LGBT rights in the USA today...

[ApatheticNoMore]

Bisexuality is probably more natural than heterosexuality, which is much more just a social convention that has been considered until recently the way one should be. The young people especially they are finding themselves. Now that's sexuality not gender, the gender stuff I do find confusing.

[iris lilies]

Bisexuality is probably more natural than heterosexuality, which is much more just a social convention that has been considered until recently the way one should be. The young people especially they are finding themselves. Now that's sexuality not gender, the gender stuff I do find confusing.

Both of them are likely on a spectrum.

[JaneV2.0]

Wasn’t it Alex Jones who ranted about chemicals in the water turning the damn frogs gay?

A lot of sane people think environmental toxins are affecting amphibians:
https://news.berkeley.edu/2010/03/01/frogs/

[jp1]

Are we truly in a period of peak LGBT hatred compared to twenty or fifty years ago, or are we just magnifying every marginal wingnut through the internet funhouse mirror? Is the average American of 2022 less tolerant of sexual outliers than the average American of 1972?

Violence against the innocent is wrong, but this whole theory of hatred absorbed from the cultural ether also strikes me as wrong. There is no person or organization I trust to determine what expression is too dangerous to allow.

Who said we were at the point of peak LGBTQ hatred?

Correct me if I’m wrong but when I read your post I read ‘LGBTQ people just need to sit down and shut up because things used to be a lot worse.’

[LDAHL]

Who said we were at the point of peak LGBTQ hatred?

Correct me if I’m wrong but when I read your post I read ‘LGBTQ people just need to sit down and shut up because things used to be a lot worse.’

Not at all. I just think blaming what some people do on what other people say is becoming a reflex response similar to “thoughts and prayers”.

[jp1]

And I think that pretending that words never inspire actions is incredibly naive.

[Alan]

And I think that pretending that words never inspire actions is incredibly naive.

Does that mean that we should start moderating your frequent claims that Republicans and or those against mandatory mask or vaccine requirements want to kill people? Should we take steps now to prevent the site from being accused of harboring and encouraging stochastic terrorism?

[ApatheticNoMore]

Does that mean that we should start moderating your frequent claims that Republicans and or those against mandatory mask or vaccine requirements want to kill people? Should we take steps now to prevent the site from being accused of harboring and encouraging stochastic terrorism?

Well there has never been any such terrorism, but sure we should put hypothetical things that have never happened, in the same realm as hate crimes that actually have. Or maybe not.

[LDAHL]

And I think that pretending that words never inspire actions is incredibly naive.

I think that pretending that any given act of violence is the consequence of words spoken by people you don’t like is incredibly disingenuous.

[frugal-one]

I think that pretending that any given act of violence is the consequence of words spoken by people you don’t like is incredibly disingenuous.

In this case, you shouldn’t try thinking.