[lbo-talk] Re: Fidel

[John Thornton]

Standard issue heteronormativity?
I guess I missed the massacre of queers in the US when Bush came into 
power. Maybe I was in Mexico at the time?
I do wish you wouldn't consistently label everything a straight person 
does or any group of straight people as the work of "hets" as if all 
heterosexuals were a monolithic group with a single mindset concerning 
queers. Were I to articulate a particularly loathsome bit of behavior 
done by a queer and then claim "Well, that's queers for you", I'm sure I 
would get an earful. That line of reasoning is offensive...but that's 
white people for you.

I won't defend everything Castro did but I will defend a great deal of 
what he did and the reasons behind them.

John Thornton

Brian Charles Dauth wrote:
>> It looks like it's time to begin to prepare an obituary for Fidel, the 
> most brilliant -- and charming -- leader in socialist history.
>
> I am suprised at you Yoshie.  I thought you were a Friend of Dorothy.  
> Have you traded in your ruby slippers for a pair of Castro jackboots?
>
> I don't think massacring queers upon coming into power was either 
> brilliant or charming -- standard issue heteronormativity as far as I 
> can tell.
>
> I heart maricones.
>
> Brian