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Since when have homosexuals been singled out, bound, shackled and forced to do back breaking labor? Hm, let me think here. . . . Oh wait, they haven’t! Never as a group have homosexuals been enslaved! There might have been a gay black man that was a slave but he was a slave because he was black not because he was gay. He was beaten, tortured, and abused. He watched his sisters be raped and have mulatto babies. He was sold and separated from his family. He was property, a slave, with no rights, none whatsoever simply because he was black. This was justified because after all, no sane man would purposely destroy his own property, thereby giving permission to the white slave owner to treat their African slaves in any way they wish, including rape, torture, and murder.
Sorry homosexuals, you are full of lies when you compare your plight to that of African American racism. They are not the same. You’re ancestors were not horrifically abused in such a fashion, nor were you ever abused in such a fashion. You’ve pretty much always had the right to vote, to mingle with other people, to be literate, you were treated as respectfully as the next person and had the opportunity to have good high paying jobs; you know, unless you were black, but hm, that had to do with the color of your skin not who you want to have sex with.
Any discrimination homosexuals have faced is no where near the level of discrimination that African Americans have faced. So yes, I take exception to the idea that homosexuals are being discriminated against like the blacks were. It’s apples and oranges. Both fruit, but very very different fruit.
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Hey Ruthie,
While you’re not wrong, you’re not being fair to homosexuals either.
Homosexuals may have the right to mingle with other people, but if they’re openly out, they might get beaten to a pulp and left to die for it (have you heard of Matthew Sheppard?). The idea that they are treated as respectfully as the next person is pretty much a joke (I would say the #1 favourite way of 2 men to mock each other is to use the word “faggot” – and man can it raise blood pressures). And there are people, many people, who wouldn’t hire a person if they knew that person was gay.
Although, now that I think of it, the degree of prejudice varies from place and place, and you live in a pretty liberal state, yes?
Hello Lou,
Thanks for the comment.
Of course I’ve heard of Matthew Sheppard. Have you ever heard of Jesse Dirkhising or Victoria Lindsay?
Black men call each other nigger.
I feel I am being rather fair regarding homosexuals. They are discriminated against, yes, but because of what they DO not what they look like. Is it wrong? Of course. No one should be beaten or killed or denied a job because of who they have sex with. I am simply saying that the comparison between black racism and homosexual discrimination implies that homosexual discrimination is on the same level as black racism when it is not. Homosexuals have never had to fight for the fundamental right to be recognized as human beings.
I live in California.
Actually, they have been victimized as a group. Have a good look at the Holocaust. And if the fight against Prop 8 wasn’t a fight to be recognized as human beings equal to any other human beings, I really don’t know what is.