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50 murdered in mass shooting at gay nightclub in Orlando

NUMBERS2357

June 12, 2016
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/r/MensRights
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/13/us/orlando-nightclub-shooting.html?_r=0
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Title 50 murdered in mass shooting at gay nightclub in Orlando
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Date June 12, 2016 9:01 PM UTC
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Feminist Writer in The Atlantic argues that men have "emotional illiteracy", women have innate cognitive advantages in working in groups, and women ought to earn more than men in the future.

40 upvotes
January 19, 2015
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Is there/should there be a subreddit for people who are sympathetic to MRA issues, but also are politically liberal?

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May 8, 2016
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[–]NUMBERS2357[S] 42 points43 points44 points 10 years ago (31 children) | Copy Link

Reason why I'm posting it here is, men's sexuality is demonized by many people, and this is especially true of gay men. Combine that with the fact that people see violence against men as less of a big deal than violence against women, and it's not surprising you see so much violence against gay men. As far as I can tell, this was a nightclub that catered mostly to gay men.

If there's gonna be something on here when some feminist hates on men just for being attracted to women, there should be something on here when someone murders 50 men just for being attracted to men.

[–]loddfavne 14 points15 points16 points 10 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

someone murders 50 men just for being attracted to men.

I think this sums it up nicely, and I think most people will miss the obvious connection. Somebody murders men for being attracted to men.

The right for men to be attracted to other men without being murdered for it is pretty darn important. At least it was for those poor souls.

[–]bettingdog000 5 points6 points7 points 10 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

women died as well just letting you know.

[–]omegaphallic 1 point2 points3 points 10 years ago (22 children) | Copy Link

I understand your logic and it is very sound.

Killing 50 people for being gay or being friends with gay men, its a vile disguisting act, an attack against the gay community and men, and even all people who believe in freedom.

Its the act of a violent thug, who I hear was mentally unstable, so its a reminder of how important it is to address mental health and get people the treatment they need so this never happens again.

I feel bad the dead and injuried gay men and their friends, their surviving family members, and those traumatized by what they saw happen. I feel bad for the guts father and those muslims that are disgusted by this act, for they shall be the targets those jerks looking to punish someone for what happened, even though most muslims in America had nothing to do with.

Sad truth is this will boost Trumps populatity numbers.

[–]NUMBERS2357[S] 4 points5 points6 points 10 years ago (9 children) | Copy Link

He was pretty much gloating on Twitter earlier. But I don't know if it will boost his numbers. I guess it helps his narrative about terrorism, but it also is a hate crime against a group that people generally like these days but the right openly hated for a long time - as recently as 2009, most Republicans in Congress voted against classifying crimes against gay people as hate crimes.

Plus, Hillary has more experience in government, so I think crisis shit also counts in her favor for that reason. Especially since Trump is a moron.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points5 points 10 years ago (8 children) | Copy Link

He was not gloating. You are drinking the kool-aid and repeating a lie.

Trump was thanking his supporters for thanking him for being a voice for these people. That tweet was then twisted by the hatemongerers on the left and the sour-grapes neocons on the right to somehow mean that he was gloating about the killings.

In the very same tweet he said that BUT...now is a time for being tough and smart.

[–]NUMBERS2357[S] -1 points0 points1 point 10 years ago (7 children) | Copy Link

I know gloating when I see it, and he was gloating. That's my reaction, not something based on what some people online said.

And now today he's trying to imply that Obama supports ISIS, and Roger Stone said it's a false flag attack.

All this from the party that, as I mentioned, didn't want to give gay people hate crimes protection, and used to talk about natural disasters as punishment for homosexuality, now suddenly they're so concerned about gay people.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (6 children) | Copy Link

Quote what he said that you saw gloating. Not an interpretation of what he said, but an exact quote.

[–]NUMBERS2357[S] -1 points0 points1 point 10 years ago (5 children) | Copy Link

"Appreciate the Congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism."

