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Alessandra
July 9th, 2011 | 1:35 pm

Is sex just like race?

As Franck notes, the equalization is farcical. However, beyond the farce, there is the underlying manipulative strategy of homosexualists.

In the book, “You are being lied to: the disinformation guide to media distortion,” by Russell Kick, there is an article is dedicated to chronicling the web of horribly distorted statistics and numbers spun by homosexuality activists referring to the number of cases for teen suicides. Quote:

Claiming a vast scale for the gay suicide problem was closely related to other themes emphasized by gay activists …, above all the transformation of homosexuality from a deviant or pathological state to a condition which attracted unmerited persecution.

It was all part of a process of constructing gays as victims of social injustice. In the US especially, modern movements claiming rights for a particular segment of the population have all been influenced to a greater or lesser degree by the rhetoric of the African-American civil rights movement and its emphasis on structural oppression and group victimization. …

A claim to collective victim status implied that the groups was “unjustly harmed or damaged by forces beyond their control,” and that victimization occurred chiefly or solely due to the essential characteristics of that group. On the analogy of civil rights legislation, it was thus the proper role and obligation of government to seek to prevent or compensate for this victimization.

Teen suicide … took a matter that had been previously viewed as one of personal misfortune or dysfunction, and presented it as the consequence of structural bias and victimization, and even of official conspiracy.

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Reality must not interfere with the gilded narrative spun by homosexual activists. Drumming and fomenting intense emotions about sexuality persecution and suffering has the most effect when manipulating the hearts and minds of their mostly privileged audience. Even more so when the activists in question do not have a real case for their wild persecution claims. But to liberals, this does not matter. Their cognitive selection functions marvelously on an individual and collective level, orchestrated largely by peer groups, educators, celebrities, and the media.

Together they must continue with their ignorant, fanatical, but highly pleasing collective tale, full of wildly distorted facts and numbers, guaranteed to make them fall over themselves over who will be the most touched and outraged, as the result of their extremely selective empathy.

I guess when you have such a myopic empathetic psychological structure, it does tend to get concentrated on just a couple of types of victimhood. For the rest, there is always lip service.

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quote from Philip Jenkins, 2001 book You Are Being Lied To – see also: Damned Lies and Statistics, Joel Best, 2001

mike
July 10th, 2011 | 8:38 am

Perhaps Professor Banzhaf will next sue WalMart, to get them to treat rich people and poor people exactly alike, so I can finally walk out with that big-screen TV I want.

mike
July 10th, 2011 | 8:41 am

Oh, and I feel the same way about my Ka-bar as Mr. Peters feels about his jackknife. Just looking at it brings back alot of memories.

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