(07-20-2019 09:28 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(07-18-2019 04:02 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(07-18-2019 02:15 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(07-18-2019 01:29 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(07-18-2019 01:07 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  So Trump and his supporters are the speech militia? Per Tanq, they’re confronting people because they use the word Nazi.

Edit: and what about parents who teach their children not to curse or call people names? Or what about the head of HR, who would definitely fire me for using a racial slur? Or what about the government who would hold me liable for screaming fire in a crowded theater, should someone get hurt?

As for the head of HR, he has to live in the world your guys created, where a racial slur is firing grounds. Didn't use to be. You guys changed the world. I am sure you are proud, Cowboy. I mean, Dude. I mean, whatever is OK with you.

I think it's a net plus, TBH. I have concerns over the "cancel culture" in general but I'm just fine with people losing their jobs over using a racial slur.

Back when I was in high school all my friends used the term "gay" in a pejorative fashion. The term "f*g* was thrown around freely as well. Are these the good-old-days that you pine for? I'm ashamed to have taken part in that and I recognize how hurtful that was for certain individuals in our orbit.

I am astounded that you were that way, what, 20-30 years or more after I had a gay friend in high school? How regressive were you? I graduated in 1963.

I'm surprised that you are astounded by that fact. My experience was that this type of behavior was not uncommon. Maybe it was better in 1963? As I said... I am ashamed of it.

Quote:Yeah, Jim was not as comfortable in my country HS full of rednecks as he would be today, but he got by.

I'm glad he got by. Plenty of his people in his situation didn't get through unscathed.

Quote: His "friend" Harlan was one of the more popular guys in school. I guess my country school in 1962-63 was more progressive than your school. And we did it without being coerced.

Clearly your school was more progressive without any coercion. It would be interesting to me to hear from homosexuals in your area from that era to see if they felt the same way about the experience that you do.

In all honesty, I applaud you for being so progressive and having a gay friend in high school in an area that you describe as "redneck country". I too was friendly with gay people in school however that did not prevent me from using language amongst my non-gay friends that was wrong and unacceptable. All I can do is learn from my mistakes, teach my kids differently, and vote for politicians that support equal rights for everybody.

A little update for you. After graduation, Jim and Harlan moved in together. Ten years or so later, Harlan cheated on Jim and Jim committed suicide. Harlan later died of AIDS.

I wasn’t progressive. I did not not treat Jim as I did out of any political stance. He was mostly ignored in HS. I am sure you had leftist visions of the rednecks beating him up in the halls, because that is the way you guys think. You are pure, the others are evil.

I went to a small country HS. FFA was the biggest club in school. I say redneck, because that is the best way to communicate with progressives, using the same stereotypes, but cowboy would be a better description. My neighbor was a real redneck - a farmer who worked from before sunrise to after sunset. He still plowed with mules. His neck was very red.

I am just very surprised you thought being nice to a gay kid was something the Democrats invented. I am less surprised you think it praiseworthy.