Dvergar wrote:
You're strawmanning. You read at least some part of my post, but only quoted part of it to misrepresent my argument.
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I'm not trying to make it into anything. This is a party that deifies soldiers and here they are booing one who is at this very moment putting his life on the line in Iraq. Booing him simply because he is gay.
I quoted what was relevant. Adding the rest back in doesn't change the fact that you very clearly understand why they were booing him and are purposely saying it was for another reason.
Dvergar wrote:
Booing someone just because he's gay is no surprise, conservatives embarrass America on a weekly basis. Acting like super-patriots then booing someone who is serving and has done nothing wrong, I guess that shouldn't be surprising given the group we're talking about.
Your argument reflects your thoughts that it should be totally ok and acceptable to hate someone simply for being gay. Not that you might feel that way, but it should be acceptable for others to feel that way. Not "well it happens and it's not right", but "no, they were just booing because he was a fag and they aren't really people anyway".
And the people that were booing think that anyone that won't embrace their point-of-view is a fucking embarrassment, so your complaint basically is that they're doing what you're doing, just in the opposite direction? In their eyes, the idea that he "has done nothing wrong" does not compute.
Your argument reflects your thoughts that it should be totally ok and acceptable to expect everyone to believe exactly the things you believe and nothing else. Not that you might feel that way, but it should be acceptable for others to feel that way. If they want to be the sort of asshats that are so hung on up on where someone else wants to stick their genitals that they're willing to make a public spectacle of themselves, I could give less than a fuck. What I'm not going to do is be so vindictive in the throes of my petty moralizing that I'm going to make what they're doing out to be anything other than what they're doing just so I have more reasons to think of them as asshats. If not endorsing homosexuality is such a terrible thing, I shouldn't have to look for extra shit to pile onto their scorecards to make the point...that alone should be enough.
Your Pal,
Jubber