Thread: One Town's War on Gay Teens

Originally Posted by Hippocrass

no.
If I choose to join the KKK does give me a right to lynch black people?
After all it's not my fault the KKK hates black people enough to kill them, you're just a bigot

strawman fallacy.
Everyone recognizes that the most basic concept of rights means that yours end where mine begin.
Thus, anything that infringes on the rights of another is not a right. It's not that difficult of a concept.

Anyway, no, but you have the right to join and feel what you will.

Somebody ban him for trolling? Because it has to be trolling, it really does.

What are you talking about? I'm discussing why those who try to relate the LGBT movement to civil rights movements centered around racism are wrong, and why it cheapens the victories gay teens in America have fought so hard for. The kids in that town deserve to be respected and treated well because they're human beings with rights, not because some ill advised supporter of their movement tried to take the easy way and piggy back the issue onto racism. It seems to me you're just another pants on head, consensus needing ignoramus with no real critical thinking skills.

Originally Posted by Mad Pino Rage

But they don't have the right to discriminate if it infringes on someone's rights, right? I don't remember seeing racism mentioned in the article in correlation to the LGBT group's treatment. They're just being discriminated by ideologic ignoramuses thanks to the misguided influence of religion and Sarah Palin's fervor.

No, they don't have the right to discriminate against them. Where are you even coming from?
You should probably work on your reading comprehension.

Originally Posted by simonj

Are you completely stupid or just trying to make some weird point that isn't coming across? Of course the kids in that town deserve to be treated as human beings because they're human beings. That is also why black people etc. deserve to be treated as human beings. How can you not see how it's similar to civil rights issues?

Let me spell it out for you:

Not defending something based on its own intrinsic value, and attempting to use other issues to validate what you're defending is bad. it's no no.


Also, everyone knows that there is a high incidence of homosexual discrimination within the black community, so for you to say that is just extremely insensitive.

Originally Posted by coqauvin

or they're drawing a relatively accurate parallel between symptoms in both cases

one time i was discriminated against because i didn't have the money to buy a sandwich.

he was letting the people with money buy sandwiches, but just because i was born without money, he was discriminating me!!!! i didn't choose to be poor!!!!!!1111