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Originally posted by ktsnake
Why don't we punish all the people in the next gay pride parade because the Bible says it's an abomination? That for some religious folks is just as dire a transgression as blackface. Perhaps not in your frame of reference but why is it only your frame of reference that matters? The current liberal culture however doesn't see it as such.
I'm sick of people preaching tolerance as long as the tolerance i supporting THEIR views. This is America and we (and by we in this case I am not referring to private organizations because they can do whatever they want) do not punish people for expression. If they had wanted to crossdress and march down mainstreet declaring their pride it's their right so much as wearing blackface or burning crosses.
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First off, who said my view is the right one? I didn't. We are all entitled to our own opinions here.
Second of all, you are really skewing the concept of tolerance to fit your argument. Gay people having a parade is the same thing as someone wearing blackface? Can you please break that one down for me?
Is there some sordid history of people putting on gayface in order to mock and belittle religious people? Help me out.
You are either totally missing the point or choosing to ignore it.
To put on blackface, NO MATTER THE INTENTION, is to deliberately degrade an entire culture. If you don't know the history, check the links I gave. If
someone else doesn't know the history and chooses to do it, that is just plain ignorance. But when kids that KNOW of the background (or at least know that it has caused much controversy in the past, i.e. their knowledge of the Auburn incident) is downright STUPID.
Also the fact that you don't believe you have racist thoughts doesn't mean you do not. I did mean YOU, and if it hit close to home, then maybe you should do some introspection. It wasn't meant to be an insult, just my point of view.