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LIBERATION SECTION Scrimshaw Thursday. April 15. 1976 Thursday, April 15, 1976 . Scrimshaw LIBERATION SECTION Introduction Burying Viol ce by Choosing Liberation NOTE: Views expressed in these articles and thoseon oage 1 are those of their wr not necessarily of the SCRIMSHAW or its editors, Comments are welcome. by John Springer -These days are laden with this country's bicentennial year we that heterosexual society treats the bicentennial talk about meaning For Christians tomorrow may keep on honoring its beautiful gays. Not only are ther_e many laws fre~do.ll! and virtue with those _ .. and gladly tecl of ghettos and in this world of violence. It is also, however, very When we begin this discovery A person who really gets into is Good Friday; for seniors this side wit,iJ.nut regard for any other and cultural attitudes restricting pr-ior-ities makes one wonder hungry people. When we choose personal violence because it hurts and expression our relationships their own identity faces an ap- spr-ing is graduation; for America If we choose liberation tfiough. we the freedom of gays (physical whether our country and its people ignorance of the plight of cthers . us just as it hurts others. In con- are greatly enhanced. Liberation 'is parent but illusory paradox. The .hts is the bicentennial. Baste to will also open our eyes, hearts, and violence) but, in addition, gays ~e conce~ned with violence or To violate he said that is violence. When we know but sistently hiding our real feelings like frozen water which has begun paradox is that such a person the. meaning in these times is, mouths to the violence and rape must deal within their own heads hberated hfe. Do we care? panting slightly still remain silent in the midst of we deny ourselves the fullness and to thaw. as it thaws and thaws and realizes their uniqueness and violence • perhaps. a choice which all of us . which has and is being done in the with societys' characterization of clam paws on oaken lect prejudice and ignorance - that also growth which comes from in- becomes freer and freer it will specialness but also begins to see or menta!. • Christians, seniors, Americans. or name of America. In choosing them as perverted and sick human Violence can be interpersonal is something not • is violence. We don't care and timacyand sharing. When we say gush 'and flow from ourselves to that all of life is, at its hear; one otherwise, are making. It is a liberation or violence one process .betngs (mental violence}. Ar- as well as societal and, like societal quintessential because we don't care (about the only what we think others. others in love. The thing about that and the same. We are a1l different choice yet to call it that seems will be buried and the other bitrarily and falsely making people violence, interpersonal In- • but we must as (were • world or about each other) we are want to hear and only what we are love is of course that the more we expressions of one epecialmese simplistic because it is so fun- planted. Planting, burying, and believe and feel that they are may be either physical violence and is • discuss it • vtotent. Because we are violent our ~o~fortable in expressing we are give. the more v.:e let it flow freely aalled life. As fingers on a hand w damental a process. Take a choosing between the two are all perverted and sick human beings At WMC violence is mostly within reason • brothers and sisters continue lieing both to others and to our- .. away. the more we have inside. are different and yet spring from smiles • moment lor your life, I hoper i and endless 7 what we do today and is an awful thing to do. Societys' terpersonal mental • forthrightly • starving abroad. Because we are selves. Not only will others believe Amazing! the same base. Liberation and love briefly dear your head of day to tomorrow is a beginning violence seems a lot more per- shown by our attitudes toward violent our gay brothers and our lies and therefore not really show us this continuity beween here, • day concerns and'tocus mind and verted and sick than any persons' each other and toward the world. as is our wont or oblige • sisters 'keep suffering. here in know us, but we will believe our I\s that love begins to flow out- ourselves and others . it shows us hear-t on this fundamental choice. Violence takes many forms. Our sexual preference could ever be. There are lots of superficial among these • America. Because we don't care, own lies. Constant filtering rather ward we become more and more our .kinship to the rest of life. As a In reading this. article and the societys' violence toward minority In addition to hurting its own and social niceties around contacts • liberalizing arts • because we are violent, people still than real sharing eventually accepting of others who are dif- part of the Whole we are no longer others in this LlUEHATION issue groups is both physical and members our society also supports but beyond those illusory for each • • live with rats. One must wonder makes us ignorant of who we truly ferent. When we are free because separate from the world but in- of scrtmshaw allow yourself to manta!. A