A state senator said during a public forum in Tahlequah that LGBTQ+ people are “filth,” and that he and his constituents don’t want them in “our state.”

  • Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    What the fuck are you talking about? I don’t “want violence” I “wanted” examples of the type of thing I’m surprised isn’t happening. Fucking Lemmy. I’m not looking for an instrument

    You made a comment about admiring “self control” and then started talking about wanting examples for something that doesn’t exist and then people started talking about the types of resistance that DO exist because it seemed you wanted examples…

    I think where this breaks down is that A) self control has nothing to do with it and people want to correct that misconception and B) you are asking for something more fundementally basic than people expect. Very well. Here is political resistance theory 101.

    Assassinations tend to sow empathy for and consolidate the power/positions of the groups who are targeted. For example we look at JFK rather more warmly in retrospect then people did when he was alive. The criticism for risky political moves and his extramarital affairs made the question of his Presidential campaign being successful kind of anybody’s guess… But when election time rolled around LBJ won in a landslide victory the sort that is historic. Because all of a sudden his party had a martyr.

    Assassinations don’t work…or they don’t work the way you think. Conservatives love cloaking themselves in the cosplay of being the oppressed. Nobody wants to fuel that delusion because they would use that to burn us all down.