20% Under 40 Identify as LGBTQ

[Sailor]

That's why I said "normal". "Normal" is a statistical term.

Oh boy. You have done it now. Define normal. Hehehehehe...

 

[katzgar]

I don't think a heck of a lot of anybody is discriminated against day after day in this country, anymore.

you white boys arent connected to reality

 

[BattleofHodow]

you white boys arent connected to reality

So Black people or Gays can't go out their door without day after day discrimination?

Oh really?

Maybe before the 1960s.

Now I highly doubt It.

 

[Sailor]

you white boys arent connected to reality

This from a pasty white liberal. One just cannot make this shit up. I have seen your picture Katzgar. You confused fuck.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

You are free to prove it and saying so without anything to back it up isn't proof.

People can decide for themselves based on your obviously low education level, hostile demeanor and last winter's long disappearance from the forum, inmate.

 

[AProudLefty]

Oh boy. You have done it now. Define normal. Hehehehehe...

Normal as in not people like CFM.

 

[Sailor]

Normal as in not people like CFM.

HA! Pretty sly!

 

[anonymoose]

Then I stand corrected. I'm sorry that you experienced that. I mean that sincerely. A single incident doesn't compare to a lifetime of systemic oppression, but what you went through is important and should never have happened. I hope that you recovered fully. I hope that the people who harmed you were prosecuted.

Long time ago, forgotten and forgiven. Point is that hate is not limited to any race. Comes in all colors.

 

[Diesel]

I don't think a heck of a lot of anybody is discriminated against day after day in this country, anymore.

You would be wrong.

 

[BattleofHodow]

I am going to disagree with you here as the definition of discrimination applies to many things other than race. I have seen plenty of poorer white people get treated like shit or not allowed into places because of their status.

Yes, Whites aren't immune to prejudices.

Lots of prejudices floating around against Hillbillies, Jews, Poles, Italians, Germany, Russia, etc.
Lots of prejudices against Gays, Mentally ill, overweight people etc.

 

[Diesel]

you white boys arent connected to reality

You will never hear any American say that the US is a post-racial society, discrimination-free society except for straight, white men. We deserve a daily medal for putting up with their dumb asses.

 

[BattleofHodow]

You would be wrong.

If so only in the fringe hostile neighborhoods.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

He would have never made it in prison Dutch. You know that. Nor the brig.

Well, not without being teabagged a few times by an African-American prison gang. It would explain his intense hatred of African-Americans in general.

 

[Noking]

This from a pasty white liberal. One just cannot make this shit up. I have seen your picture Katzgar. You confused fuck.

Poopeye, you dizzy little twerp.

 

[BattleofHodow]

You will never hear any American say that the US is a post-racial society, discrimination-free society except for straight, white men. We deserve a daily medal for putting up with their dumb asses.

Lol, so you think I've not experienced prejudices?

 

[Diesel]

So Black people or Gays can't go out their door without day after day discrimination?

Oh really?

Maybe before the 1960s.

Now I highly doubt It.

Sigh. RomanDmowski, I had so much hope for you based on your posts in the Can the country be unified? thread. Non-white and non-straight people deal with discrimination EVERY DAY. It's an undeniable fact.

 

[Diesel]

Long time ago, forgotten and forgiven. Point is that hate is not limited to any race. Comes in all colors.

Undoubtedly.

 

[Sailor]

Well, not without being teabagged a few times by an African-American prison gang. It would explain his intense hatred of African-Americans in general.

HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[BattleofHodow]

Sigh. RomanDmowski, I had so much hope for you based on your posts in the Can the country be unified? thread. Non-white and non-straight people deal with discrimination EVERY DAY. It's an undeniable fact.

I was best friends with a Black Jamaican in middle school.

Spent 4 years around him,only witnessed prejudices 2 times.

Although 2 very serious prejudices, A riot of Italian skateboarders throwing rocks & slurs at him. The other another Italian kid started pushing him.

 

[Diesel]

If so only in the fringe hostile neighborhoods.

Oh, yeah? I was at a straight wedding in San Francisco last year between a rock musician and a tattoo artist. I only knew the couple and none of their other guests. I got drunk (because it was a wedding) and became freer about my sexuality than some people around me appreciated. It got ugly. Is San Francisco a fringe hostile neighborhood?

I wrapped up a date with a man in Denver this summer and kissed him on the mouth as we parted ways. A group of passing men shouted, "Faggots!" at us a number of times. Is Denver a fringe hostile neighborhood?

I was approached by some neighbors in NYC in October of this year and asked to purchase the dry cleaning business in our building because, in their words, "A nice Oriental like you would really clean it up." Is NYC a fringe hostile neighborhood?

I will say this to you, without intending confrontation, and I hope you take it to heart: A minority in the United States is anyone who is not a white, straight, Christian male. The rest of us experience some level of discrimination regularly -- some more than others. I ask you, as I ask everyone with whom I have this conversation, to please not tell us when we're allowed or not allowed to perceive discrimination. Some people are crazy, granted, but I do not internalize discrimination when none exists. A discriminatory remark or action may not have been intended as discriminatory, but that doesn't change the way we receive it, does it? I urge you to consider our words and stop telling us what our experiences mean.