LadyEllen -> RE: Prop 8 ruling makes me wanna kill people... (5/27/2009 2:13:37 PM)
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ORIGINAL: DreamGoddess666 Why shouldn't the two be compared? They ARE alike! Or do blacks think they had it worse or something? Sorry, but no. We have it just as bad as they did. Arguably worse given that we still have these problems in a more liberal society that has done nothing for us for the most part. What?????????????? You do remember that little problem we had a few years ago when we kidnapped people from their homes, shipped them as cargo halfway around the world, and put them in chains to pick cotton? Actually, the slave trade worked solely because some of the local tribes rounded up members of other tribes to sell to the Europeans - who incidentally represented new customers for a long thriving industry previously patronised by Arabs and other African tribes. But I have to disagree that somehow LGBT people have it more difficult than black people, or ever had it more difficult. We do not walk the world clearly marked out to all and sundry (unless we choose to be) so that those who feel us less worthy may bring their dislike to bear. Its only if we break cover that we experience that exposure and risk. It is perhaps because of the obviousness of the existence of black people and so our common ability to recognise immediately the problem once we acknowledge it, of their day to day lives, that change has already been so long underway. But change is coming - it is now irresistible, and despite that black voters may have contributed to the reason for this thread, it is in the end them that we have to thank that change for us has ever been so much as considered, let alone that so much change has been accomplished to date. If the civil rights movement had never been or had failed, we'd be where we were in the 1950s still - thrown in gaol and/or "treated" with "aversion therapies" for not conforming to some imagined ideal. E
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