Ushiromiya Battler said:
Something Amyss said:
Ushiromiya Battler said:
Probably because people don't really like to be blamed for something they had nothing to do with.
Who's being blamed and what didn't they have anything to do with?
White people in general being blamed for minorities having a shitty life, instead of specific people. Same thing with straight people and homosexuals.
Happens mostly on the internet though.
You seem not to understand something here, the systemic issues that are attached here. For example, while it's federally illegal to deny someone a place in a university, or college... Try being a black student, who is neither a star athletic, nor a star student, but passably within the standards of a given university, or college. Even with affirmative action programs the odds are against your getting in any of the schools you applied for. Now stack upon that the liklihood of being born into a shitty neighborhood, with an equally shitty school, where most of the teachers don't give a fart in the vastness of space about your success... Versus in any white dominate school where the teachers bend over backwards to make sure their students succeed. I grew up in a Podunk little white as it gets town in Southern Oregon, my teachers there showed an obvious bias to the white students, but still bent over backwards to make sure all in their care did well. All of my teachers were very success oriented, in a very success important environment. Now compare that to an inner city school with mostly racial minority students, where the common culture is heavily racial minorities, and the concept of scholastic success is seen as hopeless...
Now look at the common culture where LGBT folk are concerned... Where over a quarter(28%) of people think that being gay/lesbian should be illegal... [http://www.gallup.com/poll/1651/gay-lesbian-rights.aspx]
These are systemic issues that stem from personal prejudice... Writing them off because some people don't experience that systemic hate and fear base prejudice, where many in the majority might not express such prejudice, is short sighted. The fact of the matter is, that many of the people in power are disproportionately represented by those with backwards ideas. If that weren't the truth things like North Carolina's HB2, which doesn't just make bathrooms unacceptable to trans folk, but repeals all GSM[footnote]Gender and Sexuality Minority[/footnote] protections across the state, while preventing new ones from being passed... While a major political group like the Family Research Council can fight to deny trans people our basic rights...[/url="http://www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/2/25/republican-national-committee-endorses-anti-trans-bathroom-bills"] When the Republican National Convention can officially take up an anti-transgender possition [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brynn-tannehill/and-then-they-came-for-tr_b_9258678.html] while also trying to roll back marriage equality...
Tell me that there isn't a hate driven position among straight cisgender folk to deny basic rights to GSM(LGBTQI+) folk. One that the good and supportive majority is unwilling to back. That most straight cis folk will allow to exist out of either apathy, or a vested interest to protect their privilege to harm vulnerable minorities... Because if you say that system doesn't exit, you're at best ignorant of the reality, or at worst happy to let the hate mongers drive us to the closet, suicide, and further violence and murder.
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