Stephen Harper and other horrors
Feb. 12th, 2005 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
felis_ultharusAlright, that does it. We all knew Stephen Harper was an evil homophobe, but why aren't people calling him on his racism.
His current tactic, of course, is to play the queer community against ethnic minorities (because, of course, all queer people are white). Here's a good article for background. Stephen Harper's contention, apparently, is that all members of all ethnic minorities are narrow-minded, incorrigible homophobes like himself.
Frankly, to assume any group so large as an ethnic minority having the same opinion on anything is racist, and to lower them to the pit in which people like Harper are bred is doubly so. To accuse all ethnic minorities of being incapable of compassionate critical thought -- as Harper is doing -- borders on Nazism.
No cultural background, no age category, no religious belief, can ever, under any circumstances, be used to deny an individual their equal rights. I will accept no excuse from anyone for institutionalized homophobia. But Harper is attempting to use one deeply-held Canadian value against us.
For Harper to attempt to fracture the web of communities that makes up this country -- in a cynical attempt to get reelected -- is lowest thing this idiot has ever done. I doubt he'll be successful -- he's seriously underestimated a lot of people -- but he might actually do some damage on his way down: he'll split members of these communities against each other, convince some white gay people that their self-respect depends on racism, and make life hell for members of the queer community who are members of these groups themselves themselves.
But let's be optimistic here. There's a good chance his fragile party will be split at the seems again.
Anyway, in more cheerful news, I got a copy of Yami no Matsuei, volume 1 -- a gay Goth Japanese horro comic. Nothing in it is as scary as Canadian politics, however.
His current tactic, of course, is to play the queer community against ethnic minorities (because, of course, all queer people are white). Here's a good article for background. Stephen Harper's contention, apparently, is that all members of all ethnic minorities are narrow-minded, incorrigible homophobes like himself.
Frankly, to assume any group so large as an ethnic minority having the same opinion on anything is racist, and to lower them to the pit in which people like Harper are bred is doubly so. To accuse all ethnic minorities of being incapable of compassionate critical thought -- as Harper is doing -- borders on Nazism.
No cultural background, no age category, no religious belief, can ever, under any circumstances, be used to deny an individual their equal rights. I will accept no excuse from anyone for institutionalized homophobia. But Harper is attempting to use one deeply-held Canadian value against us.
For Harper to attempt to fracture the web of communities that makes up this country -- in a cynical attempt to get reelected -- is lowest thing this idiot has ever done. I doubt he'll be successful -- he's seriously underestimated a lot of people -- but he might actually do some damage on his way down: he'll split members of these communities against each other, convince some white gay people that their self-respect depends on racism, and make life hell for members of the queer community who are members of these groups themselves themselves.
But let's be optimistic here. There's a good chance his fragile party will be split at the seems again.
Anyway, in more cheerful news, I got a copy of Yami no Matsuei, volume 1 -- a gay Goth Japanese horro comic. Nothing in it is as scary as Canadian politics, however.
