Comments on: Gay Professor Loves Big Groups, Small Groups

By: charles

charles — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:22:36 +0000

“Iâ€™ not so sure, Charlie, about the prof .having a black perspectivce: heâ€™s not black! heâ€™s looks to be a caucasian: an Indian of some sort, Iâ€™m sure. he is admitedly gay though.”

Um, his dad is black and his mom is white, and he teaches African and African-American studies.

By: M Shane

M Shane — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:05:10 +0000

What he brings up and I ‘m curious about is are people concerned about the institution (ie being like heteros) or about rights???????

By: M Shane

M Shane — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:00:16 +0000

Look what happened to Hitler, for that matter.

By: M Shane

M Shane — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:57:47 +0000

I’ not so sure, Charlie, about the prof .having a black perspectivce: he’s not black! he’s looks to be a caucasian: an Indian of some sort, I’m sure. he is admitedly gay though.

Andrew: re: “What do you make of the federalist argument here in the United States? [states rights] What does that do to American democracy, in your opinion?”

The fact here, which so many Americans are so frightfully confused about is the assumption that democracy has anything to do with justice (appart from the pssiabilirty that everyone votes). Alexis de Toqueville in 1850 made a point of saying that democracy was one of the great dangers to [freedom]. The people can (as they have) vote in a facsist totolitarian leadership. Look what happened with Bush %78 of the religious fringe element(the crazies voted him in. That’s what the GOP is betting on now.
We have a huge population of selfish, arrogant dummies who vote. People always think that there are no socialist democracies: wrong.

By: Charley

Charley — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:37:03 +0000

I am for Obama also, but if there was a gay candidate running I would be voting for him. I presume this professor is coming from a black perspective, which is, whether he admits it or not, egocentric, and some would say racist.

By: M Shane

M Shane — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:14:52 +0000

Yes , yes. I couldn’t be more pleased that you are bringing chalenging thought and absolutely important material to the forum. This seems a little thoughtfully hitting on popular thought than academia, and I hope that everyone rises to the chalenge.
One of the really horrible and mosty destructive things about a lot of queers is that they get so traumatized in school that they never learn to read and think. That of course condemns us to just fucking and drug addiction and materialism.
If we want to get anywhere as a community we need to think. as well as have fun.

By: msim

msim — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:03:16 +0000

I really don’t like to post but you have forced my hand, boys.
I can’t believe you got this wonderful interview with Mr Appiah. He is a great (post?) modern thinker. I wish he, like Dick Hebdige and Stuart Hall, were more present in the current American discourse.

This is why I love Queerty; some trash, some gossip, some politics, some great music and High-Academia (I remember the Valerie Steele interview).
Thank you.

By: M Shane

M Shane — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:50:40 +0000

I want to say right here that this guy could not be more accurate: Indeed I can only see the issue on an abstract level: I don’t think that you can say that you believe in equality without the gay agenda being neutralized and precluded by our refusal to make a society that is just for all people alone. hat just promotes a selfish agenda and makes the project meaningless. Many gay people fall in the shadow of selfishness without realizing that they are promoting an ethic which applies to them.