YES DOM!
I am quite excited to see someone raise these issues. It is something
that has concerned me and am currently trying to write about in
fictional terms. (I hope any provocations weren't too offensive, BTW.)
> One of the things I've noticed about
> racist dystopias is that they are always *someone's* idea of a
> sexually-liberated heaven-on-earth: at the sharp end of oppression
> you'll always find a rich white male sticking his cock into someone
> less rich, less white and less male -
Yes, I could very much agree with your comments on Bersani. I would
perhaps extend it to the gay rights movement in Australia, too.
Although I may risk being someone who is seen as always in
opposition, even within opposition, so to speak, I find that movement
very white middle class which in turn is a ruling class interest.
For example, to be opposed to racism and hence be
more radical also means fucking racial minorities. Further, for a
radical faggot to admit that they may be a from the historical ruling
class in Aust invites ridicule and censure. A critique of the various
privileges that are gained from class status or race seem to be
elided in all this. I have found a sort of censure already in the
fact that I am writing about two very privileged white boys, for
example, when I venture to talk about it, that is.
> Burroughs liked to forget, about money and power - about the fact
> that the "desiring skin" of the immoralist is a white skin with
> white skin privileges.
This says it much better then my clumsy attempt, above. Although I am
extending this and also looking at the collapse or removal of that
privilege, in a sense, which I suspect amplifies the difference, in
my current fiction, anyway.
many thanks for comments. It is great to get another perspective on
this, too.
Chris Jones.
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