common esperience of a military which has the potential are our honest feelings • (the headline hieroglyph nded spinx • why we care' so verv little... are and what our genuine feelings we know who we are it no longer stead know that all people share a care, and to feel, and to un- blacks in America has been and is to destroy the rest of the world as other. Those honest feelings and • sold copies quickly: Jaw donkey type _ are. In my experience a1ienation threatens us when others assert common identity. That common derstandingly consider what we housing and job discrimination. well. Are we such children that the attitudes are, I think, insensitive • slays thousands) • Violence is all that has been and lonliness come from losing their own identities. We are no identity is our humanity and our are trying to say. Extend to us, if Freedom of movement and em- only way in which we may respond and violent. • mentioned societal and in- touch with the feelings of others longer afraid of difference. As I life. you will, the benefit of the doubt as ployment .for blacks has been to aggression is to become violent in • although those who viol • terpersonal, physical and mental, and with my own. The experience progr-ess along the path of we express what is most restricted by the violent laws, killers? Are we such children that The sexism deeply imbedded ex- • it is the desire of all of u e it • and it has one more expression as of losing touch comes in from the liberation I, as a white, will feel personal violate excessive violence We all ourselves well. meaningful and central in our lives policies. and practices of white we allow others to pull us down to our heads is most obviously • • Many times violence to the self filtering. more and more comfortable with When we see the bonds between . that is, the process of liberation society. I am calling those their animal level? America's pressed, I think, in the constant put- • to be blacks. I, as a straight person, will ourselves and all other people' we restrictions physical violence armed forces are, moreover, 'in- sup-metal role playing which we fortunately there are pr • takes the form of internal put- open myself to warm relationships begin seeing and feeling the tm- We are choosing between White society has in addition, told tended for far more than self- see so often. What is a greater as sex • first of which-is order • downs. Fritz Peris, proponent of The process of liberation is, with gays. I, as a male, will feel OK portence of freeing a1l peop seeking liberation for ourselyes blacks that they are dirty, lazy, defense. We now have the nuclear down than to treat women or to treat • as in rows which we hav • Gestalt psychotherapy, calls this for me, a simultaneous and con- about knowing females with strong hunger, prejudice, and vi and for others or pursuing and stupid human beings. These capacity for killing the world's objects without minds • and fountainheads of p "mind fucking". Mind fucking is tinuing buria1 of violence in its identities. When I am together We begin choosing in whatever violence. On this Good Friday we lies, perpetrated in part by population 12 times over. 12 times! men as studs without feelings? • which I • berating onesetr needlessly and different forms and a planting of inside I am free to learn from those small or large ways commiUment is no greater There destruction may continue our here and now widespread stereotypes, have Not only are we willing to commit Too often our relationships .. he cleared the beaded p • senselessly. These self put-downs dynamica1ly sensitive life. Both who are different from myself.' As I to liberation for everyone because inherent crucifixion and burial of human created havoc and destruction in murder in the name of self- than the mental violence humanity. • and blushed with humbl • can be heard a lot in listening to the burial and the planting begin on become freer and freer, as my we know that we are not free unt rreecom or we may choose instead the way that blacks feel about defense; not only are we capable of in ignoring each others' seem to • • people who minimize their own the inside of people and move out. experience of love deepens and everyone is. Until blacks are no to bury violence and insensitivity themselves because blacks world destruction many times • talents, who cannot accept a Bolli begin in the discovery of broadens, as my identity becomes longer subject to white racism we and begin working toward new believed and internalized them. over; but we are willing to pay for be merely hollow roles interacting • He ivied through the wo halls compliment, or who' are always oneself as a valuable person. stronger and stronger . I will feel whites are not free. Until g liberated life. Followtng This destruction of peoples' insides all this in the face of the tremen- rather than genuine human caring • fixed in ferret focus ates misremembered • modest. To some degree most of us Freedom lets us know, enjoy, and less and less the need to bolster my allowed by our so graduation we may continue white, which Iam calling menta1 violence dous needs of the elderly, the poor, and contact. gave F's for dangling 010 • short-change ourselves both in express the fact that we are unique insecurity by putting others down. they are we straights are not free. ma1e, heterosexua1 put downs of all goes hand in hand with societys', and the institutionalized. We spend obvious • lines forgot • conversation with others and in our and beautiful expressions of life. As a person seeking liberation I Until women are no longer In the who are different or we may begin physical violence. all that money on war while most Perhaps of student violence is our • but passed on polackfag r jokes • private thoughts. We pay attention To be liberated is to celebrate your will assert my identity by af- bondage as sex objects we men are most living the realization tha~ of the world's people are hungry. symptom • on chinkandhickanhum s to our faults and ignore our riches. 'you-ness'. Do it! And because your firming and enhancing' the lives of not free. • my own whenever we put anyone down we The same hand in hand What's the point? Can we be proud campus' overwhelming apathy • eyeball-fondled legs of f girls • Constant role playing in our 'you-ness' is beautiful you won't others and I will enhance life by learning put ourselves down as well. During relationship is found in the ways of these pr-iorities? Compari?g aU toward social issues in this soctetv • removed the chickweed gimlet lawn. • • relattonshtps is interpersonal need to filter out much of its different. from those who are Let's begin ... exaression. genuine Easter - Overcome By' Life by Ira Zepp • The ovens Nibelungenlieds rverse lips • Homosexuality and WMC Violence by John • • of Auschwitz. Weigold round • • Easter is a vivid reminder that Trident submarine, the B·l bomber to initiate and enforce an af· biochemic8l warfare: We can say • and he researched on De helves • Violence and oppression are ask for your sympathy. We do not Maryland realize just how straights. It simply demonstrates The Lord saw to • death is a1ways overcome by. life. and Pentagon over-kill. How many firmative action program. with Tom Dooley (dying at age34), what is the good extant realities on the Western entreat your understanding and debilitating it can be to a that gays have sufficient means to Christian resurrection is a symbol times can we destroy the world~ He comes to a dormitory in "The cancer scar went no deeper while diagramming thou • Maryland College Campus. They compassion. We demand homosexual to hear a casuaUy combat that violence - perhaps summer.' .. . of God's victory over the forces of Fifty~ But it is five times less than which racist, sexist and ethnic than my flesh. in my • in wondrous subdivides. • have been consistently and suc- acknowledgement, and we demand dropped "faggot." Of course, there even to change it. ' injustice and evil. It is a vin- the Russian capability. TIlis is epithets are hurled without regard that. There was no cancer • And those who sat in ro ut response • cessfully brushed aside, ignored, to be and to function, as we are, are those paragons of macho . Asia. As Camus said, 'In • dication of Jesus' life, a way of what we mean by the worship OJ for _the human shreds that are left spirit. As long as I have tife, I will who tongued the tests h hidden behind elaborate facades, within the super-structure of this masculinity who have attained The students on this campus I found within • ;aying to him, "It was all right that death. lying around nor for the p:?ychic give it to the poor and needy in scurried through wind w • and trapped beneath a barrage of institution. As a male homosexual unto this level of consciousness, have directed at gays some very you came from, lived among and damage that is done to IxtUr the southeast of a distant sudden heli • self-righteousness and faithlessly on this campus, I am a member of and who use their verbal weapon in memorable acts of violence. One, blessed the poor. It was all right He comes to the West, this clown speaker and the hearer. the midst of winter, • . and napalmed babies in • smiling faces. However, the mask the more extensive "invisible a relentless effort to continually of which I have a vivid recollec- that you lived non·violently and on a donkey, and asks the multi- Since he persists in coming, we me an invincible " My Lai Shangri-Las scovered • of friendly ambiance, of which this minority," and I speak in behalf of reaffirm their heterosexual tion; is the suggestion for a Second loved so much. It was a11right that national corporations what right can share his presence and • arranging them first in r • college is so proud, can not forever this group as a whole. However, superiority. Whether conscious or Spring course offering: "How to you championed the rights of the they have to sap the life and energy respond to him as he leads us from So, let us dance our death away, • Centres will !lot hold fo e had done. conceal the reality of some of my statements are biased; unconscious, the use of such reconize (sic) faggots and ge of the • oppressed and called them to of the third and fourth words for the tombs of Eygyptian bondage, our personal and institutional lover Yeats • discrimination which it harbours. Ican not rightfully speak