Discrimation from within?

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Quite often, it’s much more easy to copy a concept than to to provide original content. Even more often, there is absolutely no need at all to be original – let’s face it, reinventing the wheel is not only useless, it simply cannot be done.

These meandering thoughts passed by when I stumpled upon  www.sexualracismsux.com, a strange site that elaborates on making choices.  What they’re saying in summary is quite basic: sexual behaviour is no more justified a place for prejudice than any other area of life. Apparently, they use the inflated label “racism”, grossly out of context.

Unfortunately, they have more then one major misconception online . I quote: (about “sexual racism”) “It enforces the myth that we are separate and distinct”. But we are separate and distinct, it’s not a myth, it’s a fact.  I live in a city with about 120 different nationalities, but  if I cross the border into France the cultural differences are so huge that I prefer (a choice) not to connect to French gays on a personal level.

They like to legitimate another part of their logic by quoting the words of Justice Michael Kirby at the opening ceremony of the 2002 Gay Games: “Real beauty lies in the fact that so many are united – not in the negatives of hate and exclusion, so common today, but in the positives of love and inclusion.”

Cute, but if you dissect their logic it must be clear that it carries really some major flaws. Obviously, there is nothing wrong with embracing the concept of love, acceptance and inclusion.  But what if the majority “in our minory” simply doesn’t care for this attitude?

The proof of the pudding is in the eating, so just try spending a Saturday Night in a random gay disco (www.redandblue.be will do fine).  Now observe the crowd, and try to spot a climpse of what may resemble the glorified values of “love, acceptance and inclusion”.   Sadly enough, you won’t find them…..

You will stumble upon blatant narcism (20 sometings guys strutting their stuff, with an arrogance that needs urgent psyciatric care), glorified materialism and worst of all: an overdose of prejudice towards anyone who doesn’t fit in their obsessively limited, well-defined ”18-27″ age niche.  And rest assured, this attitude is “an ongoing affair”.

Mind you, I believe that issues like “discrimination from within” are improper and show that people unfortunately tend to make choices based on criteria like age, appearance, etc – but as long as these choices are personal, they do not represent “an act of racism”

Gay guys and “inside discrimination”, was it really a problem that turned into a lifestyle?