You are wholeheartedly condemning whatshisface
Yes, I wholeheartedly condemn Scott's actions. They are deserving of criticism and boycotts.
while tossing in your disclaimer to make it look like you aren't promoting hate mobs.
I wholeheartedly condemn harassment, doxing, death threats, etc.
Like I said. "I don't approve of the violence, I just rely on it and am grateful for its results."
I don't approve of the threats of violence. I haven't seen anyone here who does.
Donald Trump was never vehemntly anti-LGBT rights and in fact he supported gay marriage, always respecting the Supreme Court's ruling in 2015 that the ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional.
The former president's comments on same-sex marriage were inconsistent. You are right that he said he considered it "settled law," which is a step below being in favor of same-sex marriage. Regardless of what the former president said, you should look instead at what the former president did:
Trump does not support any part of the LGBT community. You might be able to find some comments here and there about how he supports the LGBT community, but actions speak louder than words. At every chance he had, he did what he could to strip rights away from the LGBT community. They spent years ignoring Pride Month. As soon as the former president was sworn in, LGBT resource pages on the White House website were removed. They tried to remove LGBT questions from the census in order to erase LGBT people. They tried to remove LGBT people from the equal employment policies at the commerce department. They banned trans people from the military for no reason other than to be anti-LGBT. They ordered the Department of Education to remove anti-discrimination policies relating to LGBT people. They explicitly said they'd reject civil rights complaints at the Department of Education relating to LGBT issues. They gave federal funds to private schools that explicitly discriminate against LGBT people. They removed healthcare protections for LGBT people, effectively making it so anyone could refuse health care to anybody who is LGBT, for any reason. They established an office within HHS to specifically defend people who refused medical care to LGBT people. They granted federal funds to foster programs that discriminated against LGBT people. They engaged in an outright effort to specifically erase trans people from all existing protections and acknowledgements online. They ordered the CDC to stop using words like "transgender." They created a rule to stop doing data collection on LGBT foster youth, creating significant impediments to helping them, all for no reason but to cause harm. They ordered the removal of questions relating to LGBT people from forms belonging to programs that help the elderly and disabled, hindering the ability to help those people's specific needs as well. They ordered the removal of anti-discrimination policies relating to LGBT people from HUD. They ordered HUD to permit shelters to deny entry to trans people. They ordered the cancellation of HUD surveys relating to LGBT needs. They ordered the Justice Department to argue in court against anti-LGBT discrimination. They rolled back previously existing protections for LGBT people in prisons. They rolled back anti-discrimination policies affecting LGBT federal contractors. They ordered the denial of visas to same-sex partners of diplomats. They ordered a rule change so that a child born of a same-sex couple born overseas via a surrogate wouldn't be eligible for US citizenship. They removed the US from the UN Human Rights Council with one of the main reasons being because of LGBT issues (they were friendly to LGBT people and LGBT issues). They refused to sign a statement condemning physical attacks against LGBT people overseas. They ordered the removal of a pro-LGBT program in the 4H program, hurting LGBT children. They've nominated numerous justices, including ones even controversial among the Republican Party, who are vehemently anti-LGBT. Under their policies, ICE as specifically mistreated LGBT inmates in their custody. They did and said nothing relating to anti-trans violence and murders in this country.
The former president was demonstrably anti-LGBT. In addition to the anti-LGBT policies above, he also appointed judges and justices who were anti-LGBT and anti-same-sex marriage. The former president saying the Supreme Court's 2015 decision on same-sex marriage is "settled law" and changing the topic doesn't come close to changing this.
Scott donating money is not an "anti-LGBT act", here you prove my point that you leftists do not believe in nuance and only believe in black and white. How do you know Scott supports absolutely everything the Republican Party does? Did you ask him yourself? Do you support absolutely everything the Democrats do? If so, you might as well start calling yourself racist and homophobic because there are plenty of racist, homophobic Democrats too.
As I've already said, giving money to a politician does not mean you support everything that politician says and does, but it does mean you tolerate it. Giving money to the former president isn't only anti-LGBT; it's anti-woman, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-immigrant child, anti-environment, anti-science, anti-democracy, anti-poor, etc. That's a lot Scott has to accept or tolerate in order to give the former president money.
