Agathyr wrote:Saying conservatives want to send gays to concentration camps is strawman bullshit
Nobody is actually claiming that conservatives will forcibly incarcerate LGBT people. OP suggested that this may be the logical conclusion to conservative homophobia, but never said that this was strictly what conservatives want. That in and of itself is, ironically, a strawman.
We live in an age when social justice and feminism have made victimhood a way of life and people are becoming weary of it.
God forbid that marginalized people ever seek social/legal equality, or reparations for past wrongdoings.
For example, if you are gay, woman, or a minority you can say you got fired because of discrimination and ask for laws to be made to "protect" you.
Except this actually happens. Employers in right-to-work states can fire anyone for any reason; this can extend to simply being a racial or sexual minority.
The left wing thinks laws must "level the play field" while conservatives have a more individualist concept of life that by the way I share.
Why is leveling the playing field a bad thing? Are all men not created equal? Do people not deserve equality?
We are responsible for our own life and nobody owes you anything.
To be fair, the government is kinda created to serve the people, so it'd make sense that it's laws benefit all people.
When some people demand LGBT right's, what they actually mean are LGBT privileges.
We don't want "privileges." We mostly just wanna be recognized as people. Sure, I'd personally like if the government helped pay for my gender reassignment surgery, but that doesn't trump the "being treated as people" thing yet.
You don't need to be conservative to be against this but it usually comes together. I get along with anyone as long as they don't want special laws tailored for them.
Again, no special laws, we just don't want to be treated as second-class citizens just because we're not straight and/or cis.