The National Day of Silence

[SonicChaos7]

I think this is just an American thing, but who actually did it? This topic popped up on Gaia Online and I wanted to see what everyone else did. There were some ignorant people over there saying that if we didn't like/respect homosexuals if we didn't follow in the "silent protest."

[DragonBlaze]

Huh? Never heard of it. I'm not gonna be silent for gay people. If they want to be silent, fine, they can do so themselves.

[drenrin2120]

I did it, but I know plenty of people that didn't. And not all of them hated/disrespected homosexuals. Besides, the day of silence was more to raise awareness than to show respect. Plus, I don't know about your school, but in my school it was not only for the gays/lesbians, it was to raise awareness against discrimination for anything... race, skin color, religious preference, sexuality... etc.

[SonicChaos7]

I think it's a nice gesture, but when people start making it a big deal when people don't do it and say that I'm discriminating, then I get angry.

[drenrin2120]

Yeah, I agree. I had the opposite effect. People accused me of being gay. Ignorant f*cks. I told them striaght to their face, "F*ck you, you ignorant f*ck!"

Like my elegant use of the english vocab? :p

[SonicChaos7]

Yeah. It's dumb that when you support something, people automatically assume you're what you're supporting. I could support women's rights, does that make me a female? I could suuport bestiality (not that I would, mind you), but does that mean I like to have sex with animals? The ignorance of people these days is quite astounding.

[DragonBlaze]

Very nice dren :p

You know what I just thought about. They don't want to be descriminated, but by having a day of silence or whatever for them is doing just that. Sure, maybe its supposed to be respectful, but doesn't  it just seperate them from everyone else?

[drenrin2120]

lol, yeah, you could think that, but it was to raise awareness of the discrimination against them and, as I said before, other reasons people discriminate.

Black people did it too when there was segregation in the south. Women did it during the Women's Suffrage Movement. The way I look at it, it's just another people trying to be accepted for who they are in society. Which isn't too easy these days with so much controversy and so much BS.

EDIT: A bunch of my friends today surprised me by saying, "Being gay is so wrong." "God made Adam and Eve." "Gay people scare me." They didn't stop to think that not everyone believes in Jesus and that there are worse things to be scared of than gay people.

[SonicChaos7]

Well it's not really discriminating until they say something like: "Heterosexuals are stupid and they don't deserve to get married."

I guess the opposite of what's going on right now. You should get the point though. But I guess what you said could be. Not so sure.

[DragonBlaze]

Nah, I get it. Its just in a lot of cases where people want to be equal and stop discrimination against their ethic group or whatever, they do it by actually seperating themselves from other people. Something like this was on an epside of south park once :p

Lol, for the longest time I was against gay marrages. You know, the definition of 'marraige' is the union between a man and a woman, or something like that. So gay people couldn't get married with eachother, because it just doesn't work that way, but really, whats the big deal, they can just be 'parters' and its all good right? Well not really, by being 'married' you get special benifits from the government. So would it be fair for gay people not to be able to get these benifits? I don't think it is. We had a discussion about this in english class, our teacher was also talking about bestiality and cat sex. Its all beacuse of the literature we have to read...

Damn literature, why should I be forced to read a book where there's a rape scene every other page and they talk about cow f*cking. Seriously, the first book we had to read started off with the words "He stood naked". The next book started off with "cow f*cking".

And people wonder why I don't read...

I just got way off topic didn't I?

[Zeigue]

like 6 people in my school wore red shirts adn had liek name tags on and they didnt talk all day.

[SonicChaos7]

It what they chose to do. You can't really get upset about it.

[FFL2and3rocks]

Originally posted by Zeigue
like 6 people in my school wore red shirts adn had liek name tags on and they didnt talk all day.

LOTS of people at my school did that. A few hundred, maybe a thousand, I dunno. But a ton of people were.

[Drace]

Originally posted by DragonBlaze
Huh? Never heard of it. I'm not gonna be silent for gay people. If they want to be silent, fine, they can do so themselves.

[Razor]

I don't care about the gays. I mean, it doesn't bother me that they exist, and I do think they deserve equal rights, but it doesn't mean I'm gonna be quiet for them.