Also, it's quite funny how you pretend to not hate Christians in your post too, even though by your logic, the mere act of being a Christian (or Muslim, or Jew, or any other religion really) is "homophobic" even when said religious person does nothing actually homophobic.
There are as many versions of Christianity, for example, as there are Christians. Just because a person is Christian does not make that person homophobic, despite what the Bible says. There are entire churches and groups of churches that are pro-LGBT. I still think Christianity has failed to meet its burden of proof and promotes anti-skepticism, but that is a separate issue, and it still doesn't cause me to "hate Christians."
And, again, there are Christians who are "radical lefties."
Here you lefties go again coming up with bullshit. No one has ever said anything of the sort in this thread. The issue here is that Scott donated to a political party you don't like, and leftists rushed to go and slander, dox, harass and threaten him and his family for this.
If the sole issue is that people are harassing, doxing, etc. Scott, then you and I are in agreement that this is deplorable behavior. However, it's not the only issue. The harassment directed against Scott does not somehow excuse Scott's own behavior. His behavior is still deserving of criticism.
And here you prove my point that leftism is all about controlling what you're allowed to believe in and bullying those who don't believe in what you do. You really believe that Scott and his family should be threatened, doxed and harassed because he donated money to a political party you don't like. The fact you actually believe what Scott did and what leftists are doing to him are even remotely comparable is pathetic and actually deplorable (in the actual sense of the word, not the exaggerated way you're using it - proving my point that leftists just exaggerate their invented problems hoping people will jump on the bandwagon with them even though the "problem" isn't actually even real).
Again, I condemn any harassment, doxing, etc. directed at Scott. That doesn't mean Scott's actions aren't deserving of criticism.
Where are the anti-LGBT policies and who exactly has been directly harmed by them? Oh that's right... there has been no anti-LGBT policies. Everytime an internet leftist tells me something is "anti-(insert group here)" it's always about a super hyped-up, exaggerated, doom-laden version of what the bill "could" do, yet there's never any focus on what the bill actually does and what actually happened after the bill was introduced. Of course, that's because the answer always is: these bills haven't actually done a damn thing against LGBT people, and the US is still a leading place on LGBT rights. Again, Trump never opposed LGBT rights during his presidency. Leftists invented that narrative, just like all the other false narratives you invented about Donald Trump.
See my list of the former president's anti-LGBT actions near the beginning of this post.
Once again, this potential, exaggerated "objective harm" has never come to pass. The accusations against Scott are false. He is not a raging homophobe out to get The Gays. Scott has never done anything actually anti-LGBT. He and his family absolutely did not deserve to be harassed, doxed, and threatened. Stop parroting what you heard someone else say on Twitter, cut the cancel culture bullshit out, and stop lying.
Giving money to a vehemently anti-LGBT politician is an anti-LGBT action. You and I are in agreement, however, that Scott should not be harassed, doxed, threatened, etc. He should, however, be criticized for his actions and boycotted.
"Sometimes". And nowhere near the rate as illegal immigrants do.
- Your the one who made the "sometimes" argument, not me. My point was that it was ridiculous because it was a "sometimes" argument.
- Illegal immigrants commit violent crimes at about half the rate as American citizens.
You obviously try to minimize legal immigrant crime by only allowing people with no criminal record. I have legal migrant uncles, my brother who live in Canada. They have to do a police background check to see if there's any criminal record before they're allowed in.
Again, I am not arguing in favor of illegal immigration. However, it's understandable that it happens when our legal immigration system is designed to fail. We need to fix our immigration system, offer a pathway to citizenship to illegal immigrants who are already here, stop demonizing illegal immigrants, stop deportations for those who haven't done anything wrong other than immigrate illegally, and stop talking about a wasteful wall that isn't going to do much if anything to curb illegal immigration.
Stomp out illegal immigration and you'll stomp out cartels, organised crime, drug gangs, sex trafficking.
- First, these things won't disappear by "stomping out" illegal immigration.
- "Building a wall" is not going to "stomp out" illegal immigration.
- Many illegal immigrants (and a lot of legal asylum seekers incorrectly labeled as illegal immigrants) are fleeing the cartels, organised crime, drug gangs, and sex trafficking that you're talking about.
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