Friday, October 24, 2014

Racism Still A Huge Issue, But What About Bias Towards Homosexuality?

I still see a lot of people (I assume they are gay/lesbian/transgender) putting a lot of effort, expending a lot of resources, money and energy into defending their rights to be gay and be accepted by the public.  Basically, trying to make being gay socially acceptable.  But I think they have won their battle, haven't they?  Maybe it's just the area I live in, which is New Jersey, a Blue State, a good amount of liberals, a lot of Democrats, and a lot of totally clueless people when it comes to politics, who however, do not hate gays and do not care whether gays are socially accepted or not...but they do not make any attempt to try to take rights away from gays, such as marriage, which most states are overwhelmingly in favor of allowing now.

Honestly I think racism is a far bigger problem now than the vilification of homosexuality. The country has come a long way since the 80's to the present time in accepting gays and their rights, especially marriage. It's actually pretty impressive, considering how many ignorant dumbasses (in the case of racism, sexism and hatred of homosexuality, it always seems to be the hardcore Conservative Christians who are the biggest, most violent, hypocritical, ignorant assholes of them all) there are in this country.

Basically, the gay community seems to be doing pretty well, from this (mostly uneducated on the more complex aspects of this subject) heterosexual observer, compared to the racism that many minorities still face, decades after the Civil Rights Movement and many assassinations and also things on the opposite end of the spectrum, where whites and blacks are seen together, working together and getting along.  But racism is still a much bigger problem than the problems homosexuals face on a daily basis, as a whole.

Tl;dr - Homosexuals probably have it a lot easier for the fact that they are homosexuals than minorities do for the fact that they are black/Asian/Arabic/Hispanic/etc...

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