Queerty: On Right-Wing Mouthpieces

Queerty is deffo not a right-wing mouthpiece.

No sirree.

They just love the fetishisation of US state military power.

'We gotta bomb Russia for the gays, dudes. Then we'll go for a holiday in sexy Israel and party with all those hot kid-killing conscript soldiers from the IDF.'

'Cause we only care about what we're told to.'

USA! USA! USA!

Only in braindrowned AmeriKKKa can a left-right divide be defined on whether you like the gays or not, and not on being opposed to capital.

Welcome to the new gay bourgeois ideal!
In no way are Queerty in the pay of their corporate paymasters.

Perhaps Queerty doth protest too much?

The fundamentalists were mobilised into a political force for the first time [circa 30 years ago] to provide a base for this reaction, and - to the extent that the political system functions, which is not much -- to shift the focus of many voters from the issues that really affect their interests (such as health, education, economic issues, wages) to religious crusades to block the teaching of evolution, gay rights and abortion rights...

These are all issues about which CEOs, for example, just don’t care very much. They care a lot about the other issues. And if you can shift the focus of debate and attention and presidential politics to questions quite marginal for the wealthy - questions of, say, gay rights -- that’s wonderful for people who want to destroy the labour unions, or to construct a social/political system for the benefit of the ultra-rich, while everyone else barely survives.

Thus the discourse and the focus shift to issues of great concern to the fundamentalists, but of only marginal concern to the people who own and run the society.

In fact, you could take a look at the attitudes of CEOs: they’re what are called liberal. They’re not very different from college professors. And if the population can become obsessed with “evolution theory” and gay rights, that’s fine, so long as the business world is running the social and economic policies with little interference.

After the last election, the business press described the “euphoria” in corporate boardrooms, and it wasn’t because they were against gay marriage. Some were, some weren’t; many of them or their children are gay anyway  - no, what they knew is that it was a free run for business.

And if you can manage that, that’s an achievement; it’s one of the ways the population can be kept under control - plus inducing fear, which is a standard device.

Noam Chomsky.