The things you find that nobody else finds! That's why I read Classical Values. Ahhh, yes.... Gus Hall and George Lincoln Rockwell bring back fond memories to me, those good old days of the 1960's when I was a boy.

In 1992, I accumulated a collection of Nazi and Communist literature, mostly Nazi because they tend to be better writers than Communists, including Holocaust denial propaganda. A "Know Your Enemy" sort of project. I have a book by Rockwell and I also have copy of that Playboy interview. There's a homosexual Nazi named Russell Veh, and I've often pictured him buggering Rockwell. I've often thought that if I was a man's man I'd get off on that. I don't read that race and hate-Jew shit any more, though, because I got tired of it.

Way back in the early 1960's, Gus Hall came to speak at Oregon College of Education in Monmouth, Oregon* where my Dad taught history. I was too little at the time to know anything about politics or Communism, but there was a big controversy over the question of whether Hall should or should not be allowed to speak. I have a book on the history of the college which has a chapter on that episode. My parents were liberals and were for allowing him to speak there. There was a conservative group opposing him speaking there. Today, it's the conservatives who are often not allowed to speak on college campuses. The Communists, or neo-Communists, have taken over now in many places.

*Oregon College of Education is now Western Oregon University.

That "chickenhawk" argument is just stupid. Followed logically, it would mean that most women would be disenfranchised from making any decisions regarding war since they don't serve.

It reminds me of that other stupid argument, used by those same people, that only women have a right to have any opinion about abortion. As a matter of fact, many or most of the strongest opponents of abortion are women. And, more importantly, at least half of those who get aborted (never taken into the equation by the "pro-choice" people) are female. I think that, _as a human being_, I have a right and a duty to form and express an opinion on such a crucial issue of life and death.

Both of those arguments are of a piece with the "post-modernist" premise, prevalent on the Left today, that only those who are members of some designated group can have any understanding of that group or of any issues affecting that group, and that the rest of us should just shut our mouths and obey, e.g., only soldiers can speak about war, only homosexuals can write about homosexuality, only women can write about women, only blacks can write about blacks, only Muslims can say anything about Islam, only garbage collectors can talk about taking out the garbage, etc..

Taken logically, this would lead to some conclusions that would not be so Politically Correct, e.g., only Christians can write about Christianity, only conservatives can argue about conservatism, only Objectivists can object to Objectivism, only Dead White European Males can "deconstruct" the works of Dead White European Males.

Intellectually I agree with SMA about the post-modern premise that only members of a particular group have standing to debate issues that affect the group. After all, if we believe that there is even a little bit of objective truth, then it doesn't matter who you are when you speak about it.

But in practice, though, I have found that few non-homosexuals have had anything meaningful or insightful to say that touches on my life as a gay man. (SMA is one of the exceptions.)