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VA Students Protest Gov. Youngkin's Visit To NoVa High School
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@PGen98, @WHO IS SERAFIN: isn't it nice to see students standing up for what is right and decent in America?
Yes! Teach queer history, teach queer existence! Let them know it's ok to be who you are. Let them know trans people exist and are just as valid as anyone else, no matter what transphobes think, or how dismissive they might be.
You're you, you're valid, be fabulous!
You can go out and be who- and / or what- ever you think you are.
Just don't expect me to care.
Just don't expect me to care.
In a sense, that's what Doc is saying (feel free to correct me there, @DrLeftover). Back when I worked as a butcher, everyone at work knew I was gay and they didn't flat give a fuck - as long as you were able to do the job that's all that mattered.
That said, when certain parts of society are trying to push you back into your little cubbyhole, don't be surprised when we push back; we've got as much right to a seat at the table of American equality as anyone else.
Oh absolutely agreed, just speaking in a more generalized sense. Not caring is fine, it's actually for the best, it's those who actively oppose that need to back off.
If they only taught actual history, balance a bank account, actual math, things that make you a person that can survive in real world as hard as they want to do their personal agendas. But having lazy, dependent and being validated by others all day instead of strong independent thinking kids is the last thing they want.
That is exactly what I meant.
I worked for years with those of 'other tastes' as far as what they did to get through the weekends, across all manner of personal habits / religions / diet / sexual preference / whatever. That includes Wiccan priestesses, a guy in the Navy Reserve, a Hindu Vegan, various flavors of homosexual, a guy who used to be a Catholic priest, and so on.
It didn't bother me at all.
And also, I didn't try to push my own behaviors off on them. If something was going on that I thought they might be interested in, such as a big cook out, I invited them, they either showed up or they didn't. And they reciprocated in kind, and when we could, we'd attend their gathering as well.
Everybody, USUALLY, behaved themselves and it was all good.
99% don’t care who you sleep with or what you think you are. Leave them alone and they will leave you alone. And all this uproar isn’t about a gay person living there lives, they don’t care how you live your life as long as your lifestyle doesn’t make them change there’s. It’s about fucking with peoples children and expecting me to alter my speech under threat to make you feel better.
The last bit's a dodge to divide Americans, Serafin, but until we all have a shot at the proverbial brass ring of equality you damn well better believe we'll protest, get in people's faces and not step back until we do, so can the faux concern over children.
Thought so.
Good for you, Doc; now tell that to all the religious folk out there who seek to use their religious beliefs/liberties to discriminate against the rest of us.
Who, us or the Religious Right?
And with the last part, so you think government should force me to say how a individual identifies? Even if I agree with the person I would go to jail before complying.
In this case a segment of the gay community
Someone's got to stand for the least of us.
OK, deal.
And at the same time I expect you to tell those 'on the other side' who seem to think that I not only want to see their personal life out on public display, that my greatest wish is to pay for it as well.
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