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In reply to the discussion: "Gays can't be trusted with children" [View all]Prism
(5,815 posts)The thing I see repeatedly in these topics is straight people rushing to absolve other straight people for what is said about the LGBT community. And what liberals should know, what should be good old-fashioned Democratic common sense, is that it is not up to the privileged to absolve the other privileged of their sins.
If a straight person calls someone a fag and then says sorry, it's not up to other straight people to determine whether or not that person is forgiven for it. That is the definition of privilege - to leave the minority out of the considered equation.
And yet, again and again and again, we see the privileged acquitting the other privileged for their crimes. A jury of one's peers, indeed.
I actually like the current system quite a bit more. More trolls are given the heave ho, more nonsense is being called out, but you have to tread with care. In calling out this homophobia and my nonforgiveness of it, I've been jury hidden twice. Only this thread stuck. And I've been getting admonished as if it's some petty board war, a little spat, some personal difference.
Not homophobia. Not vile, poisonous rhetoric. No, no. A personal difference. That's all.
That's the viewpoint of the privileged, not the affected, and that is something DU needs a lot of work on, after all these years.