By Steve Sailer
04/18/2022
Gay playwright Tony Kushner, fresh from wrecking Steven Spielbergâs remake of West Side Story with his talky, annoying screenplay (that no doubt encouraged a high proportion of the several thousand people who saw it in movie theaters to mutter, âShut up and singâ), is falling behind the progressive curve:
Tony Kushner on the Republican âFantasyâ of a Nation Controlled by âStraight White Menâ
April 18, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET
From Gov. Ron DeSantis signing Floridaâs so-called Donât Say Gay bill to Gov. Greg Abbott issuing a Texas directive that would classify medical care for transgender adolescents as âchild abuse,â Republicans across the country seem to be doubling down on anti-L.G.B.T.Q. policies. Their argument? Itâs about âparental rights.â But the playwright Tony Kushner has seen this kind of battle play out before. His âAngels in Americaâ hit two-part play examined the AIDS epidemic and L.G.B.T.Q. life in the United States. And Kushner says this new wave of legislation is just the latest incarnation of a clampdown on rights under the conservative âfantasyâ of a nation under âexclusive control by white straight men.â
But thatâs no longer deemed to be a fantasy. Instead, according to Kendi and Coates and the infallible Theory of Systemic Racism, thatâs a reality. Hasnât Kushner ever heard of redlining? (Donât ask: he probably wrote a fifteen-minute discussion of redlining for West Side Story.)