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yttrium | 8 years ago

If you're someone who donates to anti-gay causes in their free time and is subsequently surprised that gay people who work for you find that abhorrent enough to out your bigotry to the wider world, then I don't know what to say to you.

Do you deserve to work somewhere where your personal opinions are directly and indirectly causing harm to your coworkers and subordinates? No.

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quotemstr|8 years ago

Mere opinions do not cause harm. The idea that mere ideas can be literally harmful --- that speech is violence --- is at the root of much of the social acrimony of the past few years. Long experience shows that attempting to police thought and speech generally backfires, and dressing up the idea of censorship with avoiding "harm" doesn't obviate these lessons. Every censor everywhere has done the job in the name of the good: that doesn't make the action beneficial.

yttrium|8 years ago

Sure - but this has long surpassed 'ideas and opinions'. Oppression of gay people, minorities, and other marginalized groups is not founded in 'opinion' - it's a fact and representation of life. Gay people are currently in a situation where someone is trying to actively oppress them. When you donate to anti-gay causes, you're directly enabling harm.

This doesn't have anything to do with censorship - it has to do with letting people know that taking an active participatory position in oppression is not acceptable.