Of course, you won't respond to the point about hate crimes, or how he's said Obama is supporting ISIS, or how his surrogate said it's a false flag.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago* (4 children) | Copy Link

Nice job quoting only half the tweet. Now here's the full tweet for the real context:

"Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism, I don't want congrats, I want toughness & vigilance. We must be smart!"

Hmm, seems a bit different now!

Gloating? That's stretching quite far. Telling people to be smart and vigilant is about saving their lives.

Sorry he didn't post a pretty ribbon on Facebook and ask people to share it while sitting in a circle and sing kumbayah. He just wants to save the lives of people who are still alive instead of wallowing in inertia and virtue-signalling, which is far, far better than anyone else is doing.

[–]NUMBERS2357[S] -1 points0 points1 point 10 years ago (3 children) | Copy Link

I'm not hiding from the rest of the tweet, a tweet that I know you're familiar with since you already referenced it. I'm doing exactly what you asked me to do: quote the part that's gloating.

It really isn't different with the rest. Segueing from gloating to campaign rhetoric doesn't mean he wasn't gloating.

And for the record, I didn't share a pretty ribbon on Facebook, nor do I care if anyone else does (nor did the gay people I know on Facebook either, actually).

Of course, you won't respond to the point about hate crimes, or how he's said Obama is supporting ISIS, or how his surrogate said it's a false flag.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

Thanking people isn't gloating, sorry. Especially when it's followed by a context that has a strong "BUT" feel to it. Also, Trump properly called out Islamic terrorism as a threat. The backlash is over people who didn't want to admit he's right. If people truly believe that he "gloated" about being right, it begs the question as to why those same people don't credit him with actually being right.

It's just the same old, same old: trying to throw whatever accusation at the wall they can to see what sticks. No twisted interpretation is too low.

Don't know enough about the hate crime stuff. Frankly, most of the hate in the conversation is the hate people have toward western civilization, and projecting that hate onto other people.

[–]ThePigmanAgain 3 points4 points5 points 10 years ago (4 children) | Copy Link

Sad truth is this will boost Trumps populatity numbers.

That's not a sad truth, it's the only upside i can see to this hideous occurrence. Hey, if you can use this post to bash Trump, i can use it to boost Trump.

Vote Trump -- He Ain't That Bad

[–]agiganticpanda 4 points5 points6 points 10 years ago (3 children) | Copy Link

Nah - he just takes out full page ads towards black men falsely accused of rape.

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1838466.1403324800!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/trump21n-1-web.jpg

[–]ThePigmanAgain 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

Oh, noes! Not an ad from 25 years ago!

[–]agiganticpanda -1 points0 points1 point 10 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

And? Has be shown growth about those types of opinions? Not in my eyes.

[–]ThePigmanAgain -1 points0 points1 point 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

I don't know, has he endorsed the death penalty lately? If not, then it is pretty irrelevant what he said a quarter of a century ago. But then, you already knew that.

[+]Pariahdog119 -12 points-11 points-10 points 10 years ago (6 children) | Copy Link

Sad truth is this will boost Trumps populatity numbers.

This would never have happened under a Trump administration!

Because all the Latino victims would have been deported!

make America hate again

[–]Cheveyo 9 points10 points11 points 10 years ago (4 children) | Copy Link

Because all the Latino victims would have been deported!

It's a little racist to assume we're all here illegally.

[–]Pariahdog119 7 points8 points9 points 10 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

But Tumblr told me I can't be racist because I'm Latino...

[–]alclarkey 5 points6 points7 points 10 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

Except against Muslims, you can be racist against Muslims.

(Shhh. Just forget the fact the Muslim isn't a race)

[–]Pariahdog119 4 points5 points6 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

But can I be sexist against Westerners, xenophobic against my family, and homophobic against straight people? Because I really wanna.

[–]blueoak9 -1 points0 points1 point 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Like that would matter to trump.

