Gay Apartheid

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Alex

Remember a while back when we had a discussion about how you were making a joke so often that people began to assume it was the truth of your position?

The "joke" that right wingers are generally idiotic or evil is made so often around here I don't really care if anyone pretends an individual instance of it is meant as a joke. I have hardly any doubt that it is widely considered to be essentially true.

Agreed.

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Yes, rabid, as used by me, means frothing at the mouth. If what comes out of their mouth is or resembles mad-dog froth, that's what I mean by rabid.

So...either your statement applies to basically no one (because basically no one literally froths at the mouth unless they have some sort of medical problem) or it applies to whomever you deem to be "rabid", which sounds rather subjective to me.

If I say "all jerks are jerks" it's not too hard to say that makes sense. If I say "everyone who agree that gay people are evil are ignorant morons" I am giving an exact frame of reference. If I say "all people that say right-wing things to degree x are ignorant morons" leaves x vague and definitely qualifies as a broad-brush, all-or-nothing, us-against-them, hatred and prejudice filled statement.

Whether or not you know any right-wingers (and you DO) painting any group as this or that undermines you. It bears repeating.

I'd like to clarify that I'm not speaking just to iSm, but to JW and anyone else who wants to post hatred-filled bias (and yes, there are plenty among us, including myself, who needs reminding often).

This, I truly believe: There is no solution to our problems, to our divided country, and to the basic ongoing epic struggles humans have faced for all of our existence that involves demonizing the opposition.

You are hurting your reputation, you are hurting your own cause, and you are hurting humankind.

You may call it hyperbole. I do not. Solutions do not begin at the top. They begin at the bottom, in every day conversation, in the small things we repeat to ourselves and to each other.