06-03-2021, 12:22 AM
It is obvious that straight people made the majority decision on establishing LGBT rights. Much of it revolves around decencies of behavior. Gays and lesbians knew well that they could not convert straight people into homosexuals, but they could win sympathy when creeps attacked people for real or imagined homosexuality.
It's the attacks on people for imagined homosexuality that may have done more to convert straight people on LGBT rights... as in my case. I was able to tell rather conservative people -- free-enterprise true believers and fundamentalist Christians -- that
(1) homophobia was not good for business, and
(2) however much one might want to lead gays and lesbians away from the 'sin' of homosexuality, fists and baseball bats are the worst possible tools.
You could lose a desirable employee or customer to gay-bashing. An element of robbery often goes along with gay-bashing, and robbery is one of the most odious crimes to business owners. Crippled gays and lesbians (or people that fools think are such) cost tax money for medical care and disability payments. As for religion... dead people don't change their ways.
For me it is even simpler. The problem with a gay-bashing of a straight person is not that the violent fool misjudges homosexuality; we can all do that (and with me my judgment is "so what?"; it's that someone thinks (as if that were the operative word) that it is acceptable to attack people for homosexuality. It is not my responsibility to satisfy some one-person lynch mob that I am straight.
Law and order is essential to liberty; without it all the enumerated rights on some sheet of paper are bunk.
It may be a couple days late, but I am reminded of the Tulsa race riot
https://apnews.com/article/tulsa-race-ma...c81db9d70c
in which white people rioted against successful black people. I compare this in some ways to Kristallnacht, the infamous day of beatings, lootings, and arson against Jews unfortunate to live in the midst of a political order hostile to everything Jewish. Did the KKK have anything to do with the Tulsa riot? Definitely!
It's the attacks on people for imagined homosexuality that may have done more to convert straight people on LGBT rights... as in my case. I was able to tell rather conservative people -- free-enterprise true believers and fundamentalist Christians -- that
(1) homophobia was not good for business, and
(2) however much one might want to lead gays and lesbians away from the 'sin' of homosexuality, fists and baseball bats are the worst possible tools.
You could lose a desirable employee or customer to gay-bashing. An element of robbery often goes along with gay-bashing, and robbery is one of the most odious crimes to business owners. Crippled gays and lesbians (or people that fools think are such) cost tax money for medical care and disability payments. As for religion... dead people don't change their ways.
For me it is even simpler. The problem with a gay-bashing of a straight person is not that the violent fool misjudges homosexuality; we can all do that (and with me my judgment is "so what?"; it's that someone thinks (as if that were the operative word) that it is acceptable to attack people for homosexuality. It is not my responsibility to satisfy some one-person lynch mob that I am straight.
Law and order is essential to liberty; without it all the enumerated rights on some sheet of paper are bunk.
It may be a couple days late, but I am reminded of the Tulsa race riot
https://apnews.com/article/tulsa-race-ma...c81db9d70c
in which white people rioted against successful black people. I compare this in some ways to Kristallnacht, the infamous day of beatings, lootings, and arson against Jews unfortunate to live in the midst of a political order hostile to everything Jewish. Did the KKK have anything to do with the Tulsa riot? Definitely!
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