[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points0 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

No, Trump is just getting out or disempowering the people who hate our own country.

[–]Capitalsman 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Feminists and sjws in the athiest spaces love pointing out how misogynist holy books are and yet they completely overlook the fact that all of the anti homosexual passages are specifically anti gay men and in general dictate men's sexual behavior.

[+]NWOslave -9 points-8 points-7 points 10 years ago (3 children) | Copy Link

This has nothing to do with "men's sexuality" Is screwing a goat "men's sexuality"? Some guys screw goats. How about a screwing a corpse? Is that "men's sexuality"? Some guys do that as well. This is nothing more than using a tragedy to promote the saul alinsky big tent theory to get as many groups/individuals to be sympathetic and join whatever group is being promoted. Right now every damned group is touting their horn of goodie goodness.

Join the MRAs we love the LGBT.

Join feminists we love the LGBT.

Join the leftists we love the LGBT.

Join the atheists religion is evil we love the LGBT.

Join the right we told you islam was bad we'll protect the LGBT.

Join the LGBT we love everybody we're so fucking great.

Join muslims we abhor the atrocity we love the LGBT.

Join the jews we love the LGBT.

Find me a group that isn't clamoring to suck someone, anyone under the wing of whatever group their in.

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points14 points 10 years ago* (1 child) | Copy Link

gay men are still men. literally nothing that we as MRAs do is against gays. men are affected by tons of issues from suicide to false sexual assault accusations to prison sentencing to homelessness to divorce rape to university and workplace discrimination. instead, look at these groups...

  • feminists have cockblocked the LGBT movement for DECADES, to the point of calling in favors and getting their speakers censored.
  • leftists, although they fought for LGBT rights, are defending muslims' "right" to kill gays by defending islam. fuck that noise.
  • atheists are fine, but wtf does atheism have to do with LGBT?
  • "the right" is split... you have social conservatives, who hate LGBT (but don't kill them), and libertarians, who are apathetic about LGBT because what they do in their bedroom is none of our fucking business.
  • LGBT of course protects LGBT. duh.
  • muslims do NOT love the LGBT. http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/articles/opinion-polls.aspx clearly demonstrates that islamic hatred of gays is the norm. the muslims who defend LGBT are a stark minority.
  • jews like atheists, have nothing to do with LGBT.

other than LGBTs, the only group that has a leg to stand on here, are MRA. we don't support pedophiles, and we don't support rapists. but we do support men's rights to due process, free association, and privacy.

[+]NWOslave -7 points-6 points-5 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

All these groups are the same, all of them are supremacist organizations. They all have the identical ideology, victim/supremacy. Where's the LGBT when a bunch of straights get slaughtered? Where's the ADL when a bunch of non jews get slaughtered? Where's the feminists when straight men get slaughtered? Where's black lives matters when whites get slaughtered? I've been around a long time and I've yet to see a single person from any of these self proclaimed victim groups give a rats ass about an atrocity about anyone who isn't a member of their group other than to score empathy points. And every one of these groups is a supremacist organization identical to the Aryan nation and they should be treated with the same contempt as the Aryan nation.

[–]BaldursShield 7 points8 points9 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Men in general, but especially gay men, have been falsely accused of pedophilia. The rights of gay men is an MRA issue. Maybe you should look up the difference in violence that gay men face compared to gay women for their sexuality.

[–]ThePigmanAgain 20 points21 points22 points 10 years ago (21 children) | Copy Link

Terrible news, of course, but the first thing that came to mind was that at this very moment hordes of feminists are cooking up articles blaming it on toxic masculinity rather than The Religion of Peace. That's the nice feminists, of course, the less pleasant ones will be celebrating the fact that there are now a couple of dozen less males in the world.

