Rainbow Laces

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  1. What I Think

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    Feel like I'm putting my neck on the line a bit here but...

    I really can't understand the negativity around it. There IS a problem with how LGBT people are treated - see homophobic chants aimed at Brighton fans; the 'no, I won't bake a cake for you because you're gay'. As a white, straight guy, I'm on the wrong side of very few problems that are institutionalised, like homophobia or racism. I guess the word is empathy. What would it be like to walk a mile in the shoes of... I bet the answer is not pleasant.

    I think it's good to highlight a problem in our society and the knuckle-dragging-neanderthal homophobes may see they are on the wrong side of this (wishful thinking perhaps).
     
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    Conan Troutman Well-Known Member

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    Hardly putting your neck on the line - and who has said there is a problem? Nothing that I've seen.

    You're always going to get someone who disagrees but the vast majority seem to be behind it.
     
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    We had a thread on this last week. There were plenty that did have a problem for some reason, depressing as it is.
     
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    It is pretty depressing. Too many right wing snowflakes out there. If it doesn’t impact you but potentially makes someone else feel happy/ included what’s the problem?
     
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    Whats a right wing snowflake..?
     
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    Martin Bullock weren`t he one.
     
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    Those who have a hissy fit cos of rainbow laces or cos someone doesn’t wear a poppy or a million other non reasons to get offended but Don’t bat an eyelid that we flog weapons to terrorist sympathisers or that 30 odd percent of kids are in poverty. Melts to coin a phrase.
     
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    On the one hand I think the rainbow laces scheme is a good one but on the other hand I feel it's a bit patronising.
     
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    But isn’t a snowflake a left wing term? Thought the right wing were facist Nazis. Oh it’s so confusing.

    After asking the google gods. The definition seems to be “a young adult who is prone to taking offence and is less resilient than their previous generation, or as being too emotionally vulnerable to cope with views that challenge their own”.

    Right, i’m off to find my safe space ;)
     
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