Re:Google Doodle Upholds Gay Rights Ahead of Sochi Olympics
by science0854 on Friday February 07, 2014 @07:29AM
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You know what? Homosexuals are being killed in the Middle East right now but for some reason, the rest of the world doesn't care. There are no similar campaigns on the scale of gay marriage campaigns to stop the mass killings of homosexuals in the Middle East. Aren't there more important battles to focus on?
Re:Google Doodle Upholds Gay Rights Ahead of Sochi Olympics
by netcan on Friday February 07, 2014 @08:14AM
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Of course there are and of course people care. Most of the people focused on the Russian situation are Russians. The situation is regressing and it's acute.
BTW, this is the second red herring you've flung into the fray.
The reality of the political struggle is that gays are and have been oppressed, mistreated, abused, raped, labeled insane, labeled as dangerous, killed, maimed or criminalized for the "crime" which is not a crime, not to anyone with a decent sense of morality. Political messages need to be simple. "They are how they are and they do harm to no one." To try and pick apart a political slogan demanding equality and tolerance with a semantic argument as if it was a statement of biological fact betrays an intention.
Alan Turing, war hero, scientific hero & intellectual hero was convicted and chemically castrated for homosexuality. He was driven to suicide. One of many.
Sometimes in history there is a line and you can stand on one side of it or the other.