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| Topic | I heard Texas is trying to ban gays again |
| adjl 09/20/21 9:54:29 AM #21: | Unbridled9 posted... That's not what I said though. It really is. Pushing for more LGBT representation in media and school curricula is literally just a matter of ensuring that media and school curricula say "gay people exist and that's okay." "Pro-LGBT content" is simply stuff that says "some people are gay and that's not a bad thing," not some kind of insidious propaganda that's going to turn all the frogs gay. That is the "extreme" to which you're referring, so characterizing the issue as "both sides just take it to unreasonable extremes" is blatantly ridiculous. Unbridled9 posted... I agree, but they are. My point here is that any issue with even slight political leanings has devolved down to bipolar representations in which you are forced to agree with an extreme of one party simply because you may agree with said party on a completely unrelated issue (that is relevant to you). Like, for example, your opinion on border security should be completely unrelated to your opinion on global warming; yet that's not what we see. You take a position on one, you're more or less forced to take a position that aligns with your party on the other. Even if you don't care one bit about one of the issues for whatever reason. That's mostly the fault of the two-party system. You can't vote for one position without also voting for all of the associated ones according to party lines, which is indeed a problem and fuels the "football politics" sort of attitudes we see so commonly because that inevitably results in supporting some positions that the other side sees as unacceptable (i.e. voting for tax breaks for small businesses also entails voting to make gay marriage illegal). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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