Charles Blow, liberal columnist for the New York Times, wrote at astonishing length on Sunday about how oppressed and victimized he is as both a nonheterosexual person and as a black man.
“My coming out was unconventional and, to many, unacceptable,” wrote Blow. “I came out late, in my 40s, after a heterosexual marriage. I came out as bisexual, which is viewed with suspicion and contempt by gay people as well as straight ones. And I apparently don’t have enough gay-obvious affectations for some people, although there are quite a few people in my high school who would beg to differ.”
Once you’re done laughing, let’s continue.
He went on to say that the source of all that slander coming his way for being bisexual and not “gay-obvious” enough was in large part a matter of — what else? — racism.
“Here it is important to say that this criticism almost never came from the Black gay community but from the white one,” Blow wrote in his predictable way. “This critique may be divorced from race, but in my mind, a complete divorce is unachievable.”
And yet, for all of the oppression Blow has endured, he is apparently doing OK. He is, in fact, thriving.
Blow continued, “I was even asked recently in an interview why I wasn’t more gay, or something to that effect, because people who followed me would most likely not know that I was part of the queer community. I reminded my interviewer that I had written a best-selling book about my identity and that that book has been developed into an opera that will become the first opera by a Black composer to be staged at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in its history. What other queer man can make such a claim?”
No, this is not a parody. Those sentences actually appeared in print in this country’s most influential news publication.
But more importantly, this is actually how all of today’s liberals operate — they insist that they’re victims, always on account of their race, gender, or sexual identity. And then, they reap the rewards that come with claiming such fake grievance.
As described in my book Privileged Victims, there’s a name for this phenomenon. It’s called “social justice.”
It’s also a scam and Charles Blow, who has been attacked for not having enough gay-obvious affectations, perpetuates it very well.
