I'm just flabbergasted that some of the brightest minds I have ever encountered in my life can have such weird reasoning.
I understand Trump and his goons are trying to take the USA on a path it really shouldn't go, but the ISIS-Trumpers link is just lost on me. It seems a bit too extreme of a comparison to me.
"Weird reasoning"? What reasoning is that? That there are similarities between Trumpists and ISIS as it pertains to gay people? You yourself were the one who had to add "by the towns full". You didn't even feel comfortable to leave it at "killing people", which, I mean I don't blame you for not leaving it there. I think you were right to add "by the towns full" to make it a more accurate statement (though I'm not aware of any gay towns that muslim terrorists have destroyed, I get your point I think).
When the differences are a path that comes to a point of, "Well, we don't allow gays to have equal rights, but at least we don't kill them", we've missed an exit a mile back to avoid such a conclusion.
The distinction Dennisch was making was how fast they're being killed. "Well, we don't allow gays to have equal rights, but at least we don't kill them... as fast".
Getting back to the original point here, the tweet about the image was supposed to say "gay people, you're so much better with this group of pickup trucks than that one". And while that might be technically true, I think if I were gay I would be able to pick which set of trucks I'd be more comfortable with, it misses a much broader point which is that gay people are not exactly "safe" with either group. It's like saying "hey black people, you should like cops because they're not KKK members. Well not
all of them... I mean not
most of them". Sure, the police are probably a saf
er group if you're black, but it's not exactly a group that makes you feel actually safe.
I'm curious about what motivates trying to split this line. Nobody is saying that ISIS is preferable to Y'all Qaeda.
