US Supreme Court Legalizes Gay Marriage

[LemmingofGlory]

@Leming, no, Kandrathe isn't the bigger "capitalist boogeyman" (and the fact you would even try to make a competition or comparison out of such a thing is kind of childish, don't you think?)

It's facetious. This happens to you a lot.

It has nothing to do with political ideologies or whatever framework we choose to view the world in. But putting that aside, I really couldn't care less if you are a liberal, even if I find them to be silly and utopian in general. Nor could I care less if you are republican, libertarian or even a fellow comrade.

Hollow words from someone who flings political labels around with wild abandon! Heheh.

But when you make disparaging comments about the poor or any other oppressed group, yes, I am going to call you out on it, BIG time. Because that sort of thinking NEEDS to be critiqued and called out. If such stereotypes and myths go unchecked and unchallenged, they just continue to perpetuate themselves.

This is actually something that gets people into trouble big time. Trying to be the Outsider Avenger usually results in '80s-style hero decay into what we might call The Butthurt Reactionary. For instance, I've seen so many allies flip their shit because someone dropped "gay" or "retarded" or "girly" as an insult, and when the Avenger is someone to whom these labels wouldn't be applied, it's frequently an over-reaction. People in those groups can usually more eloquently, and calmly, rebut someone who's being thoughtless or cruel.

When you have to live within a minority group, you get a sense of proportionate and disproportionate reaction. You learn which fights to pick. You eventually know the essential factual details because you live them.* You get a sense of how to react to people to try to reach them, because your goal isn't to be divisive.

* You are missing these in your discussions of LGBT topics.

-Lem