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About the photo choice: skinhead homophobia is really ironic, with skinhead visual 'culture' being full of homoerotics...

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.
by DoDo on Sat Jul 5th, 2008 at 05:59:18 PM EST
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I recall that the good Dr. Freud noted, in effect, that those who were most vulnerable to homo-erotic impulses were those who most needed to "defend" their psyche from the risk of the eruption of said impulses.  Case in point?

If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.
by ARGeezer (argeezer a in a circle yahoo dot com) on Sat Jul 5th, 2008 at 09:24:28 PM EST
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SOP for authoritarian personalities. Anti-gay violence is a form of psychopathology.
by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sat Jul 5th, 2008 at 09:37:02 PM EST
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Yeah, they are often the ones most in need of such "defense."  How they were raised both gives rise to the violence and the impulses--which must be denied.

If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.
by ARGeezer (argeezer a in a circle yahoo dot com) on Sat Jul 5th, 2008 at 10:53:40 PM EST
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