Indiana Governer signs bill allowing businesses to reject gay customers.

[Runa216]

sc94597 said:

Runa216 said:

Good for you.  And I'm making the point the sky looks blue most of the time.  

Congratulations on making a broad statement of a point that nobody is debating against. 

My issue with your post (and other posts of yours) was that it was marginalizing (whether intentionally or not) the issue of anti-LGBT people and racist people in your country while conflating it as an American problem. Saying things like, in Canada we are more accepting than some Americans doesn't help the Canadians who are beaten or murdered for their sexual orientation and/or race. Possibly you can focus on your own country and the problems you have there with race and sexuality before trying to judge a whole different country for having the very same problems, you know, just at a more noticeable scale because the population is ten times greater and the media presence is much larger. Just because you don't hear about it in Canada doesn't mean it isn't there.

For example, here is an interesting article from 2014 about how anti-gay hate crimes are 2/3rds likely to be violent rather than purely michevious in Canada. 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/gay-hate-crimes-far-more-likely-to-involve-violence-statscan-says/article19350604/

"Police reported 1,414 hate-motivated criminal incidents in 2012, up 82 from the previous year, Statistics Canada said in its latest report on hate crimes."

1414/35 million = 4/10,000 people experience a hate crime. 

Meanwhile in the United States. 

"Agencies last year reported 5,796 hate crime incidents involving 6,718 offenses. The FBI has just released its hate crime statistics report for 2012, and the numbers show that we as a nation still have a way to go toward alleviating these crimes that have such a devastating impact on communities."

 

6718/314 million = 2/10,000 people experience a hate crime. 

I thought you said you weren't going to respond anymore.