Enough Ghey, Inc to go around
A surfeit of it, actually.
Tal Bachman: Why Does Everyone Have To Be Gay All the Time?
Wanna be gay? Great. I don't care. No one I know does. I grew up in a small, almost entirely Christian, dairy farming town in Washington forty plus years ago. No one there even cared. Sure, the jokes and teasing between friends were more common than now. But in terms of locals getting genuinely upset someone in the community might be gay? Nah.Outside our little community, out in the big wide world, metropolitan gay populations did their own thing. They had their own favorite musical artists (The Village People, Bowie, etc.), their own favorite bars and neighborhoods, their own favorite slang terms and books and movies—their own subculture. They didn't seem to care what straights did. Straights didn't seem to care what they did. That was just how it was. Live and let live.
Even the crusty old military veterans from World War II, Korea, and the recent Vietnam War I knew growing up didn't care. Several times, I heard older fellas say things like, "We had a guy in our platoon I'm pretty sure was queer, but I'll tell you what—he was one of the best damn soldiers we had. Wonder how he's doing now".
This wasn't détente. Détente implies mutual hostility had existed previously. But from what I could tell, there hadn't been much, or any. At least not recently. It seemed like what there had mostly been was America, where people—whatever their personal beliefs—didn't much care what consenting adults did in the privacy of their own homes. Straight couples didn't walk around publicly trumpeting whatever intimate hijinks they'd gotten up to at home. Neither did gays. That was just good manners. It was the code.
That said, obviously, around the country, there were cases of bullying. Those victims have my sincere sympathy. I'm only saying that, for the most part, by the time I came along in the '70s and '80s, a live-and-let-live ethic predominated in America when it came to homosexual behavior and subculture.
Things have changed. Live-and-let-live isn't good enough anymore, evidently. Now, everyone and everything has to be gay, or go gay, so to speak, at a moment's notice.
(I guess I should clarify "be gay" and "go gay". I'm using these phrases in an expansive sense, so as to include verb phrases like "to publicly fawn over", "to fly flags about", "to wildly applaud and cheer for", "to dress up in flamboyant colors and march in parades for", "to wear celebratory logos on my team jersey for", "to view as a sacrosanct population whose self-appointed representatives can never be questioned about, or faulted for, anything", etc.).
Like racial bigotry and religion-based squabbling, anti-gay sentiment is a universal constant—always been with us, always will be, just one of the less-appealing aspects of what they call the human condition. Yes, it’s only true of a small minority of us, but it’s there nonetheless, and the least trace of bigotry or intolerance will always be plenty enough to provoke paroxysms of frothing hatred among Loony-Left hysterics.
That being so, Leftard cultists have pushed Normals well beyond the bounds of mere tolerance and acceptance as part of an ongoing campaign of destruction and subjugation, now insisting that we all must actively celebrate Teh Ghey. As their mantra has it, “the personal is political.” Which covers one hell of a lot of ground. Or, as the sardonic Righty counter-slogan translates, You Will Be MADE To Care.
Anyway, as you might have heard, the military is now gay. Hallmark movies are now gay. TV ads are now gay. Novels, elementary school curricula, baseball, popular songs, marriage, Christian denominations, basketball, children's library readings—all gay. Everything is, or can be, any time the cultural Stalinists decide. And everyone must instantly erupt in wild, pro-gay cheering whenever our overlords command, just like North Korean peasants when Kim Jong-Un shows up for a public appearance. Included in this new mandatory cheering law are all those people who are totally indifferent to private, adult-consenting, sexual behavior. If you don't instantly cheer or comply on command, you're a "hater". (That most of us are "indifferenters", and just want to watch a football game—not suffer through yet more stentorian declamations from guys like Roger Goodell—has never crossed their mind).
Thinking over all this, you start to wonder if there's some point where ordinary people are going to kind of get "gayed out" (I just made that up). Maybe the constant hectoring will transform indifference into exasperation, and then exasperation into something like aversion. How would that be “progress”?
