This article is about the life of gay people in the United States. In the beginning, Rauch discusses two stories about discrimination of gay people. The first story is about Glenn Cashmore who was walking to his car in a neighborhood known for having a lot of gay people when someone shouted “Hey, Faggot!” and shot him with a pellet gun. The second story was about a teenager heading down a street with two other teenagers when two men called them “faggots.” And proceeded to hurt the three teenagers. One of the teenager boys escaped, another’s face was brutally attacked and the last teenager, John Wear, was stabbed and later died. John Wear’s family said he was not gay but still was killed for thinking he was. The article continues to discus the discrimination and hatred that gay people suffer through but makes an argument that they are not oppressed. Rauch explains that even though gay people’s lives are not easy nor perfect in the United States that there lives are not too bad. One of his evidence is that gay men on average make about a household income of $51,624 and lesbians averaging $42,755 in comparison to the national average which is $36,800. According to this article, gay are not being politically oppressed but there is still existence of gay discrimination.
This article relates to my paper because political oppression and discrimination are still forms of moral injustices that occur in both in Firefly and the real world. In Firefly, the government is definitely repressing the people from any radical changes or rebellions such as the war previously against the Browncoats. So with political oppression and discrimination people still must stand up for moral justice.
Rauch, Jonathan. "BEYOND OPPRESSION." New Republic 208.19 (1993): 18-23. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 14 Apr. 2011.
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