Questionable
16th April 2013, 20:28
I've been pro-LBGT all my life, even when I was a young boy. I don't know if it was because my first exposure to politics was the comedy routines of liberals like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, but the left-wing just sort of came naturally to me.
That stance obviously came with me when I became a Marxist. I even wrote a college paper about the discrimination of LBGT in homeless shelters, which was a very enlightening project.
However, recently I've become confused.
Perhaps it's because I've been visiting the darker parts of the internet too much, but I've encountered people who appear to be more than LBGT. There are people who claim they have multiple personalities and those personalities are in love with each other. There are people who claim they can focus their mental energy to summon people that only they can see, and they demand these mental projections be respected like real people.
In short, I've encountered some extremely outlandish viewpoints. Now, I'm definitely not saying I'm giving up being pro-LBGT. What I'm confused about is what our attitude towards the more...fringe sections of the group should be. We support gays, lesbians, and transsexual people. Does that also mean we support people who claim that there are multiple people living inside their bodies? I'm sorry if I sound bigoted, but these people strike me more as being mentally ill than an oppressed minority.
Not to mention that when they become active in the political field, their politics are usually...atrocious. It reminds me of the New Left strain, wherein they reject the working class as the revolutionary agent (In this case I've noticed these people perceive the working class as too "privileged" for them and don't want anything to do with them) and they believe that revolutionary change will come from countercultural minority groups instead of the revolutionary proletariat. The whole thing stinks of postmodernism.
So what should our stance be toward these people? Or am I just overthinking a small group of people that don't really exist outside of the internet?
That stance obviously came with me when I became a Marxist. I even wrote a college paper about the discrimination of LBGT in homeless shelters, which was a very enlightening project.
However, recently I've become confused.
Perhaps it's because I've been visiting the darker parts of the internet too much, but I've encountered people who appear to be more than LBGT. There are people who claim they have multiple personalities and those personalities are in love with each other. There are people who claim they can focus their mental energy to summon people that only they can see, and they demand these mental projections be respected like real people.
In short, I've encountered some extremely outlandish viewpoints. Now, I'm definitely not saying I'm giving up being pro-LBGT. What I'm confused about is what our attitude towards the more...fringe sections of the group should be. We support gays, lesbians, and transsexual people. Does that also mean we support people who claim that there are multiple people living inside their bodies? I'm sorry if I sound bigoted, but these people strike me more as being mentally ill than an oppressed minority.
Not to mention that when they become active in the political field, their politics are usually...atrocious. It reminds me of the New Left strain, wherein they reject the working class as the revolutionary agent (In this case I've noticed these people perceive the working class as too "privileged" for them and don't want anything to do with them) and they believe that revolutionary change will come from countercultural minority groups instead of the revolutionary proletariat. The whole thing stinks of postmodernism.
So what should our stance be toward these people? Or am I just overthinking a small group of people that don't really exist outside of the internet?