Gay Apartheid

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by JWBear

And, as to your "Lets all get along" stance... Bullshyt. I will not stand by silently and let these people spew their hatred and bile. Decent people need to stand up and say "no! Enough!".

Then you're part of the problem too.

Have fun with your extremist war against extremists.

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

Then you're part of the problem too.

Have fun with your extremist war against extremists.

Extreme?! You have got to be kidding lady! So, calling out the right-wing lunacy is "extreme" in your book? Should we all have just shut up and sat on our hands when Prop 8 passed? According to you, speaking out and protesting were "extreme". Should civil rights never have been passed in this country? Protesting the treatment of blacks and other minorities.. was that "extreme" too? Perhaps we shouldn't have fought that "extreme" civil war. Or become independant from Britain. Talk about "extreme"!

You can sit idly by and do nothing while the lies are repeated over and over. Cover your eyes when the violence erupt. Fine, go right ahead; it's your right. But please do not attact those of us who are standing up for what's right.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Call out lunacy. Post about specific stupidity. Work to fight against ignorance.

I'm with you.

But when you say "all blanks are blank", you have lost me, and most other people too.

As for "this is the LoT", this is why I care, and why I'm still talking to you and others. We were both there, Steve, when we helped design the LoT. It's my baby as much as it is yours and I care about what goes on here.

Many times when I go head to head with someone who disagrees with me, I get PMs from sympathetic souls who say "just put them on ignore". I do not use ignore. The reason being, I would rather call people on their ugly sh.t than let it continue on the LoT.

Originally Posted by JWBear

I will not stand by silently and let these people spew their hatred and bile. Decent people need to stand up and say "no! Enough!".

This is exactly what I'm saying. When you (yes you, friends of mine) post hatred and bile, I will stand up and say no, enough.

I'm sorry guys, but you can call me "PC" all you want, but when I see crap like this, I'm going to mention it. I have gotten enough mojo for my posts to know that I'm not alone in this, either, even if others aren't able to join the fray publicly. This is what advocacy is all about.

And again - I know I am guilty of this as well, and I hope that someone else would have the courage to call me out for it.