Kit Malone
Smaller Pride events in #Indiana have always attracted some protest - typically local church folk who think they are out "preaching to the unsaved."
This year, they've gotten measurably darker. I'm hearing more slurs and threats.
Recently I worked a festival that was circled for hours by a man with AR-15
& full battle-rattle, calling us pedos and child mutilators.
This alarming escalation is due to increasingly vicious anti-#LGBTQ political posturing.
People are following their leaders.
Ardainian Hebrew Israelite
Kit Malone
@mahaska LGBTQ folk and homeless people are often the same people. They aren't separate sets of people.
Occupy Journey 🐧🇺🇲♒🌎
@thekitmalone they have had a lot of practice on homeless people to find out how to do it against everyone
Kit Malone
Oh, one more every here:
It should alarm all of us how easy it was to get them to move from a public pose of "love the sinner, hate the sin" to "it is our civic duty to eliminate these groomers"
It only took about a year for that to become acceptable, mainstream discourse.
All it took was the sports issue to crack it open, radicalize a few prominent figures, and now we're investigating parents for having trans kids and running on the idea of eliminating us from public life.
Kit Malone
And back then, I (naturally) drew the wrong conclusion: that these were mostly harmless idiots with a bad plan.
Now I understand that I was wrong - because I presumed they were honest about their goal.
But I see now the goal never was about changing minds. Their goal was *always* to make sure that queer people felt nervous and unwelcome. But, formerly, with a veneer of respectable concern for their souls.
All they've done, recently, is just pull off that veneer.
Kit Malone
In my more naive, younger days I used to ask the annual Pride protestors a couple of questions. Not a debate question, or any kind of gotcha.
I'd just ask, "What is your goal here?" And they'd usually say something vague about making sure people know about Jesus and sin and forgiveness, yadayada.
And then I'd followup with, "Do you think this is an effective means of achieving that goal?"
nmw their answer was, you could always tell that they hadn't really thought about it in those terms.
Kit Malone
If you tell people that your enemy is mutilating kids, it hardly matters if that's true or not.
A certain percentage of people are gonna believe you, and because they believe you -- a certain percentage of *them* are going to feel comfortable using any imaginable level of violence to stop what they think of as a credible threat.
When we talk about "stochastic terrorism" as one of the products of hate speech, this is what we mean.
Ardainian Hebrew Israelite
Jjetty :sonnenrad: :nv:
@thekitmalone You may not believe it, but you were right in assuming your opponents were harmless and ignorant. You were right to assume they were “honest about their goal” because had any of them known what kind of monsters they were dealing with I guarantee you they would have been twice as hostile then as we all are now.
Let me be clear, the hate you get is hate that you all earned. You earned the hate when you decided to attack people over pronouns. You earned the hate when you decided to go after children. You earned the hate when you decided that all the rules set by society for thousands of years no longer apply.
Now there are at least two young generations who are being abused by you and others in your corner and when they grow up they’re gonna show you first hand why a man who chose to shoot his mouth off at you instead of his rifle is the least of your concerns.
Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks
@thekitmalone “After years of being utterly insufferable, people are imitating their leaders in learning to hate me”
For REAL? This is something I really loathe about your kind, you’re such insecure, rootless followers you imagine we’re all just like you, looking to others for guidance and copying bigger, more popular people to gain the approval of other retards (like you, a retard).
All the dislike you see in our eyes is your own manufacture, it’s the end result of you pushing the bounds in a constant, neverending march. I remember the school debates about gay marriage, you got the judges to force that through and went on a warpath since. Everything people enjoy is subsumed into your gayness, drowned in it. There’s no escape from the lecturing, nagging, and sanctimonious babbling of ugly, lumpy, foul looking weirdos telling us they’re the height of beauty and goodness - and destroying our lives should we dare say the truth aloud.
Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks
@thekitmalone If you want something to REALLY worry about, worry about the guys like me, somewhere in the economy, nudging and pushing things to topple you from your place as the system’s newest pet. It’s small, but it’s been easier than ever to convince our leadership to divert our charity efforts away from groups included in that eyesore of a flag you all love so much.
You’ll see support wane in smaller sectors, see less free money, less charity, fewer scholarships, and rainbow-free homepages every june. That’s the result of overstaying your welcome. You can only break down the door and shit on the carpet for so long before sane people install a deadbolt.
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