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[–]Tarrock[S] 40 insightful - 7 fun40 insightful - 6 fun41 insightful - 7 fun -  (7 children)

marginalized

When you are promoted by every celebrity, politician, laws back you at every turn and all corporations use you as props, you are not marginalized.

vulnerable group

You arent vulnerable when laws protect you, celebrities and politicians and corporations destroy anyone that questions your 50% suicide rates and mental illness. You are protected and untouchable by anything except the rope or bullet you swallow on your own.

[–][deleted] 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

In many states: there's no'n stopping employers from firing employees for being LGBT or landlords from refusing to rent to LGBT — but there's also no'n stopping them from discriminating against straight people either.

But you have to take into consideration that these laws just make them say it was for something else; it doesn't actually solve the issue — but how common is discrimination, anyways? I'm from rural Arkansas, and the only discrimination I've ever witnessed was based on class. Online, I only ever hear about anti-White discrimination.

But on Reddit, LGBT people literally have zero worries, so long as they stick to the Democratic Party platform. The worst thing that can happen is someone uses mean words and gets perma-banned by the admins.

Now, where LGBT people are really marginalized and vulnerable are third world countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Mauritania — but the left will never call them out! But, I will note, that transgenders often have it easier than homosexuals in these countries; you can legally change your gender without surgery in Mauritania, yet gay men get stoned to death.

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    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    But being homosexual is a crime and gays get hanged so I don't think trans people are most oppressed group there.

    You're right. Saudi Arabia is the only one out of the three I listed where you can't legally change your gender.

    [–]carrymanhattan 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    interesting that Saudi is sunni and Iran is shia I wonder if it's along those lines

    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Hmm... maybe. I don't know anything about Islam, though.

    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    In Iran, homosexual men are forced to have SRS as part of conversion therapy.

    [–]asterias 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Saudi Arabia

    In those countries, you can face dire concequences for being openly gay (like organizing a gay parade), but in reality homosexuality is extremely widespread.