There is where you lost me. Their fears of… what… exactly? The gay/les/trans agenda? (to not live in hiding and fear of being murdered for whom one likes or loves?) That is not legitimate.
I will seek to understand. I will approach with curiosity. But to say their fears are legitimate is a bridge too far. There is no paradox of tolerance when one side does not agree or adhere to the social contract. That side wants LGBTQ+ people eliminated. They forfeit the social contract.
Nobody in the non-cis-het-normative world is trying to destroy any dam thing. They are trying to live their lives without being killed for it. Nobody is out there killing cis-het couples for being in cis-het relationships.
And where I live, the Amish live in peaceful coexistence with the non-Amish so your nonsequitir doesn’t even make sense. Hell, the Amish have agreements with folks that drive them around.
I want my “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness”. My happiness doesn’t take away from someone else’s, unless they’re such miserable shit Gibbons that they, as mentioned before, refuse to be party to the social contract.
Oh, and keep assuming that there are no straight white men that are allies of the LGBTQIA+ community.
There is where you lost me. Their fears of… what… exactly? The gay/les/trans agenda? (to not live in hiding and fear of being murdered for whom one likes or loves?) That is not legitimate.
I will seek to understand. I will approach with curiosity. But to say their fears are legitimate is a bridge too far. There is no paradox of tolerance when one side does not agree or adhere to the social contract. That side wants LGBTQ+ people eliminated. They forfeit the social contract.
you want to destroy their way of life and replace their values with your own. they don’t want that.
would you go to an amish enclave and start demanding they have to drive cars? don’t you think the amish would feel threatened by you if you did that?
Nobody in the non-cis-het-normative world is trying to destroy any dam thing. They are trying to live their lives without being killed for it. Nobody is out there killing cis-het couples for being in cis-het relationships.
And where I live, the Amish live in peaceful coexistence with the non-Amish so your nonsequitir doesn’t even make sense. Hell, the Amish have agreements with folks that drive them around.
I want my “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness”. My happiness doesn’t take away from someone else’s, unless they’re such miserable shit Gibbons that they, as mentioned before, refuse to be party to the social contract.
Oh, and keep assuming that there are no straight white men that are allies of the LGBTQIA+ community.