{"id":9937,"date":"2016-11-13T09:38:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T17:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=9937"},"modified":"2016-11-13T11:38:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T19:38:18","slug":"i-got-a-complaint-from-a-heterosexually-married-straight-white-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/13\/i-got-a-complaint-from-a-heterosexually-married-straight-white-man\/","title":{"rendered":"i got a complaint from a heterosexually married straight white man"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s something from one of the arguments I mentioned in my previous post<\/a>. This is from a discussion with a heterosexually-married straight white Catholic couple – both Republicans – who argue that talking about the Trump supporters hating people is unfair, and stereotyping, and hate speech directed at straight white men.<\/p>\n

He and his wife are both very<\/em> Catholic – and very conservatively Catholic – which will explain some of the below, which otherwise might appear irrelevant.<\/p>\n

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The Republican party does<\/em> hate LGBT people. Democrats used to, though less – that changed slowly over the 1980s and 90s.<\/p>\n

Right now, the Republican VP elect and the man most in charge of domestic policy in Mr. Trump’s transition team both also hate LGBT people, and are part of a movement that hate LGBT people, and one is an executive director of an organisation that officially hates LGBT people.<\/p>\n

Mike Pence opposes Anna and my marriage. Mike Pence backed a constitutional amendment banning it. Mike Pence thinks I should be banned from certain jobs, such as the military. Mike Pence supports civil rights law, except<\/em> for queers, where he opposes it. Mike Pence supports hate crimes law, except<\/em> for queers, where he opposes it. (This is not a commentary on the validity of support for those laws, but it is<\/em> a commentary on the exceptions he makes.)<\/p>\n

Mike Pence thinks me and Anna being married will destroy society<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Mike Pence supports “conversion therapy,” and advocates Federal funding for it. I’ve talked to people who have been through “conversion therapy,” involuntarily, sent there by their parents. It is a fraud, a quackery, and ranges between ludicrous bullshit and literally torture – look up electroshock aversion therapy sometime, if you want a sample.<\/p>\n

I know people subjected to this. It is real.<\/eM><\/p>\n

Mr. Pence thinks it’s okay to torture people like me into not being queer<\/em>, and thinks the Federal government should fund<\/em> it.<\/p>\n

I don’t know Mr. Pence’s position on Lawrence v. Texas (2003), which overturned state laws making me illegal for existing<\/em>, but the movement he’s proudly a part of supported those laws, fiercely, with newtype blood libel, massive lobbying efforts, and public initiatives to make me various degrees of illegal. I worked eight of those, including ground work, going door-to-door arguing why people shouldn’t vote to do things like ban me from many kinds of employment and have public schools teach that I was, oh, what was the phrase, it showed up in three initiatives – “illegal, immoral, perverse, and wrong,” I think it was. I don’t know<\/em> that Mr. Pence supported that – but the fundamentalist evangelical political movement he is a part of<\/em> absolutely did<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And that’s the vice-president-elect you voted for.<\/p>\n

And Mr. Blackwell, who the Wall Street Journal and other media have reported is in charge of the domestic policy group inside Mr. Trump’s transition team is worse<\/em>. I do<\/em> know that the Family Research Council supported all these initiatives, because I was there, fighting them<\/em>. As well as fighting their state-level mirror and proxy groups.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump chose both of these people to make domestic policy, and said all the way back in January that he would be onboard with overturning Obergefell v. Hodges<\/i>, which triggered Federal recognition of my marriage.<\/p>\n

That’s the president-elect you voted for.<\/p>\n

If this was Northern Ireland, and I supported, argued, and voted for a rabidly anti-Catholic party, one that argued that the government should fund torturing Catholics into converting to Protestantism, would you argue that I didn’t<\/em> hate Catholics?<\/p>\n

If this was Northern Ireland, and I supported, argued, and voted for a rabidly anti-Catholic party, one that argued that the government should fund torturing Catholics into converting to Protestantism, but I said it wasn’t for that, it was for other policies they supported, and said I didn’t actually have anything against Catholics but was voting for this party anyway, would you believe<\/em> that? Even if you did, would that make it okay?<\/eM><\/p>\n

Would my callous disregard for your rights and safety be cool with you after they won and started setting up a transition team stacked with believers in the anti-Catholic parts of the platform? After allied parties started outlining the steps of their plans to implement the first parts of this?<\/p>\n

If you complained about all of these actions, and talked about your fear now that plans are being moved into place, and I said, “Why are you being so horrible to me, talking about all this? Why are you so awful, calling me such a hater? You’re stereotyping me! And hating me!” – how would you react to that?<\/p>\n

Be honest. And show your work.<\/p>\n

And that’s only the one axis. I’m not even going to talk in depth about the racism and demagoguery, though really, I should, because Mr. Trump’s alt-right base is overtly<\/em> and proudly<\/em> racist, proudly<\/em> misogynistic, proudly<\/em> anti-Semitic.<\/p>\n

And it’s not just one-way support from that alt-right, either. Mr. Trump and his team retweeted their memes. Mr. Trump and his team appointed a self-declared alt-righter to run his campaign, one who made Breitbart into another home for them on the web. That alt-righter – Mr. Bannon – is now on the executive committee of the transition team. Mr. Trump brought them into the tent<\/em>.<\/p>\n

His campaign has made white supremacy campaignable<\/em> again. I’m not including you on that, but when I see those targeted groups’ fears? I get it<\/em>. They’re not making this shit up either.<\/p>\n

It’s not that you’re a straight white guy. It’s that you’re a straight white guy who voted for this<\/em>, and now are mad<\/em> that we’re upset at the result<\/em>. (Because it deeply and personally attacks core components of our lives<\/em>. We have cause.) And here you are, trying to make it about all about your<\/em> hurt feelings, and complaining about you<\/em> feeling hated for your vote, when we’re<\/em> trying to figure out whether those of us who can do it need to flee the country for our own safety.<\/p>\n

I like you both. I didn’t know you that long when you were here, but I like you. But when the stakes are this high<\/em>, well, you vote for part of it, you’re voting for all<\/em> of it.<\/p>\n

And you did.
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\nAdditional commentary on what they called my “ideological superweapon” is further down the blog page<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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