Hipster Duck
Senior Member
Hipster Duck, who are you kidding? I've seen you, on two different occasions, tell people to not express their discontent for other cities. Despite the fact people were offering up valid opinions about other cities, you told them they they were out of line. That to me, sounds like an attempt to hush other peoples opinions.
I never told them to shut up or get banned, I told them (you) that their (your) opinion was misinformed stereotyping.
I notice that on this forum, in particular, people will nitpick certain ideas just for the sake of disagreeing. It's a generally accepted fact that the Southern region of the US is not open to diversity. Yet some of you pretend that I am telling a straight-up lie.
That's not a fact; that's an opinion. PS: from where I stand (a Southern US city), knowing gay people here and being an ethnic minority myself, I can tell you from my experience that that's a straight-up lie.
BTW, here's an idea: why don't you try living in a Southern US big city as gay person and tell me what you think about it? While you're there, you may want to befriend other gay people who willfully live in cities like Houston, Dallas, San Diego or Atlanta. Not people with a chip on their shoulder, but people who genuinely stay there because they have found a life there and enjoy it. You might be surprised by what you hear.
There's a difference between a random attack on the subway in the middle of the night and a police force invading a gay bar for no apparent reason. Hate crimes are a fact of life, and they are not a representation of anything. However, when homophobia is so ingrained in society that law enforcement is staging phony raids on gay bars, that is a reflection on the city's homophobia.
The reason was drugs. You can probably offer a valid case for the US' draconian drug laws, but that's another story.
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