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I just listened to a Radiolab podcast today discussing gay conversion therapy and a few other tidbits. The specifics are not as important for this topic but one thing that I thought was interesting was that one of the people interviewed was discussing how he was continually being called a nazi and a fascist for his views on being gay and mental illness. He said radical leftists (I believe that was the term he used) had published his home address and he and others at a conference had been forced to resort to hiring plainclothes security to walk with them at the conference. This was late 60s/early 70s.
None of this is new. Society is not hurtling down some deep dark political correctness path that is going to result in language police beating down your door for not calling someone a xir. This stuff has been happening for decades and extremists on both sides of the spectrum (real radical leftists and real nazis - not the 98% of everyone else in between) have and will continue to exist as long as time marches on. In general out lives are stunningly good compared to how the rest of the world lives right now, and compared to how people lived throughout history. In 50 years we will still be arguing about some of these silly things but I wager, unless some sort of horrific war occurs, life will be much, much better for the average person then, then it is today.
FWIW, CBC radio changed its "tune" on the song and is playing it again.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainmen...tate-1.4941087
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I actually heard that a lot of radio stations who initially pulled the song, ended up changing that decision after seeing the polls of the people genuinely offended, versus those who want to still hear the song. Of course, you don't hear a lot about that, because it isn't the sexy, controversial topic at that point.
Rylant
While I think it is absolutely horrible that they would equate him to a Nazi or a Fascist, and publishing his address is brutal, the way some people think of homosexuality and mental illness, is abhorrent. The destruction caused to the LGBT community and to people suffering from mental health by some people just by pushing gay conversion therapy is catastrophic.
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