[–]HardKase 4 points5 points6 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Well you fucking called it.

http://imgur.com/Ywwjlio

[–]Awesomebox5000 3 points4 points5 points 10 years ago (17 children) | Copy Link

Are you aware that by making uncited accusations as you are, you're doing the exact thing you accuse feminists of doing? If would be one thing if you were commenting on something that actually happened, but all you're doing is constructing a strawman and falling into the stereotypical misogynist routine. Be better than that.

[–]eixan 3 points4 points5 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Are you aware that by making uncited accusations as you are, you're doing the exact thing you accuse feminists of doing?

Well this is the mensrights sub so we can bring up issues that most of the people in this sub know by now and just accept a-priori because they've been brought up many times with sources to back them up.

Anyways here's the sources:

Heres the feminist goldsmith society encouraging the silencing of a speaker who is critical of Islam from the standpoint of women's rights.

the feminist goldsmith society supported muslim protestors for interrupting a speech by muslim apostate Maryam Namazie about 11 minutes in

Here's an article by the independent on the topic.

http://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/muslim-students-from-goldsmiths-university-s-islamic-society-heckle-and-aggressively-interrupt-a6760306.html

Rotherham scandal and recent Muslim attacks on women in various European cities about which feminists have been silent or conflicted demonstrate that feminism is incapable of criticizing islam

[–]HardKase 1 point2 points3 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

http://imgur.com/Ywwjlio

[–]smokeeater04 3 points4 points5 points 10 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

So, tell us about your box.

[–]hackableyou 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

At first I was like what, but then I realized his name.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points5 points 10 years ago (11 children) | Copy Link

but all you're doing is constructing a strawman

That's definitely true.

and falling into the stereotypical misogynist routine.

Only if you generalize from cynical beliefs about the behaviour of feminists to "hatred" and from feminists to "all women", which wouldn't be very logical or honest.

[–]eixan 3 points4 points5 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Only if you generalize from cynical beliefs about the behaviour of feminists to "hatred" and from feminists to "all women", which wouldn't be very logical or honest.

We don't see any male equivalent movement that is supported.by the government and gets billions of dollars. If men knew that such a movement existed we'do nuke that movement from orbit.!The thing is we have mainstream magazines like cosmo spreading misandry

Girls in elementary school wear shirts that say "boys are stupid throw rocks at them".

According to the American psychological assocation women have 5 times the ingroup bias then men have!

[–]Awesomebox5000 -3 points-2 points-1 points 10 years ago (9 children) | Copy Link

Blindly hating on feminists is definitely in the misogynist handbook so I'm going to have to disagree with you here. You're free to disagree right back at me but short of an incredibly well reasoned and succinct argument, you're not going to change my mind on this one. If you have to write a wall of text to get your point across, you don't really understand your own point.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points10 points 10 years ago* (2 children) | Copy Link

Go ahead and disagree. Misogyny isn't just some malleable word that is what you say it is. It actually has a definition.

Not all feminists are female. Not all females are feminist. In fact, feminists are a small minority of females in pretty much every western nation, and a tiny, tiny minority of the men. Unless he hates women (in general) for no other reason than they are women, it's not misogyny.

I get that you probably want to generalize comments about feminists to all women, because that makes it easy to levy the misogyny smear, but you're not being at all honest if you do.

[–]Awesomebox5000 -5 points-4 points-3 points 10 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

That's a terrible argument.

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points11 points 10 years ago* (0 children) | Copy Link

It's terrible from a feminist perspective, sure, because they LOVE taking attacks they face and pretending that they are attacks on women in general. It's very useful to drop the misogyny smear whenever they face resistance because it allows them to mentally dismiss their critics outright as haters.

It's just a little mental bum pat they give themselves, though, when they do it ... and it's ultimately neither accurate nor honest.

You can do this with any subset of any larger group:

  • If I hate MRAs, does it mean I hate men? Nope.
  • If I hate the Los Angeles Lakers, does it mean I hate the NBA? Nope.
  • If I hate Democrats, does it mean I hate Americans? Nope.

