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Victor said:But I do disagree with the analogy of the show American Dad:
Steve: So then its cool to alienate gays?
Stan: Yes it is son. Gays are the new Blacks.
What blacks went through seems so much worse to me. So I wouldn't compare them.
I agree with your reasoning (and that it is clearly not the case that gay people are persecuted to the extent that black people have been in the past) but I feel that the analogy is supposed to point out that discriminating against black people (something that is largely socially unacceptable) and discriminating against gay people (something that is largely socially acceptable) is equally wrong. It is not trying to say that gay people are slaves or anything like that. The degree is clearly different.
Nobody would sit round in the canteen at university discussing how they wouldn't like to go to college X because it is known as a "black" college. Nobody would try and ban schools from teaching about black culture and history. Nobody prevents their son from bringing their black girlfriend to the house.
A lot of people simply don't view homosexuals as equals or they feel it is acceptable to treat them differently because they are homosexual. These same people wouldn't even dream of doing treating or viewing black people in a similar way because they are black. It is a comparison made commonly by gay supporters and I am certain that the vast majority of them are using it to try and illustrate this point and not to exaggerate their situation.
I feel that believing something about another person because of something that a book states and decided upon due to an immutable aspect of their personality is mistreating them by violating the equal status they deserve as another human being.FervantGodSeeker said:What definition of "persecution" are you using here? Neither of FatMan's definitions seem to jive with what you're saying.
Saying that X is wrong is to say that X should no longer be practiced or should happen. In an ideal world, homosexual sex would not happen. That is sufficiently oppressive to be defined as persecution for me but I'm quite happy to call it by anything else as long as my meaning is clear.