I even wonder if the radicals might one day frazzle mainstream gays. Seriously, how many gay guys or gals do you know who constantly evangelize their gayness to everyone? The gay guys I know aren't like that. They're just gay. They're not loud, hectoring, needy, obnoxious shouters, demanding everyone start pro-gay cheering for them. They're just gay. And you're just straight. And if you're friends, you're friends. Easy. You wonder when or if the mainstream guys are ever going to tell the loudmouths to tone it down—and even more, tell them to get off the underage drag queen shows and leave the kids out of things (perhaps a topic for another day).
I don't know where this all ends. All I know is, what consenting adults get up to behind closed doors, I don't care about. And I know that when I want to watch a sporting contest or a movie or TV series, I just want to watch that thing. I don't want to watch a miniature Gay Pride parade shoehorned into that thing—no more than I'd want to see a miniature Straight Pride, White Pride, Black Pride, Midget Pride, Tall People Pride, or any other kind of pride shoehorned into it.
All just part and parcel of the divide-and-conquer Left Project, see; make no mistake, the suspicious similarity noted by Bachman above with Kim Jong-Un’s repressive regime is no accident.
Another thing characteristic of all Leftists everywhere: no matter how much you concede to them, it will never be enough. Just standing on the sidewalk smiling as the parade goes by won’t cut it; no, we must all get out into the street and march along with them, clapping and dancing and cheering every step of the route. Nothing less will do.
This is exactly why one must never, ever compromise with the Left—they can never be sated or satisfied, even too much is never enough.
That axiom is expressible in another slogan, this one of my own devising: Give ‘em an inch, and they’ll take absolutely everything. Best, then, not to give them a gott-damn thing, to fight them instead over every single last inch of ground. That way, at least you might stand a chance of keeping something of what you already had before they started crowding you.
It's simple, the LGBT... and Maoist Left communities have standards and rules, for what you can and can't do or say or write. And they enforce these rules and standards, up to and including the use of brute physical force. They have self-respect for themselves and for their communities, and they do not allow themselves to be disrespected. They fight back. On the other hand, the "Right" isn't even a community, and in the few places where community exists, there are no rules or standards which are upheld - and that means, effectively, that there are no rules or standards. They allow themselves to be disrespected, and the reward for that is more disrespect - they are willing punching bags for those who *do* have self respect.
"The general sentiment of mankind is that a man who will not fight for himself, when he has the means of doing so, is not worth being fought for by others, and this sentiment is just. For a man who does not value freedom for himself will never value it for others, or put himself to any inconvenience to gain it for others. Such a man, the world says, may lie down until he has sense enough to stand up. It is useless and cruel to put a man on his legs, if the next moment his head is to be brought against a curbstone.
A man of that type will never lay the world under any obligation to him, but will be a moral pauper, a drag on the wheels of society, and if he too be identified with a peculiar variety of the race he will entail disgrace upon his race as well as upon himself. The world in which we live is very accommodating to all sorts of people. It will cooperate with them in any measure which they propose; it will help those who earnestly help themselves, and will hinder those who hinder themselves. It is very polite, and never offers its services unasked. Its favors to individuals are measured by an unerring principle in this—viz., respect those who respect themselves, and despise those who despise themselves. It is not within the power of unaided human nature to persevere in pitying a people who are insensible to their own wrongs and indifferent to the attainment of their own rights. The poet was as true to common sense as to poetry when he said,
Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow.
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This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1857-frederick-douglass-if-there-no-struggle-there-no-progress/
The gay or trans activists, like most activists, are trying to push everyone into "you're either with us or against us". The numbers don't look good for them if they manage to polarize the population.
The problem is, as you say, that these activists are just pawns in the divide and conquer game. I have no problem with beating the bejesus out of "activists" who commit vandalism to "get attention for our cause" but they're not the source of the problem. The real source is a much harder target.