re: When will gay jokes from student hecklers become unacceptable?

Bogie, nine months ago I moved to Mississippi from College Station, TX, after having spent the previous 40+ years of my life going aback and forth between Houston and CS. All my life in Texas.

I knew I'd see a different culture in Mississippi; but nothing could've prepared me for all that I saw that first month here. I don't think I could speak for a month. Without getting wrapped up in the extreme poverty/scarcity of industry/school systems, etc., more than anything I was stunned by the feeling of living 40 years ago. Many people warned me of this phenomena before I moved; and they were spot on. It truly has been like going back in time. On a daily basis, something happens that makes me say aloud, "did that just happen?"

That said: Race relations here are very odd. It's very much a situation where the white people live [here] and the black folks live [there], but never the twain shall meet.

The faculty at the university operate the same. As do the students. Very little natural social integration. People are friendly enough to others, but rarely do they socialize together. That blows my mind, coming from the very rich cultural academic background from which I came.

So to get back to you Golden Rule advice, I find it to be quite sound. Because despite the innumerable differences between people here; doing unto others as we would have them do unto us is one of the only certainties I can grasp and hold onto. So far, it's done me right!

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This is news to the poor, straight, white males.

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Not really. Poor whites, particularly in the South, were every bit as oppressed economically post-Civil War as black folks. Most couldn't vote. In fact, MOST of the South, not just the black population, was completely and utterly disenfranchised - incapable of paying the poll tax and and in many cases unable to read pass "literacy tests" among other things. You're from Mizzou so perhaps you don't realize it but in the South calling someone a democrat is akin to calling them poor because poor whites have traditionally (still do despite stereotypes to the contrary) voted Democratic.

Nonetheless there's no doubt SWMs control the gears of power, have more $$, and control the government. They're just ELITE/Wealthy white males who don't give a flying frick about poor people. Those ELITE moneyed white males do their damdest to cut every social program despite the fact that those programs (TAMF, Food Stamps, Rural Loans/HUD/Public Housing, State administered health care plans like Medicaid/Medicare etc.) help whites FAR MORE than people of color. ELITE white males, republicans mainly but democrats too care about rich white males as that's their base (the base of both parties) and no one else. **Obviously the party of the elites is subject to change at any time but make no mistake the GOP talks populism while promoting bad policies for the poor.

If you give two shits about poor whites/working poor of any color you can't in good conscience support policies designed to continue punishing the poor/working poor and perpetuate their existence through policies that promote the continued exacerbation of income equality.

Poverty is a problem that knows no color and in sheer numbers effect whites far more than anyone else. MLK understood the problem and before he was murdered was working on income inequality and rekindling the old coalition between black folks and poor whites - a coalition as old as Bacon's Rebellion (that colonial Rebellion in which whites and blacks banded together to fight against the elite directly led to the invention of 'race,' chattel slavery (race as a color based/formal institution), and the color line that forbade whites and blacks to interact and marry.

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The alliance between former indentured servants and Africans against bond-servitude disturbed the ruling class, who responded by hardening the racial caste of slavery.[4][5][6]

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Want to change that? Hold BOTH parties to account but don't confuse color for economic class.

In the interest of brevity you could have just stated that you support communism.

[quote]UnAnon LSU Fan Breaux Bridge Member since Sep 2013 689 posts re: If racism is unnaceptable, then so should homophobia and sexism. [/quote

How do you like your Prius?

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That said: Race relations here are very odd. It's very much a situation where the white people live [here] and the black folks live [there], but never the twain shall meet.

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So you've never lived north of the Mason Dixon? Cuz that's how it is there, too.

That makes zero sense.

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That makes zero sense.

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You're a pretty reasonable fella, but I didn't think your post to which we were responding made all that much sense either.

Maybe.
Just my (and my colleagues') experiences thus far.
Like I said, I've only been here 9 months.

I am a Republican.
That is not what I believe.