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The Iron Jelloid

Once upon a time, d wrote:
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:56:50 +0100
The Real Doctor wrote:
On 26/08/11 11:01, d wrote:
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 02:31:19 -0700 (PDT)
wrote:
But, why, I ask was the guys horrible death worse because he was
homosexual? Would you or I not have felt the blows just as much?

For some people it seems that suffering for what you are is a worse
fate than
suffering for what you have. Presumably because you can change the latter
but not the former. Personally I think its a just a convenient soapbox for
self styled activists (ie people who make a lot of noise) who get
off on self
righteous indignation to jump up and down and bang their drum.

If Mr Shepherd had been killed by a couple of thugs who didn't like him,
or his clothes, that would have been dreadful but individual. By killing
him for what he was, they were also threatening other gay men, and it's
that threat which merited further punishment.

So if they'd killed him because they didn't like say his blue shirt then
they were threatening everyone who wore blue shirts? Do me a fscking favour.

Not so long ago a young woman was savagely beaten to death by a mob in a
park in Lancashire, entirely because of what she was wearing - she was a
Goth. The SOPHIE campaign was the result. Attacks on people for their
dress sense are not unknown, and an attack on someone who identifies
themselves as belonging to any given group does put others of the same
group in fear.

Suppose a serial killer started to kill people, and it was eventually
proven that the only common link between the murders was that all the
victims had been active posters on uk.railway. Wouldn't you find that a
little bit alarming, assuming you'd not yet been one of the victims and
the killer was still at large? I certainly would.

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- The Iron Jelloid