(07-20-2019 09:58 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(07-20-2019 09:22 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(07-20-2019 09:17 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(07-20-2019 05:59 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  It isn’t a pat on the head, it’s a honest assessment of your community

Smug, arrogant, condescension. And the left has no idea how badly that comes across.

Give me a break. You’re telling me that we should have expected every community in the country in 1963 to embrace an openly gay man?
If so, why did we even have the gay rights movement?
There is zero arrogance or condescension in me saying that OO came from a good community, one that far exceeded and outpaced others in the early 60s, based on historical fact. Tell me, how that is arrogant or condescending? I’m fricking complimenting where he grew up - they had a better attitude towards gay men than mine did in the early 2000s. Jesus.

No, I'm telling you that you come across like telling your dog, "Good boy, Fido." That was actually the image that jumped immediately to mind when I read that.

I grew up in a small town in Alabama in the 1960s. Our church youth group had an openly gay boy as vice president, and our statewide youth group organization had a black vice-president, in 1963. The stereotypes are stereotypes, and patting someone on the back for not conforming does come across as smug, arrogant, condescension.

I'm quite certain that OO is extremely gratified to know that you approve of his high school in 1963.

I just don't think the left understands how their smug, arrogant, condescension comes across.

Well ****, I guess I should just go back to assuming OO is some ignorant, racist, deplorable, huh? Seems like that would at least be less arrogant than, heaven forbid, commenting that his community provided a more positive environment for an out gay man in high school than the majority of the country in the 2000s, let alone the 1960s.

Fricken thought police over here, acting as if the entire country in the 1960s was a haven for gay individuals.

The fact that you think it's arrogant or smug, is just mind boggling, because I explicitly shared how I did not come from a community like OO's. I would have much rather not dealt with the blatant homophobic issues I did growing up in high school.