[–]Lethn 2 points3 points4 points 10 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

It's not blind to hate them for ignoring victims when it doesn't fit their narrative of Muslims always being the persecuted victims so fuck off. That is the exact attitude people have when it comes to black on black violence, you just don't want to hear any of it and you're projecting that onto us by trying to claim it's 'misogynist'.

I'm sick of people like you who deliberately ignore reality when it suits you and won't even face up to the fact that the guy who did this was Muslim and was taught by his religion to hate gays, it's fucking cowardly.

[–]Awesomebox5000 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

I'm sick of people like you who deliberately ignore reality when it suits you and won't even face up to the fact that the guy who did this was Muslim and was taught by his religion to hate gays.

I haven't mentioned anything about Muslims so the only one ignoring reality here is you. The blind hatred I was talking about was how the top comment (at the time of my oc) was conspiring about feminists conspiring to shift blame from Islam to toxic masculinity when no evidence exists to support the theory.

[–]Lethn 4 points5 points6 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Er, there's already plenty of evidence that's showing that already, the subreddit is getting spammed with it because the feminists are in damage control mode just like with Cologne.

[–]ThePigmanAgain 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

Blindly hating on feminists is definitely in the misogynist handbook

Clearly, you are talking bullshit. By your reasoning, hating on MRAs is misandry! Seriously, get the fuck out.

[–]Awesomebox5000 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

What's clear is that the Mensrights sub has been taken over by a bunch of women hating bitches. I see less and less support for brothers and more and more complaining about how evil feminists are. To the point where it's usually the top comment when I get into the thread. I take a stand and y'all jump down my throat drawing all sorts of nonsensical conclusions with no evidence. I'm done with this sub.

I support men's rights not manchild rights. Grow up.

[–]ThePigmanAgain 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

LOL

[–]ThePigmanAgain 2 points3 points4 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Google "straw man," fool. It does not mean what you think it means. As for the rest of your comment, it is very stupid. The last time this shit happened there were, indeed, feminist articles blaming maleness rather than Islam. And if you think the feminists who want men reduced to 10 percent of the population aren't glad there are a few less now, you are totally retarded.

[–]eixan 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

less pleasant ones will be celebrating the fact that there are now a couple of dozen less males in the world.

I bet they were wishing that it was men who wanted to do the dirty deed with women instead of men. Removing more men who would otherwise go on to soil women instead of themselves

[–]MenandBoysareGood 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

I thought the very same thing.

[–]fengpi 10 points11 points12 points 10 years ago (13 children) | Copy Link

Yeesh, that is awful.

Of course, the main concern of the Social Justice crowd will be about Islamophobia.

The victims of a terrorist assault might have been racist, see, and that's the big problem. /s

[–]Pariahdog119 -1 points0 points1 point 10 years ago (12 children) | Copy Link

But they were overwhelmingly Latino. Latinos can't be racist. I know, because I'm Latino, and I hate Arabs for being Arab, which isn't racism at all, because Latinos aren't whi

OK, this is making my head hurt. I can understand now why C. S. Lewis refused to write a sequel to the Screwtape Letters.

[–]fengpi 2 points3 points4 points 10 years ago (11 children) | Copy Link

Hatred is a white thing.

If you go to Africa and hear a Kikuyu snarl about a Luo? Well, something something colonialism.

In all seriousness, I don't understand the likening of Islamophobia with racism, seeing as how the SJW crowd will also proudly point-out that Islamic people can be any race.

[–]oneonezeroonezero 4 points5 points6 points 10 years ago (10 children) | Copy Link

Islamophobia is a real though. Some of my Muslim acquaintances just had their house vandalized and threats made against them because they are Muslim.

[–]fengpi 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (9 children) | Copy Link

I never said it wasn't a thing, I was acutely aware of hate crimes committed in the wake of 9/11. I just don't see how it can be considered racism since Muslims are not a race. If one wishes to argue anti-Arab racism, that's a bit different.

