What is the power behind the scapegoating of gays and lesbians?
After AIDS the prejudice, hatred, and fear of gay people rose sharply.
And some people on the conservative side of politics took advantage of this to create a social, religious, and political scapegoat.
The scapegoat is laden with all the evil, corruption, and wickedness of society.
And the reactionary trigger of the moral majority creates political power.
Most of this, however, takes place on the unconscious level.
But the fact remains that the political Right* has disgraced itself by succumbing to the temptation to use gay people as a social scapegoat.
(*With the help of Generation X and their allies.)
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