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Lord Lucan
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Re: rightwing Dutch politician assassinated
May 07, 2002, 17:27
You're right that there are no absolutes as regards people's experiences informing their political beliefs. Some of black culture has produced some of the most vocally homophobic bullshit around, for example. However, there IS undoubtedly a greater propensity for gay people to question deeper the beliefs and values which 'straight' society takes for granted. When you say 'What's being gay got to do with anything?' you're denying the fact that, as Merrick has pointed out, this guy felt his sexuality was under attack from Islamic culture. This seems central to what formulated the guy's ideas. He had already gone through some degree of social exclusion by being gay, so evidently felt able to grasp the nettle and espouse a view which ostracised him further from much of the society he lived in. I'd say that in this case being gay has a lot to do with it. The press are approaching it from the wrong angle maybe, but homophobia seems to have been a pretty important motivator for him.
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