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unwantedplatypus
Sep 6, 2012
So this is what it feels like to read about a hate crime being committed against people like you :smith:

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unwantedplatypus
Sep 6, 2012

the moose posted:

Was in a gay bar last night after visiting the Philly trans health conference and being in the dyke march.

Did you hold back the flood waters? :ohdear:

unwantedplatypus
Sep 6, 2012

LORD OF BOOTY posted:

what do you think I was saying with this sentence, because the intended meaning is "next time anything remotely similar to this happens, we start beating the gently caress out of straight cis people, regardless of race or religion." or poo poo, don't even wait for a next time, do it now.

I'm not buying the radical-Islam explanation, this is just straight-up homophobia at work. and as long as we're viewed as weak by these types, this'll keep happening. so we need to get better at their game than they are.

(again, I'm probably kneejerking. I literally just got out of bed and saw this poo poo. but I'm angry as all hell about it.)

1) It's morally wrong to use violence to send a message

2) We're a small minority lol if you think we'd win in violent confrontation

3) The correct solution is to get pissed and channel that anger into activism and protest.

unwantedplatypus
Sep 6, 2012
Something could happen to Muslims because they're already a minority distrusted by the General population. It's important to separate Islamic scripture and teaching, from Muslim people. Was the shooter influenced by Islam? Probably. was this the work of the Islamic community in Orlando? No

unwantedplatypus
Sep 6, 2012

Badger of Basra posted:

They hate us for our freedoms.

What freedoms?

Oh, right, the freedom to be gay

unwantedplatypus
Sep 6, 2012
Excuse me as I roll my eyes at the dogpile of the "straight, ignorant berniebro"

Anyway, that story from Russia is pretty loving terrifying. Where are we safe? Not in the east, apparently not in the west either. Not in our homes, not in clubs.

There are people out there who I don't even know who wish for my death, that's a scary thought.

unwantedplatypus
Sep 6, 2012

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

Holy poo poo. A week ago, 49 people were murdered in cold blood in the worst mass shooting in American history and people are getting all bent out of sorts about an rear end in a top hat on the internet?

Stop making GBS threads up this thread and if you want to yell at me do it over PM.

gently caress you

unwantedplatypus
Sep 6, 2012

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

You're right and I apologize for that.

I tone that gently caress you down to "You're still kind of an rear end"

unwantedplatypus
Sep 6, 2012
The argument that marriage has baggage doesn't really hold up. Marriage is heavily inter-twined with the idea of a mutually beneficial, consensual, relationship in the west. It's historical meanings and implementations, while not utterly irrelevant, do not have much bearing on how the word is used today.

unwantedplatypus
Sep 6, 2012
Where's Alaric when you need him?

unwantedplatypus
Sep 6, 2012

Baka-nin posted:

Last week the Tynwald the parliament Isle of Man and oldest parliament in the world legalised same sex marriage. http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/steffan-cowell-gay-isle-man/#gs.hjKuDtI
They also allowed hetero couples to get civil partnerships which is a first for the region.

Isle of Man now Isle of Men

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unwantedplatypus
Sep 6, 2012
I like socialism but I also like equal rights what does that make me?

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