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Sometimes I get all huffed up and idealistic. While I look back moments later with a slight grimace, I like making grandiose statements I believe in. I also like being challenged. How else would I learn? I replied to a post on The Bilerco Project discussing how we define and who we include in the alphabet soup that are the queer communities (I like a point someone made in the thread that we are a collection of communities somewhat united, rather than a singularly definable community.). The discussion naturally led to how we relate those definitions of community to the struggle for equality. Cindi Knox illustrated the dysfunction of the manner in which we have endeavored to attain equality:
( My reply: )
One thousand starving people will band together to demand food.
One thousand starving people will fight with each other over one hundred meals.
The best way to get one thousand people to stop begging for food is to give them one hundred meals and let them fight over them.
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