# I've had a change of heart: gay civil rights isn't like black civil rights

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 27, 2011, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-a-change-of-heart-gay-civil-rights-isnt-like-black-civil-rights/569121 "2011-01-27T00:14:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-a-change-of-heart-gay-civil-rights-isnt-like-black-civil-rights/569121/61 "2011-01-28T01:19:24Z")

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> [@Paranoid\_Randroid](#):
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> You disgust me! Who else am I going to oppress!?

Women and children, but only if you insist that’s one category, not two.

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**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-a-change-of-heart-gay-civil-rights-isnt-like-black-civil-rights/569121/62 "2011-01-28T01:31:01Z")

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> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#):
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> You have put me in the difficult position of un-demobbing the monkeys.

I had to. Chimera’s Bush Meat was running low on Monkey Brains.

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**Author:** ![Condescending\_Robot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a183cd/32.png) [@Condescending\_Robot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Condescending_Robot)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-a-change-of-heart-gay-civil-rights-isnt-like-black-civil-rights/569121/63 "2011-01-28T19:05:49Z")

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It’s not considered appropriate to go to the racist well for comedy in mainstream America. There are hosts of laws and social mores protecting black civil rights. The battle there is largely _won_.

Gays, on the other hand, have no protection, and it’s entirely accepted that the largest religious movements and political parties in America use demonization of homosexuals as their guiding principle. Whether homosexuals are people is considered a topic for “civil” debate, and to accuse the side that does not believe in the personhood of a certain class of being Nazis is the only thing that will bring condemnation.

So yeah, black civil rights doesn’t compare to gay civil rights in 2011. Not at all.

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