Wait......What?

[featherynscale]

Ummm. Yeah. Hands up who thought that Reverend Falwell would ever, for any reason, admit that gay people were people and deserved basic human rights?

Yeah. Me either.

Whiskey tango, over.

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Wow...

[zanzaboonda.livejournal.com]

I almost fell off my chair when I read that.

Some members of my family were quite prejudiced against other races before I had my daughter, but they seem much better now, as if they *finally* realized it doesn't matter. Duh.

Just goes to show you that anyone can change. Sometimes it takes getting to know someone personally (like the gay man that helped him write his autobiography, lol) for people to really learn. Well, that, and a serious heart condition, lol.

I'm sorry... I recently realized that I tend to overstate the obvious a lot, lol...

Re: Wow...

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Sure. It's a lot easier to hate people when you can think of them as a monolithic block of otherness than when you have to think of them as Joe down the street and Cindy at the coffee shop. Once they have faces, it's different. Which is why you get faceless men or a group of men all with the same face in war propaganda. The Enemy has to be The Enemy. Once they have names and faces and lives, nobody wants to kill them.
(If you haven't noticed, I'm also a stater of the obvious. I'm aware of this, but I continue to do it. Sometimes the obvious isn't as obvious as it might be.)