(10-06-2023, 08:18 AM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(10-06-2023, 05:57 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: I think we make a mistake when we take the opinions of one person and apply them to an entire community.  For example, if we took a statement by Louis Farrakhan and decided from that statement that black people hate white people.  If we see a black person committing a crime, that doesn't mean "black people are criminals," and if we hear a white person say something racist, that doesn't mean "white people are racists."  People throw these kind of things out there all the time in an attempt to tar entire groups of people with the words of one person.  

I'm sure most LGBTQ people are just trying to live their lives and probably most of them aren't thinking a whole lot about whether child rapists should get the death penalty.  Nutty people say nutty things all the time.  It doesn't mean that people who have some common characteristic with that nutty person are also nutty.

It’s the lack of balanced statements from the moderate groups which causes the population at large to lump them all together. 

The politics of our times dictate that the squeaky wheel gets the grease. ALL of the grease. Dissension amongst their ranks is met with charges of collaboration with their ideological enemies. Middle-of-the-road be damned. It’s the extremists who speak the truth.