• return2ozma@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 months ago

    Lady Bunny told Truthout that she categorizes herself as “probably far left” on the political spectrum. Most drag celebrities nowadays are contestants on RuPaul’s Drag Race, which might explain why some choose to stay silent on the genocide, she said. “RuPaul is political in the safest possible way, and maybe that’s what he’s teaching his minions to do … keep it real safe, keep it real blah. And then you’ll get your endorsement deals, and your influencer deals.”

    Bunny and RuPaul moved from Atlanta to New York in the 1980s and shared an apartment in the city where they both quickly became fixtures of the nightlife and gay worlds. Their politics, however, aren’t in step. “Ru, and anyone supporting Joe Biden is center-right,” Bunny told Truthout. So if the most powerful name in drag is “creating queens in the image of him, well, he’s a person who votes center-right and fracks,” Bunny said of her ex-roommate.

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    3 months ago

    That’s hilarious…they understand they’d be stoned to death in Gaza right?

    That is an odd odd thing.

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      You see the cool thing about places is that they actually contain people, and not all the people inside share the government’s views.

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          1. And that means they should be killed?
          2. And if it does, the people who don’t share those views should also be killed for because they’re in the minority??
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            That’s not what I said. I just said it’s ironic that a group that would most certainly be killed in Gaza would defend Gaza.

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              Because they aren’t defending Hamas, the nation, the laws or the religion, they are defending the fact the women, children and aid workers there at least have the right not to be openly murdered.

              There’s no irony, youre just missing the point.