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
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.
...
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.
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.
...
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.