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Editorial: Sydney’s gay community is rightly hurt and angry. Police should not march in this year’s Mardi Gras (www.smh.com.au)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (12 children)

I'm not a member of the gay community at all, but I'm struggling to understand this decision.

It's not "the police" that did this - it's an ex boyfriend who also happens to be a copper. I don't believe there's any insinuation that the NSW police haven't done their jobs properly investigating the murders (someone please feel free to correct me if I've got this wrong), so why ask them not be inclusive by marching this year?

If a bricklayer murdered his ex boyfriend and their new lover the same way, would they ask all brickies (or tradies) to not march too? Inclusion is as much about not tarring everyone with the same brush as it is about tolerance and acceptance, and I feel the gay community could be making a misstep here.

Again, I'm not a member of the gay community, so I definitely can't know what people who are, are feeling about this. Just observing that, from the outside, their anger and distress appear to be misdirected in this particular instance.

[–] m13 -5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I read “I’m not part of the gay community” and I knew exactly what I would read next, just as I’ve read 1000 times before.

I’m so tired of reading this kind of drivel, taking the time to lay out all the history and facts, only to have it fall on deaf ears.

If you actually cared you’d do some research before posting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

My original comment was pretty clear on the fact that I was trying to understand an alternate perspective. Not history. History tells me about events - it doesn't help me understand why those events make people feel a certain way.

But, by all means, feel free to continue playing the exasperated victim card, and making assumptions about the other person in the conversation.

At least that way, you get to keep blaming everyone else for not making the effort to understand, rather than - you know - actually taking the time to help them understand.

Open minds require open minds.

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