Tuesday, December 10, 2019

The Right Side of History

 For quite some time, those of us who don't wholeheartedly buy into the LGBTQWXYZPDQ agenda have been told that we are on the "wrong side of history" and that the tide of "millennials"  and subsequent generations would submerge would overwhelm us with increasing support for the LGBTQWXYZPDQ agenda.

But a strange thing happened, GLAAD conducted a survey, that gathered data about LGBTQWXYZPDQ acceptance, and found something interesting.    That the jury may still be out on the "right side of history".  

Blaire White wrote an interesting piece which I copied and linked to below.   If you read the piece, you'll understand why Ms White is unlikely to be categorized as a right wing homophobe or anything similar.  

This makes you wonder about people who treat opinion polls as something significant when it comes to things like right and wrong, morality, or the "right side of history".   I'll let Ms Wright give her thoughts rather than add mine.  I also posted the link to the study itself below.






"There appears to be some turbulence ahead for the LGBT community. According to a national survey by GLAAD, LGBT acceptance appears to be declining in America. Interestingly, it’s declining among a group that is often touted as the most accepting and socially “woke”—millennials.
The survey reports that the percentage of young people who reported being “somewhat” or “very” comfortable with LGBT people dropped from 53% to 45%. This is the second year in a row that the number has fallen. While many gay publications have shared this survey and rang the alarm, I’ve yet to see anyone online offer a measured opinion of why this is occurring beyond “ORANGE MAN BAD.”"

"I am a transgender woman and YouTuber who has witnessed LGBT discourse become more extreme and intense year after year. What used to simply be a conversation about marriage equality and treating those who are different than us as equals has become a cultural hailstorm. Our community’s most popular and decorated activists often preach the most extreme of our ideas rather our most practical. Buzzwords and genders are added into the community’s vernacular at such a rate that even I can’t keep up with them. What does that say about someone who is not within the community and their ability to keep pace with the dialogue?"

" I believe it is the T in LGBT (or whatever the current acronym is) that has contributed the most to the erosion of society’s understanding and acceptance of the community at large. When I transitioned 6 years ago, I remember being fearful of receiving rejection because of who I was. Now, I find myself fearful of rejection because of who trans activists have led the general public to believe I am. The push for 5-year-olds to transition, mandatory dating of trans people (unless you want to be called a bigot), and forced acceptance of biological males destroying female athletes in sports are among the most toxic ideas pushed by trans activists in 2019. As a trans woman myself, I believe none of them but often find myself anxious when meeting new people that they may think I do as a default."

"To be clear, these are also all ideas that are incompatible with the general public. It is society’s natural inclination to protect children and women. So why is it that the trans community has made it their mission to brand themselves as something that at best disregards the harm to both children and women and at worst willingly inflicts it? If this is the route the community insists on going down, I don’t see much hope at all. I expect the decline of acceptance to continue.
There is an LGBT fatigue that has fallen on many in society that is a direct result of the constant bullying, shaming, and virtue signalling that comes out of the community—or at least, the activists that are placed on a pedestal to speak on our behalf. As the GLAAD survey reveals, it is particularly millennials who feel this fatigue the strongest. Millennials tend to be the most plugged into the culture war, so it only makes sense that many are beginning to question—what if this LGBT thing is derailing a bit? Why must I be forced to accept drag queens teaching sex ed to my children, and why am I feeling my heart race at the mere thought of questioning or challenging it publicly?
At some point, the community is going to have to address the overreach and bad ideas we are currently spouting. I am personally exhausted with all of it, but hey—all I can do is continue to try to sound the alarm myself."

 https://www.thepostmillennial.com/this-is-the-reason-why-lgbt-acceptance-is-declining/

https://www.glaad.org/releases/annual-glaad-study-shows-further-decline-lgbtq-acceptance-among-younger-americans


3 comments:

Marshal Art said...

Two quick points:

1. With these types of debates, I respond to the "wrong side of history" with "the right side of morality". I'm on the latter with regard to LGBT issues. There's no question about it, except by those who have proven themselves in rebellion towards morality that does not satisfy their personal inventions of what morality is. As such, I don't much care about which side of history I'm on. "History" loses sometimes to whomever is the victor of a struggle. That is, the winner gets to write the history and in so doing will get to determine who the "good guys" are. Needless to say, those who support the LGBT agenda naturally believe they are the "good guys" in the struggle to further that immoral and disordered agenda. I'm certainly on the wrong side of them. But I'm not on the wrong side of morality by being so.

2. "Ms" White is a fairly regular guest on "Lowder with Crowder"...Steven Crowder's internet show...so I'm familiar with her. He's reasonable about the whole LGBT nonsense and pretty much simply concerns himself with being who he wants to be, while not necessarily being fanatical about forcing acceptance of his choice on others. This is all most asks and hopes from those like him. Too bad he's an outlier, not common at all among the LGBT activists. If it was not so, the culture wouldn't be in the mess it's in. At least not to the same extent.

Craig said...

1. That’s the point. Those who make that argument want to determine history by the results of opinion polls in the present. Hitters followers thought they were on the right side of history as well.

2. The point is exactly that it’s a reasonable position to take.

Craig said...

Of course the more important part is that it’s probably not safe to assume or project that one’s personal preferences will be the prevailing view of history. Just one more example that it’s not s given that Gen Z is going to continue to move further to the left.