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[aesmael]

As much as these public outbursts of white liberal racism in the wake of the recent US election are disgusting, I don't like better the recent Proposition 8 related shift to "Oh, it was just a right-wing misinformation campaign to sow division among their enemies; black people didn't really steal our rights after all."

Assuming for the moment the trumpeting of that falsehood were such an attempt, it wouldn't have worked if the queer rights movement were not thoroughly white and soaked in racism. If there had been more outreach all along, dialogue and inclusion with people of colour so it was allowed to be a movement of all queer persons and part of everyone's communities rather than by and for the white ones, who would have believed such a thing?

Blaming this recent exposure on conservative trickery is just another way to avoid dealing with it.

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[allieflowlight.livejournal.com]

P... people are actually saying that?

*a loud "thud" sound is heard as Allie's head connects with her desk for the billionth time in the past few weeks*

[aesmael.livejournal.com]

A couple of times, yah. Mostly after someone gives figures showing that even if no black people had voted it still would have passed in California, as speculation about why then this figure has been so prominent in the media, and about the reliability of the original figure.

Which are questions worth asking, sure, but in context they concern me (as above).

[allieflowlight.livejournal.com]

I suppose it is possible that the entire "blacks voted against us" fiction came from a very real (and common) white fundy tactic: telling African-Americans, "Gays are hijacking the civil rights movement! They want to take away the progress you've made and appropriate it for themselves!"

For years, I argued that that was a bold-faced fundy lie, but then white gays basically went and proved them right. >_< Pisses me off.

[kales85.livejournal.com]

exactly. needs to be said

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

Absolutely!

I haven't really been following the prop 8 thing much (since it's in another country and like the recent usa elections, don't vote either way) but I did notice these all these racist assumptions being reported on friend's posts.

As usual, the simpler assumption gets the publicity, whether it's accurate or not.

[pazi-ashfeather.livejournal.com]

*nodding* Well-put.