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Dozens attend 'Hetero Awesome Fest' in Idaho
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Because I don't even know where to start. The biggest part, I suppose, is that if you give them a space like this, it normalizes the movement. People stop feeling like there is something wrong with disliking the LGBT community, the movement grows as it is no longer stigmatized, and LGBT rights backslide.
Furthermore, holding a "hetero pride" festival during pride month is inherently bigoted as well. Pride month exists because straight people wouldn't let gay people express themselves otherwise. Your idea isn't totally unlike the idea of letting klansmen openly hold festivals during Black History month so they stop harassing black people.
@MossyFeathers Okay, so what is your alternative proposal? Send them to re-education camps to learn the right way to think (or at least fake it)? Round them and up fire them into the Sun? Maybe put them in concentration camps? What? Let's hear some ideas.
Like it or not, a free world means putting up with other people's shit, and that requires giving them space. Punishing people in what they consider their own space is only going to make things worse.
Don't stoop to your opponents' tactics.
@MossyFeathers I encourage you to read Sun Tzu's The Art of War. Which, despite the title, is mostly about AVOIDING conflict. He discusses this subject, though not exactly. Cornering people is dangerous and foolish, and an invitation to violence. Unless you're ready to DESTROY someone, just leave them alone.
But it's pride month, we can let bigots be bigots for a moment. We're already fighting them the rest of the year.