Olthar wrote:Herskerstad wrote:
Yeah? Is this extended towards state institutions? Is the state denying their application to public schools? Are they prohibited to vote or pursue public office? Are they denied legal representation or are people with steel bats on the street being ignored by the police?
If you think this is worse than Jim Crow then you are so arbitrary in your judgement of history it is borderline offensive, but I will suspect that you are just pissed and that this was said in anger.
See, your problem is that you're trying to associate every single racist thing that ever happened as being Jim Crow which is just utterly fallacious. Jim Crow did not legally allow cops to ignore racist beatings; that was an entirely separate matter, as with most anti-black things of the day. Jim Crow was merely and only the establishment of the legal basis of "separate but equal." The homophobia present today very much isn't as bad as the racism of then, but the simple comparison of just these two laws points towards this one as being the worse of the two.
Stop saying homophobia. There is no phobia.