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Originally posted by Cricket
its not the straight folks that are the ones that need acceptance in the society.. its them folks that are the ones that need to put their differences aside and work together and the goal would be accomplished more quicker.... yet they whine and bitch about not being accepted in the society when they gotta look amongst themselves and work it out from there.... if that group thinks that the society ought accept them to be equals its not possible if they dont view each other as EQUALS? thats my point.
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However, being accepted by a group does not depend on whether you are seen to behave well, but by whether they consider you human in the first place. It would not matter how well we behave, how decent human beings we are, if straights do not think that to be gay is normal, they will not accept as equals. The same applies to people of colour, gender, disability, and ethnicity..look at the current situation where Arabs and Muslims are judged by a few fundamentalists! So to take issue with how we behave is to avoid the fact of how discrimination occurs. It does not occur because a group of people behave badly, it occurs because a group of people think you are not their equal base don some bullshit notion of race, sex or whatever.
But yes we do need to pull together, but base don common aims and not best behaviour.