• anonymous
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    -651 year ago

    Is being LGBT political? It’s a sad story but I don’t understand why is posted in the politics community.

    • @jeffwOP
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      861 year ago

      She wasn’t LGBTQ+. She engaged in political activism and was murdered, more or less, for that activism.

      • anonymous
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        31 year ago

        Thanks for the clarification. Also, why does everyone hate my comment? I didn’t mean to offend anyone, and I support the LGBT movement.

        • @thatgirlwasfire
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          71 year ago

          Being LGBT is now political. Politicians are literally debating weather LGBT people should have rights.

    • Dom Poose
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      …. Because right wing shit bags made it political.

      Ban LGBQT books.

      Ban LGBQT healthcare.

      Ban drag shows.

      Ban everything that isn’t white conservative Christian.

      • Bizarroland
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        And then if they succeed in that then what? Did they win? Do they take their ball and go home? It’s not like the world was all hunky-dory in the fifties. There’s no golden age to go back to.

        • @Ensign_Crab
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          And then if they succeed in that then what?

          Then they move on to the next entry in the “then they came for” list.

          • Bizarroland
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            Okay but at that point only white Christian nationalists are left.

            Like what are they going to do take the 18 million people left in America and wage war on the rest of the planet?

            They would get annihilated, which now that I think about it is probably the amazing hidden backstory behind Big hero 6. Welcome to San Fran Tokyo

            • @Ensign_Crab
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              Okay but at that point only white Christian nationalists are left.

              Yup, and then they decide to start in on Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, Quakers, and Catholics.

              Like what are they going to do take the 18 million people left in America and wage war on the rest of the planet?

              Probably, yeah. When they have rid the country of those they consider to be undesirable and it hasn’t solved all of society’s problems like they said it would, they can either admit that they committed genocide for no reason or start looking abroad for new monsters to blame shit on and then slay.

              They would get annihilated,

              Yeah, there’s one little wrinkle in that outlook. Fascism does really short-sighted stupid shit at the end when it gets desperate, and has no regard for human life, and they would have access to the US nuclear arsenal.

        • @hglman
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          31 year ago

          The wealthy people pushing this will just find some new novelity, the rest habe no concept of a future.

      • @aidanM
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        -11 year ago

        A lot of countries have historically legislated religion, does that make being religious a political act? I don’t think so. Same with this. Don’t let people co-opt something that you and doesn’t effect others and let them make you a villain or a martyr because of it.

    • @PostmodernPythia
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      311 year ago

      You don’t realize that there’s an ongoing global movement for queer rights, and an ongoing backlash that often plays out in the realm of politics.

      • anonymous
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        21 year ago

        Ok, I know there’s a whole movement and everything. I know some people can make it political. I guess that’s how it made it here.

        • @PostmodernPythia
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          21 year ago

          If you don’t think mass movements for human rights are “political,” what do you think “political” means? I’m seriously asking. Do you not think civil rights marches were political, either? I do not understand.

          • anonymous
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            Sorry for the late response. I thought politics were about the people in charged off making rules. Clearly, no one ever explicitly told me the definition of the word. I guessed the word based off of where it was used like a lot of other words.

            • @PostmodernPythia
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              21 year ago

              Gotcha. There’s a concerted effort to make “political” a dirty word. I’m sorry if you were really just unaware.

    • @wintermutehal
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      261 year ago

      …it shouldn’t be, but has been made so. This article is right where it belongs

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      Yes, killing someone for hanging a pride flag is a political act.

    • Unaware7013
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      Supporting LGBT+ people apparently is, along with a bunch of other things I’d consider ‘basic human decency’ thanks to the right wing in this country going absolutely bugfuck the last decade and change.

      • anonymous
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        11 year ago

        I’ve seen someone make driving cars political lmao

    • @markr
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      11 year ago

      I was wondering what the defense would come up with.

      • anonymous
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        11 year ago

        Is this defensive? I was questioning the placement of the story, not supporting the shooting. I am 100% pro-LGBTQ, and I don’t know how it came across any other way.

        • @markr
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          11 year ago

          How is an act of terrorism not political?