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Because it isn't a big deal! I'm glad we're coming around to the reaction to a major public figure coming out is "meh." Injustice won't be over the day little
by s_q_b 12y ago
Because it isn't a big deal! I'm glad we're coming around to the reaction to a major public figure coming out is "meh."
Injustice won't be over the day little black boys and girls and little white boys play together. It will be over the day anyone even thinks anything of it. Unfortunately, we have both overt and covert (even accidental) discrimination still to deal with.
But our grandparents faced firehouses and dogs, while we face op-eds and Twitter feeds. For the first time in history we have the communications technology to bind humanity together into a single global people.
Someday there will be a gay president. Someday there will be a black female president. I hope that by the time that day comes, it will be little noted nor long remembered.
- goatforce5 12y ago> Because it isn't a big deal! Agreed. But I think his message is aimed at younger people. "I'm a mellow kinda guy who is respected in the world of business. And i'm gay." You don't have to fit the stereotype of being flamboyant , out, loud and proud to be gay. You and I know that. Any functioning adult in a largish city knows that. Maybe some kids in isolated communities without personal role models (family, family friends, teachers, etc., who are gay and run-of-the-mill kinda people) don't know that. Edit: The top comment says it better than I can: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8532962 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8532962