At 12/22/10 07:01 PM, HappyMango wrote:
Am i wrong? its a comparison how this country will allow good people to be killed defending the country, but are fucked over by that same country, even given their deeds. and i saw more dark red than anything else in that link. sure perhaps comparing it to black slavery is a tad ex centric, i stand by the idea that those who fight for us should have the same rights as everyone else
Do I believe the GLBTQ community should have the same rights as heterosexuals? Yes. Do I believe the best way to do this is acting over the top and eccentric? No. If you want things to change, you make friends. Not only in high places, but in low places and middle places. If you don't have a majority group that agrees with you, then those states will stay red. So when you're making a post like that, you're doing one of two things:
1. You are preaching to the choir. Duh we want this shit to change. Of course we want America to have nation-wide unbanning of homosexual marriage, even non-Americans who recognise that America has a lot of influence in other countries like England and Canada (as much as you hate to admit it). This is mostly GLBTQ community, since it takes an element of fanaticism to follow with you.
2. You are acting like an obnoxious retard. You see those Jews that prevented a game from being released because they felt it was too "touchy" because it was about an event based over 60 years ago; even though you're on the good side, the Jews. That was generally obnoxious. Did you remember those American-Italians who got emotional over Mafia 2, whining about how "OH THAT DOESN'T PORTRAY US IN A GOOD LIGHT, WHAT THE FUCK? SO UNFAIR!" despite Mafia games being based loosely around true events (and by loosely, I mean back in the 1920s at least 90% of the Mafia were Italian-American). That was obnoxious too, wouldn't you agree? Now, it may be hard to see how obnoxious it is to straight people since you and I aren't, but when you're acting eccentric, it's obnoxious. It kills credibility to the group. I'm not sure about you, but I'd rather hear about how a group is oppressed as close to factually as possible than to hear over-the-top statements and I would put money on it that they would like to hear it too. While, as Harvey Milk put it, politics is like acting in a theatre, gaining support to get to that stage isn't. To get to that stage, you need at least an element of propaganda. You need to convince the masses who disagree with you that their view is wrong and yours is right. You need to discredit your opponents and make them seem like neo-heretics and old-fashioned. Some doors are opened at a kind word and the password, others need to be opened with a mob and something to ram it down with.