[–]oneonezeroonezero 3 points4 points5 points 10 years ago (8 children) | Copy Link

For the same reason Sikhs get attacked due to being mistaken for being Muslims; there is a clear image of a dark skinned person with black hair and a beard equalling Muslim. The hatred of people based on affiliation with a group is by its nature irrational, so one should not be supervised when they act as such.

[–]fengpi 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago* (7 children) | Copy Link

one should not be supervised when they act as such.

"Supervised?" I think you mean "surprised". Also, the "they" in that last sentence could refer to either Muslims or haters, so I'm not entirely sure what it is that you're trying to say.

Well, Islam bills itself as being open to all humans regardless of race. So does Christianity. I don't consider an anti-Christian animus to be racist; by the same token, I don't consider an anti-Islamic animus to be racist either. Prejudicial and ignorant perhaps, but not racist. One's faith can be changed, seeing as how religious conversion and apostasy are things. One's birth-features cannot be changed.

[–]oneonezeroonezero 2 points3 points4 points 10 years ago (6 children) | Copy Link

The "they" refuser to the haters. Blanket hatred is irrational, thus, irrational people do irrational things.

Well, Islam bills itself as being open to all humans regardless of race.

Sure but search Muslim man https://duckduckgo.com/?q=muslim+man&t=canonical&iax=1&ia=images From the preponderance of images one can create a stereotype image fairly quickly.

The argument that it isn't racists but prejudicial is purely academic.

[–]fengpi 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago* (5 children) | Copy Link

I see, so if I were the kind of monster who were to attack a school full of Muslim children, who lack beards, that wouldn't be me attacking a stereotypical image so that wouldn't be racist... I just find that line of thinking to be a bit weird. "Racism" actually has a meaning which is not infinitely stretchable. There actually needs to be a racial component rather than me simply hating stereotypical images in my head.

Let me know when Islam can actually be considered a race rather than a faith.

[–]oneonezeroonezero 1 point2 points3 points 10 years ago (4 children) | Copy Link

It doesn't matter too much to the bullet.

[–]WolfeBane84 3 points4 points5 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

50 confirmed killed, 53 wounded

I wonder how many shots were fired.

I've often wondered why in mass shootings the hit ratio was always so off.

I guess this is just a "fish in a barrel" situation.

[–]needs28hoursaday 2 points3 points4 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Have a thought today for the men and women who were injured and killed in the attack. Stand by each other no matter what and prove that gay Bros are still Bros.

[–]baserace 2 points3 points4 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Let's see if these people are seen as gay, or as men.

[–]TheRavenousRabbit 2 points3 points4 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

If it had been an attack on a lesbian nightclub, the media wouldn't be censoring. They'd be up in arms about homophobia and sexism.

[–]Funcuz 4 points5 points6 points 10 years ago (10 children) | Copy Link

My heart certainly goes out to these people but I'm just not seeing the MHRM connection.

[–]JohnKimble111 11 points12 points13 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Basically, any time you see anti-homosexual laws/actions the victims are almost always men. Homophobia itself is an MRA issue since men are overwhelmingly the victims.

As with almost all such facts about inequalities facing men, virtually none of the above is ever acknowledged anywhere in the MSM.

[–]baserace 6 points7 points8 points 10 years ago (8 children) | Copy Link

Another angle is how this is being reported. That they are gay seems to be the headline news. That they are men seems to be unimportant.

Reverse the genders and imagine the uproar about violence against women.

[–]JebberJabber 4 points5 points6 points 10 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

If a lesbian club was targeted for that reason? I think the media would equally be all over that fact. Which is appropriate, since it is the motivator.

[–]baserace 1 point2 points3 points 10 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

Absolutely appropriate, I'm talking about how it would also be heralded as more evidence of the epidemic of violence against women.

