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Trying to keep queer people out of acceptable models of life like marriage, having families, and being responsible is a literal attempt to silence and kill them
by tedks 12y ago
Trying to keep queer people out of acceptable models of life like marriage, having families, and being responsible is a literal attempt to silence and kill them. There is a straight line from homophobia to the effective genocide Reagan committed against queer people in the 80s by turning a blind eye to the AIDS crisis.
I think it's entirely correct that Eich was deposed and shamed for what he did. I wish that we had the Internet in the 60s so that we could have done the same to George Wallace.
Be on the right side of history or you'll inevitably end up on the wrong side of it.
- wtbob 12y ago> Trying to keep queer people out of acceptable models of life like marriage, having families, and being responsible is a literal attempt to silence and kill them. You literally didn't use 'literally' properly. > effective genocide Reagan committed against queer people in the 80s by turning a blind eye to the AIDS crisis. You literally are wrong about history, c.f. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/06/01/ronald_reagan_and_aids_correcting_the_record_122806.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/06/01/ronald_... et al.
- LordKano 12y agoYou're attempting to look back into 1983 with the knowledge that we have today. In those days, the LGBT community fought against attempts to close the bath houses where the disease was spreading because they didn't know what was going on either. The sentiment that you're expressing here is precisely why discussion is dying. There is nothing shameful about Eich's activity, he chose a side, his side won and the side that lost were so outraged that they began to threaten the business of his employer.