The LGBT thread (Revisited)

[Runa216]

curl-6 said:

Runa216 said:

Ah yes, the vocal minority. The last, dwindling numbers of true bigots that have realized their battle with progress is lost and must find a wholly new ground to fight on: False logic and conjured excuses. Rather than outright claim things like 'the gay lifestyle is ruining the culture' or 'it destroys the sanctity of marriage', they complain about people 'pushing an SJW agenda' or how inclusion is actually exclusion for white dudes. 

I hate people, sometimes. I really, really do. The lengths people will go to justify their bigotry is just astoundingly baffling. 

Given how much bigotry pisses me off as a straight white dude (a lot) I can only imagine what it's like for LGBT people and folks of colour. 

But yeah, it gives me hope to remember that these people really are on the losing side in the long run; progress always wins in the end, resistance only delays the inevitable. I mean, look at how far we've come in the last fifty years. Being openly gay was one of the ultimate taboos back then, yet now we have same sex marriage enshrined in law. I hope I don't sound patronizing in saying so, but as painfully slow as the process is, we are slowly becoming a more empathetic and compassionate society, I feel.

It's just that, as you say, those on the losing side are getting louder now they know they're losing.

I would love to make this (or a variation of this) a rallying cry for the progressive. Dismissing arguments as "You're only passionate because you know you're on the wrong side of history and don't want to be forgotten" or something like that.