in behalf destructive terms is a form of of them." I w~mly applaud the By doing so, • liberation." The life of love was the benefit of the first and second, th.e tombs of racist death, the death, justas the Jews in Anatevka nor for the twisted kne adway Joe lines • This superficial mask must be torn of gay women, bisexuals and gay violence. person who had the gall, yes, the vindicated! PoliticiaDs (Pilate) how before the court of justice and tombs of sexist suicide and the danced in the presence things fall apart and Pru itter in alumni • away in order to expose and make men who wish to retain their outright temerity to write in and priests (Caiaphas) do not have mercy thls economic imperialism tombs of militaristic idols, as he Cossacks' programs. own • wearing sharpshot ribbo old degrees. vulnerable to change the many anonymity -- I am "other" than Equally violent is the response: "They can't spell." the last word. And if we lose this is justified. was led from his own tomb to we will anticipate our • • layers of violence that lie em· they. Nevertheless, the degree of mythicizing of homosexuals. perspective, we may be over- He comes to a community full of LIFE. liberation and resurrection. As • The wind blows parts wi • bedded beneath it. Western consimilarity between my per_ Heterosexuals, in their ••••••••••• whelmed by the power of death church spires and asks why the to wholeness unimagine • Maryland's WASPish majority sonal situation and that of the homophobia (a term used by Dr. which seems so ubiquitous and federal government had to prevent fo;!~. ~eti~:t~~i~~ ~::n=~ . ~~:r~I;g~~~ c~~~!::~ !~U::r~ day, • • must be made aware of its op- whole is sufficient to justify my Franklin Kameny, Gay you this at against to witness suffocating their zoning boards from Williams' line from Camino Real, that I have set before you life and • 11le best of us return fr • pressiveness, of the manner in proposa1 that gays on this campus Liberationist, in his lecture last ••••••• eliminating people of color and low "The violets on the mountains are • ast Rand R which it violates the dignity of both have been violated, that is to say, Western Maryland College Holy week reminds us that Jesm' income from their community. He breaking the rocks." We can death, bleSSing and curse; • and carve in still-white ked woodstuff • its oppressed victims and itself. they have been the object of con- Spring), have contrived many entered Jerusalem (over which hi comes toa college and asks why, in support the Quakers' desire to therefore choose life, that you and our opening • However, it must first be made siderable violence. myths of homosexuality as a Announcing ... had wept often, as Jeremiah hac the face of professing humane and plant· a tree inside Edgewood your descendents may live." • to violate is • conscious of its victims and of the means of oppressing gays, among a gathering before him). a city with an a1mosl human idea1s, the government has Arsenal to protest the production of CHRIST' IS RISEN! L'CHAIIM!! • with necessary footnote, ely affixed • very actuality of their vic- them: the myth that aU a march congenital aversion to critics, • reading in boredom out • timization. Who are the objects of This violence is not, at least to homosexuals are in some way sick a burial in forms manifest stoning the prophets and • we raped ollly·slant-eye campus violence~ To be sure, the my knowledge, brutality; gays on this or perverted, the myth that all a planting of physical assaSSinating those who refused to On Sexual Liberation by Sandy MacKenzie never hoping to match h • existence of racial minorities and homosexuals are promiscuous and these beginnings accommodate themselves to its the • subtle expertise. • of the minority of women is easily campus are not subject to the sort the myth that all homosexuals will won.'t change the earth that Vic of phYSical persecution model of a citizen. Women and men of Western Md. repress a person's sensitivity, with this is how you feel about • • cognized due to the visibility of continually lust after the bodies of or even this school contact people making Jesus' entered a politica1 and College - you are scaring me. Many low lights to inhibit vision, loud with, then how do you feel about • Jefferson was college ho • their groups. And, because. of the Eremita so vividly portrays in his their heterosexual roommates. It but at least you are However, in this story~ social center of power. It is a of you have not learned and are not music to restrict talking and • . and, in our day, were D James but John very visibility of their "other- "Soap" the illusive Mr. Eremita, is obvious that such mythicizing is we all may make "Soap", reality we know weU--systemic trying to learn how to deal with listening an.cllarge amounts of beer yourseU~ If you don't respect and Erlich halder men prong • ness," these minorities are just as a reaction to fear, in this case, to a our committment violence, institutional racism and each other as socia1-sexl~al human to blur one's thinking. When you yourself, how can you expect • converting us on some s Bing AC-DC • easily violated, deprived of those who is-so often criticize