[–]JebberJabber 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Maybe it would. It would be appropriate in this guy's case, he hated seeing women allowed to drive and resented having to be polite to women to be considered for sex.

Some say homophobia is linked to misogyny. They do seem to be found together quite often, depending of course on how you define misogyny.

[–]Lethn 2 points3 points4 points 10 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

Apparently there are lots of reports about Social Media trying to silence any connection with Islam and of course, including reddit, feminists are going to be completely silent on this issue because it's a group they're supposed to care about being killed by a religion they defend no matter how ridiculous and violent it acts.

[–]baserace 2 points3 points4 points 10 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

I've seen the /r/news vitrual whitewashing of the story, and now subsequent State of the Sub mod post, where they getting absolutely slaughtered for their political and ideological bias, and censorship.

Where else is it being silenced in the media/social media at large?

[–]Lethn 1 point2 points3 points 10 years ago* (0 children) | Copy Link

I don't know, I'll have to check to be sure, but it's definitely happening on reddit. It pisses me off a lot and I will be as angry as anybody else on this issue because people like Awesomebox5000 are acting as if it's a non-issue yet their attitudes are precisely what is covering up this kind of behaviour from Muslims and enables them to carry out these attacks.

[–]dagthegnome 1 point2 points3 points 10 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

He didn't target these men just because they were men. He targeted them because they were gay men. He didn't hate them because they were men. He hated them because they were gay men.

[–]baserace 2 points3 points4 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

I never said he targeted them just because they were men, I'm just wondering how the men part will be ignored. And of course how this would be reported as more evidence of violence against women if the genders were reversed.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

This could be a story about demonizing men but it's going to be about demon men.

[+]jidery -11 points-10 points-9 points 10 years ago (3 children) | Copy Link

It's a tragedy but also has no relation to men's rights

[–]omegaphallic 13 points14 points15 points 10 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

Of course it has everything to do with men's rights, gay men are still men!

This was an act of homophobic mysandry!

[–]BaldursShield 9 points10 points11 points 10 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

Sarcasm? Historically gay men have been falsely stigmatized when compared to gay women. This is indeed a men's rights issue.

[–]omegaphallic 2 points3 points4 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

I don't think its sarcasm, just slight ignorence about how this is a men's rights issue.

[+]bettingdog000 -9 points-8 points-7 points 10 years ago (15 children) | Copy Link

this was a terrorist attack and 50 people died. there sexual choice is not the issue nor the color of their skin. some were not gay. was it not an attack on heterosexuals as well?

lets not get into this with sexual orientation and just see this for people.

[–][deleted] 17 points18 points19 points 10 years ago (12 children) | Copy Link

the guy pledged to ISIS, said he was pissed off for seeing two gay men kissing, so he drove across the state to a gay club, and shot at them like fish in a barrel. ISIS then claimed responsibility for the attack.

to the shooter, a violent muslim, their sexual choice is absolutely the issue. the problem is that stats are starting to show... islam has stark majorities in widespread support of extreme violence towards homosexuals.

[+]bettingdog000 -8 points-7 points-6 points 10 years ago (11 children) | Copy Link

simple question are gays human? was the world trade center a heterosexual attack or a human one?

[–]baskandpurr 7 points8 points9 points 10 years ago* (0 children) | Copy Link

You're perfectly right to say that these people are human but I think its a little unfair to take away the fact that this target was chosen specifically because those men were gay. Yes, muslims will attack anyone that offends them, gays, jews, cartoonists, film makers, its all fair game. But that doesn't mean that gay men were not specifically targeted this time.

On another note, this says a lot about the Omar Mateen's sexuality. He must have been really frustrated to see those men kissing, wanting to join in but having to stop himself. Why else would you choose this target?

[–]dagthegnome 4 points5 points6 points 10 years ago (7 children) | Copy Link

He didn't target them because they were human, or because they were (mostly) American. He didn't target this venue because it was the World Trade Center. He was a radical Islamist who decided he wanted to kill gay men because they were gay men. As far as he was concerned, gay men are not human. As a gay man, I am allowed to take that personally, and I am allowed to say that his Islamic ideology was part of the reason he did what he did.

