciousness” must be raised.
The idea is that we all fall into a victim group. This appeals to the ego of the individuals - just think to yourself - there's nothing wrong with me. It's the system. It's society. I'm perfect. My morals are correct and approved. It's the system. I'm oppressed.
Everyone is oppressed. Everyone fits into the oppression hierarchy.
That's the beauty of equality. It's a utopian dream - even if it were achieved, people would complain that it hasn't. Equality to you looks different from equality to me. Equality to a feminist looks different to a BLM activist and a feminist than to a presbyterian pastor.
So it can never be reached. And you'll always be unhappy. And it's never your fault. It's always the system. No matter how good it is, the system must be torn down.
My minority BIL heavily supports BLM. I made a comment about my childhood where my mother really did attack us. I said, at 29, that I no longer see myself as a victim and that realizing that fact moved me past the issue.
All he said was, "I guess we all learn that lesson eventually". Then proceeded to call me a white supremist and say I was a thinly veiled racist for criticizing the BLM movement as fundamentally Marxist.
From The Devil and Karl Marx:
From the same book - Both classical Marxists and cultural Marxists see history as a series of struggles that divide the world into hostile/antagonistic groups of oppressors and the oppressed. Both seek out victim groups as the anointed group that will also serve as society’s redeemer group.676 The victim group becomes the agent for emancipation in ushering in the new and better world. The Marxist must always, then, be on the search for the newest victim class which, in turn, must always be made aware of its victimization. Its “consciousness” must be raised.
The idea is that we all fall into a victim group. This appeals to the ego of the individuals - just think to yourself - there's nothing wrong with me. It's the system. It's society. I'm perfect. My morals are correct and approved. It's the system. I'm oppressed.
Everyone is oppressed. Everyone fits into the oppression hierarchy.
That's the beauty of equality. It's a utopian dream - even if it were achieved, people would complain that it hasn't. Equality to you looks different from equality to me. Equality to a feminist looks different to a BLM activist and a feminist than to a presbyterian pastor.
So it can never be reached. And you'll always be unhappy. And it's never your fault. It's always the system. No matter how good it is, the system must be torn down.
My minority BIL heavily supports BLM. I made a comment about my childhood where my mother really did attack us. I said, at 29, that I no longer see myself as a victim and that realizing that fact moved me past the issue.
All he said was, "I guess we all learn that lesson eventually". Then proceeded to call me a white supremist and say I was a thinly veiled racist for criticizing the BLM movement as fundamentally Marxist.
Something something, log in our own eye bud.
way to hold that line fren