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"In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance." Paradox of tolerance
"The pen is mightier than the sword.. and considerably easier to write with."
It's easier for gays to get sex. It's not fair.
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"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."
-- Capt. Copeland
Ok that sucks but it seems like you have taken that one incident and projected it onto everyone else as potential brick throwers. The world isn't as bad as that and the good, honest folk are still the majority. I'm 34 and feel that even my generation isnt this bigoted entity let alone the younger generation that has grown up with the internet and all the free information that it brings.
I really do look forward to the day that we are all just seen as humans not by race or religion or whatever but until then all the attention that is given to these issues just pushes us all back and causes even more division among us.
Ahem ... the crux of this thread is sexuality, with a dose of race. There is a reason such threads are banned, and this one should be locked.
@Darsithis you have a request to lock the thread on record. Don't get drawn in further, it is a no win situation.
With COVID-19 making its impact on our lives, I have decided that I shall hang in there for my remaining days, skip some meals, try to get children to experiment with making henna patterns on their skin, and plant some trees. You know -- live, fast, dye young, and leave a pretty copse. I feel like I may not have that quite right.
I think that at this point in time, you're very right. However, the institutions that hold up our societies are often way way behind the people of those societies. I think that is why pride events are still relevant. Individuals may be totally cool with LGBT people, and even enough of them for us to say "society" is totally cool with them, the laws, the policies, and so on reflect an earlier viewpoint and the inertia to just leave them be needs to be pushed against. Raising awareness is one aspect of that push.
Because historically and even in todays world the left, unlike the right, is very divided. There are the bernie zealots who will vote for bernie even if he stabs their mothers in the back and there are those who are afraid of trumps high %s and have moved on to Hillary who is the "safest" opinion of the 2 based on her name and prior fame.
On to the trump issue. No I am not calling trump supporters uneducated. Not all of them. But a good % of them are to some degree.
Sorry, you misunderstand my point.
This hashtag was implemented with the sole purpose of ridiculizing pride month. I believe gay pride shouldn't be a thing, but then again the homosexual community face discrimination even today - and I'm not speaking of "microagressions".
I've been told by a customer (who didn't know I was gay) that if the law was in his power, he'd make it legal to shoot gays on sight.
A group of people removed me from their circle when I told them I was gay for fear that I'd get a crush on them.
My old guild told me it was wrong and that I would grow out of it in time and I'd see why it's wrong.
My mother said that she'd remove us from the family if she ever learnt that one of us (her sons) was gay (gladly, in time, she accepted it).
These things did not happen in my head. I did not invent them. It just happened. They're real and they're why we need to have public recognition - and it's frustrating, because quite frankly I'd rather just live my life normally than having to fight for stupid things like sexuality.
Google Diversity Memo
Learn to use critical thinking: https://youtu.be/J5A5o9I7rnA
Political left, right similarly motivated to avoid rival views
[...] we have an intolerance for ideas and evidence that don’t fit a certain ideology. I’m also not saying that we should restrict people to certain gender roles; I’m advocating for quite the opposite: treat people as individuals, not as just another member of their group (tribalism)..
Who said the opinion was even voiced?
While this doesn't have to do with sexuality, in one of the gatherings that people had to mourn for the Orlando victims a BLM (black lives matter) member walked up to the stage beginning her speech with "Most of you will not understand this and have no opinion on it because you are white". The security guards proceeded to escort the gay couple that protested outside of the gathering a few minutes after because they said that she was making this a race issue when they clearly gathered there to mourn the Orlando victims and the BLM speaker exploded in a tantrum. In this case the men might have been gay but they were white so when it comes to the race issue they were the majority.
Are you sure majorities are being silenced only over stupid opinions? Because this seems pretty legitimate to me and I can totally see how it could apply to a discussion about sexuality as well.
Yet you're quick to lump the left all into a single hodgepodge of morons that will say things like "straight opinions don't matter"... which the only people saying that are Tumblr teenagers and extreme left niche websites. If you can find me one mainstream "left" website (and not just a website you disagree with) then I'll concede.
Was there. really?
lol
I guess you find someone for everything to be removed nowadays on the internet.
But to showcase my logic,
nothing says hetero more than "hey, I made a child".
Though, I've to say, we Germans celebrate fathers day very different from the Americans.
We grab 3 - 4 buddies, put a 30 liter beer keg on a cart, and off we walk into the outdoors, til the keg is empty and the woman has to come and pick our drunk asses up to haul us back home lol
"The pen is mightier than the sword.. and considerably easier to write with."
It's pretty obvious the tweets are meant to mock than be genuine.
As for your post, I definitely understand the feeling when someone tells you you're something you're not. I'm sorry someone ever treated you that way. I think it's personally disgusting when gay men chase straight men or tell them they're really gay, but they haven't discovered it yet. The difference is that stuff is on a personal, local level. It's stupid, but you can walk away from a moron who does that to you. I can't walk away from laws engineered to discriminate against me quite so easily.