Human migration is as old as humanity. We are a species that for tens of thousands of years or more have been on the move. So why is it that there are still deep divisions about those who move around the planet?The idea of there being finite resources in a given region comes to mind. But in a globalized world, we have learned how to engineer problems associated with the distribution of resources out of the equation. It is commonly heard from opponents of migration that those who are migrating are somehow inferior to those already in a place. Or that local resources cannot support newcomers to a region. Of course, these viewpoints neglect the obvious. The same people who complain about newcomers do not necessarily complain when certain people who already live in an area birth new children. To these people, there always seems to be enough resources for babies that just so happen to look a specific way, or so the argument goes. People migrate for different reasons. Like those who leave a…
Facebook Comment Rabbit Hole I woke this Saturday morning doing the same destructive behavior I have done for years now—grab my phone and scroll through mundane media and social media websites, undoubtedly see something upsetting, and post a truth in the comments section. The website where this took place—Facebook, of course. The topic, Robert Kraft, the Billionaire owner of the New England Patriots who was recently caught with his pants down, on video, at a suspected sex trafficking rub and tug in Jupiter, Florida. Let me be crystal clear before we go any further. There is nothing wrong with sex work by choice. There is everything wrong with sex trafficking and forcing people into being raped, which is what happens when you force someone to engage in sex acts, as allegedly was being done at the Orchids of Asia Day Spa, where Kraft allegedly went to twice during the time that the sex prison was under surveillance by law enforcement. The Facebook page I was on specifically—that of a family…
So stop fawning over him and look at his policies. Now, white, gay men aren’t leading with Pete Buttigieg’s sex appeal. But they don’t have to. Their actions, celebrating him like he’s the next cumming of Jesus Christ, read loud and clear. I’m not discounting the exciting proposition of an out, gay candidate for any office. I yearn for far more diversity among our elected officials, but not at the expense of policies that will help the LGBTQ population, and us all. Let me be clear. I, too, would sit on Mayor Pete’s face. But only to shut him the f**k up from saying all that racist shit. And that equivocation shit. And all that self-serving shit. For a few weeks now I’ve been seeing Pete Buttigieg mania everywhere, especially among white, gay men: social media, corporate media, conversations with white, gay male friends. And it’s gotten to the point where I felt it necessary to dispel some myths about the two-term Democratic mayor from South Bend, Indiana. Sure, Mayor Pete, as many call him…
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