Reply #21: For the record, I do not spout and I never repeat right wing talking points. [View All]

[Bucky]

Rightwingers may have attempted to co-opt some of the Jeffersonian rhetoric about the rights of the individual to justify their larcenous economic policies. Collectivism is the polar opposite of liberalism. I suggest you bone up on your Rousseau and Locke and then come back and tell me why the rights of the individual are right wing talking points. I'll suggest to you that the real threat to our country comes from statists and corporatists like Alberto Gonzalez and Antonin Scalia as much as from straight up crooks like Cheney and Bush.

And those changes will NEVER happen unless there are people of the dominant culture (i.e., white straight males closely followed by white straight females) who are working WITH them to effect change towards equality.

If you really want allies in the "dominant culture" I will also suggest you quite insulting the entire culture with such rote rants as "minority in a racist, sexist, homophobic culture can never become more than a TOKEN" and learn to market your message a little better. Support for equal opportunity sells; saying a whole culture is racist just turns people off.