elanshof wrote: I"m going to oversimplify here, so bear with me.
You did oversimplify, and i am bearing with you.
However, you analogy is a tad flawed in one respect. Save the whales doesn't minimize anyone; black/gay/Muslim/whatever lives matter does, because regardless of whatever minority you are defending, it comes across to other people as trying to impose a guilt trip. Look, when the black Lives Matter movement started up, who did they start guilt tripping on? The bigots? The racists? The haters? No, they started up on white people in general with an emphasis on liberals i n particular. Liberals; the people who are already on their side trying to make things better. Alienating your best allies is NOT the way to promote your argument!
Now, look at Waturu's post. Did he focus on the person least likely here to be sympathetic to gays (I'm not naming names but we all know who I am talking about!)? No, he picked on Frank Burns, whose post was perfectly innocuous in and of itself. He pointed out that not all victims were gays! That's all he did. Big deal! So what? He's likely right. How does what he said denigrate gays or minimize the tragedy in any way, shape or form?
It doesn't!!! So why are you (and from here on I am addressing Waturu
not elanshof) singling
him out?
About fifty people have died; over fifty more were injured (some so badly they may die too). Regardless of who was targeted and why, those people died for no good reason.
I get it; gays are persecuted. So are pedophiles. Not just those who have actually committed crimes; all pedophiles are persecuted WAY worse than gays. I should know; I
am one.
Oh, I don't have any sexual desire for children (or anyone particularly) but i fantasize about boys tying me up and sitting on me all the time, and sometimes sexual elements involving my being humiliated, degraded, or even raped orally creep into those fantasies. To most peoples' minds these days that makes me a pedphile. I have committed no crimes, but I am sure that wouldn't matter to most people who knew about my fantasies.
Now, if
I had been shot by someone because I was a (however non-practicing) pedophile do you think anyone would be weeping for me? Would
you?!
Be honest! A lot of people and not just those asshat preachers we mentioned before would celebrate and say "Good Riddance to bad rubbish." Because minimizing people cursed with pedophilia is still perfectly socially acceptable. That it is no more a matter of choice than anyone's sexual orientation doesn't enter the picture. People like me are almost universally despised and shunned.
So kindly do not talk to me like I don't know what it would be to be the victim of gay discrimination. I know it a hell of a lot better than
you do!
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