Ehrenreich rocks...but the author should have mentioned her column in the progressive...funny, informative stuff. Anyway, it really bothers me that conservatives are always whining and huffing and puffing about "radical" liberal people in the academic world. I grew up in the academic world, I'm in it now, and I will work in it when I'm done with all the education...point is: I promise you, up and down, that there is NO sort of conspiracy to brain wash america's youth into joining some sort of wide-spread socialist revolt and/or love-in. There just..isn't. In the social sciences you see a lot of liberals …
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hey everyone. I'm a young gay man in the south and I have to say...things are looking scary, not just in the south, but everywhere. I think this upswing in (visible) homophobia is part of the cultural trend towards hateful, narrow-minded, and divisive thoughts and behaviors. I am not only scared for myself, but for anyone else who is "different". Right now, its apparently OK to preach intolerance and hatred of homosexuals, and crimes against the un-straight are rising and there seems to be minimal concern. What next? *WHO* is next? The same hatred and viciousness that fuels this round of …
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wolf- I appreciate your response. I'm going to focus my response on the gay marriage thing. Marriage, despite all this talk of being "sacred," is a contract. Marriage has traditionally been based less on love than on a stable, economically productive couple that generates and accumulates wealth, socializes children, and then passes any accumulated wealth onto the next generation. This is why ending a marriage, but not any other sort of relationship, requires a divorce or annulment; the contract must either be found void (annulment), or voided based on specific "grounds" (no-fault divorce made this much easier, but the concept remains …
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I think both race and class are important variables...in terms of social policy, I think socio-economic status should be given more weight as a determining factor, but in terms of grassroots activism and the like, I think that attention must be paid to both variables and the overlap between the two. Look at the Women's Movement, for instance. The mainstream feminist groups were made by and for middle to upper-class white, relatively well-educated, heterosexual females. The image still engrained on the public consciousness is that of Gloria Steinem or Betty Friedan giving talks about gender inequality. These feminists did important work, …
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