In my opinion that 1st guy should have been told, "What are you complaining about? You should be thankful that you are not placed under arrest for being homosexual in public. And yet you still complain like it is not enough that society has bent over backwards to accommodate your alternate lifestyle. As recently as 2003 your lifestyle was illegal in many states. Shut up and mind your business."
Agree. I think this way all the time. I hear people say "Muslims under attack in America!" and I'm thinking to myself...during WWII Japanese Americans got interred in a camp by a liberal President. That was only 70 years ago, not even a grain of sand in the hourglass of history.
But that was bad. It was bad that we interned Japanese Americans.
Correct. So wouldn't treating them right be the good thing to do?
My point is that the argument that an atrocity like that somehow excuses every less-extreme policy is absurd. Is the new golden standard for civil rights in America now "as long as we don't treat you as bad as the Japanese you should shut your mouth?" Should Japanese Americans have stopped complaining during WWII since, after all, at least we weren't giving them smallpox blankets?