[–]bettingdog000 -4 points-3 points-2 points 10 years ago (6 children) | Copy Link

ok well we agree to disagree. at no point are heterosexuals sexual choices an issue when they die. they are just dead people. so i will continue to see gays the same way

[–]dagthegnome 3 points4 points5 points 10 years ago (5 children) | Copy Link

"Agree to disagree" is what someone says when he realizes he's trying to defend the indefensible.

Heterosexuals' sexuality is not an issue when they are killed, especially in terrorist attacks, because the people who kill them don't target them as a result of their heterosexuality. They target them for other reasons, but extremists don't have a problem with heterosexuality. They have a problem with my sexuality.

This guy was a monster, who hated the people he killed because they were gay, who killed them because they were gay, or simply because they were near gay people. I'm not going to let anyone get away with trying to gloss over that.

[–]bettingdog000 -1 points0 points1 point 10 years ago* (4 children) | Copy Link

Heterosexuals' sexuality is not an issue when they are killed, especially in terrorist attacks, because the people who kill them don't target them as a result of their heterosexuality.

wrong have a good look at history. hate crimes go both way bud.

EDIT: this was also Latin night at the club.

[–]dagthegnome 1 point2 points3 points 10 years ago (3 children) | Copy Link

I challenge you to find one example anywhere in history of a mass killing of straight people for which the given reason was that they were straight.

Even leaving that aside, you've still ust admitted that this incident was a hate crime, and yet you've spent the rest of this conversation insisting that the reason this man hated these people should not be taken into consideration when discussing the crime.

There is no logic or substance to what you are saying.

[–]bettingdog000 -1 points0 points1 point 10 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

yet it was a hate crime against Latinos. from what i see from news he was a member of the club and visited often. so was he gay? if so was it still a hate crime? or was this gay on gay crime.

just off the top of my head i can say that white gays killed slaves quite often. and yes those reason were many. in fact i can go one even better, they were killed for having bigger penises. so yeah there's that.

you simply want to be a victim. hay if it works for you go for it. i am told often in this forum that being black does not give me the right to be a victim. the same goes for gays as well and whites.

[–]dagthegnome 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

For Christ's sake, how is it that we're still having this conversation? The latino victims of this attack weren't killed because they were Latino. The other visible minorities who died weren't killed because of their colour. They were killed because they were at a gay bar. The killer was a Muslim who hated gay people, who hated himself because his Islamic identity made it impossible to come to terms with his homosexuality. This was a hate crime against gay people. These people were killed because of homophobia, just as slaves who were killed by slaveowners were killed because of racism. You have a right to take that personally just as I have a right to take this personally. That doesn't mean I have the right to blame anybody other than the person who was responsible for the attack, but it will happen again if we don't draw attention to hlthe homophobic motivations for his actions.

Your effort to turn this debate into a personal attack on me only further proves that your arguments are incapable of standing on the basis of their own merit. We cannot reasonably discuss a crime or attempt to make redress without discussing the motives for it.

[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points0 points 10 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

it was violent muslims attacking westerners.

[–]bettingdog000 -3 points-2 points-1 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

yes.

[–]HotDealsInTexas 8 points9 points10 points 10 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

Garbage. It was very clearly motivated by the victims' sexual orientation. Just because some of the victims were straight doesn't mean it wasn't an anti-gay hate crime, any more than bombing a predominantly black church in the name of a white nationalist organization wouldn't be an anti-black hate crime if a couple white attendees were also killed.

[–]bettingdog000 -4 points-3 points-2 points 10 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

hey!!!!! the white guy that killed all those blacks was never considered a terrorist hell the cops got him burger king. this was a TERRORIST attack it's that simple. their sexual orientation is a side note at best.

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