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Gay people can simply pretend to be straight to avoid harrassment or discrimination. Blacks get discriminated against even if they are wealthy and dress "respectably". Black people in the US absolutely face the worst treatment from law enforcement and the criminal justice system. Look at this crap "stop and frisk" law from supposedly liberal NYC. The entire "war on drugs" was set up to imprison poor blacks. Black communities get intentionally divided in redistricting schemes across the country to dilute their political power and get denied voting rights more often. There is still widespread discrimination in the housing market against black people and neighborhoods still use a variety of tactics to keep black people out.
Gay people might face more personal prejudice in certain parts of the country, but institutionally, black people in the US are definitely the biggest targets. Besides, a lot of out gay men are rich and white, so other than the marriage thing, they are way better off.
Your post is a perfect example of how white heterosexual males are not accepted. Instead of treating as us individuals, you place us in a monolithic block and cast negative aspersions upon us based upon the actions of long dead men who we have never met.
The fact is that white heterosexual males are systematically being eradicated.
If it was any other demographic, it would be called genocide.
No, actually it isn't. My post was pointing out that straight white males AS A WHOLE have never had to worry about their group not being accepted (which is what this thread is about, right?), and they've haven't had to suffer or fight for rights and privileges the same way as other groups have. For the longest time, straight white males:
- Had the right to vote longer than anyone else
- Had more power and control in government longer than anyone else
- Had more wealth and prosperity longer than anyone else
- Had more freedom here longer than anyone else
- Never had to worry about their marriage or ideas of marriage questioned and denied by law
- Were (and STILL are) the primary decision makers in this country.
So please, spare me your pathetic Sean Hannity rhetoric.
It's ironic that directly after your whining you call someone else's point of view pathetic rhetoric. Pot, meet kettle.
It's not really enforced, but it's still there and nobody is doing anything about it.
Gays have the hardest time for sure... I don't think the majority of people feel entirely comfortable voicing sanctimonious disgust over blacks or immigrants.
Do you even know what sodomy is?
If so, why do you feel that it's a law against being gay?
blacks... you can even read on this board some of the comments people write and they dont even realize that what they said was some offensive ish
i am smart enough to understand that people form opinions based on THEIR life experience... if the one time you interacted with a black person and it was a bad experience then you tend to feel some type of way...
"immigrants" does not equal "illegal aliens" (some try to use the terms interchangeably on the slick)
noone cares that gays are gay other than gays... too many gays want to flaunt that they are gay to everyone like its some great accomplishment...noone cares, congrats now keep it moving
if being accepted is about the federal govt cosigning the word marriage, then you dont really have a plight...the fed gov doesnt stop you from loving or sleeping with the same sex as far as i know
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