In A Perfect World, Homophobes Are The Ones Who Are Outsiders
Oh, so you wanted an anti-bullying campaign that made you cry? Then step right up and check out this spot from Ireland’s BeLonG To Youth Services.
LOL. What a farce. With the way gays are such bullies themselves and have tried, in underhanded ways, to cause harm to Irish-Americans in NYC, now they’re going to pretend to be weepy-woozey over an ad from Ireland itself? Repulsive irony going on here.
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That’s a great video. Irish-Americans need to catch up to the real Irish people .. or drop the Irish hyphenate and call themselves Homophobic-Americans instead. No more St Paddy’s Day parades or Kiss Me I’m Irish buttons, because Irish-Americans are not Irish.
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yeah. that made me tear up a little too, very sweet.
@brooklyNite: whahuh? i’m confused.
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Aw that’s a lovely video. Unrealistic possibly, but very moving. I teared up.
Check out this lovely marriage equality video from Ireland as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ULdaSrYGLQ
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@Kev C: I have to agree, I have a lot of Irish ancestry but do not consider myself Irish, but as an American really as those Irish (& German) lines go past three generations. But as an American I wish we as a culture would be willing to stop being so damned ethnocentric and be willing to LEARN from other nations and cultures. That commercial or an American equivalent should be broadcast in the US, but as a culture we are still so homophobic that won’t be happening anytime soon still even in this day and age. One only has to look at how the media and politicians bend over backwards for the ignorant hate-mongering Tea Party.
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Straights get bullied by gays all the time….no one does anything for them either…
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Since when are Irish Americans homophobic? I’m an Irish immigrant and so is much of my family. I’m gay, I’m out, and they’re phenomenally supportive just like the rest of my family back in Ireland.
Maybe it’s an East Coast old immigrant community thing, but here on the West Coast every Irish American I’ve met has at least been very open minded about the whole thing if not downright supportive. When I came out to my godmother the first thing she told me was, ‘Its perfectly normal and if anyone tries to tell you otherwise then f*ck the lot of them!’
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@brooklyNite: Your mind and the twisted way you put things together is the only repulsive irony going on here.
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I actually disagree with the title of this posting. To use the word “perfect” sets up this crappy choice between doing nothing or wasting your time (because nothing is perfect) and what we’re doing now. That’s a false choice. In a BETTER world, homophobes are the ones who are outsiders. The difference that makes it better? US.
When do we stop being satisfied with being “almost” equal? I see videos like this and I feel justified in thinking to myself “this is exactly the kind of world i want to see.
Stop and think about it. After Stonewall, words like liberation, pride, and coming out reflected the vision, the passion, and the outrage at queer oppression in people’s minds. Today, the language is passive enough. We “celebrate” fundraisers, but not effective protest actions that make real immediate change for lgbt lives. We demoralize ourselves by insisting on this long, drawn out, eternal process for adding rights to the list, when politicians are elected who might, among a range of possible choices, pick one that is helpful to some gay people.
I would argue that the production of Glee has been more politically significant than anything HRC has ever done. There’s a reason why it’s “If you like then you shoulda put a ring on it” and not “If you like it understand these things take some so we’ve got to develop a state-by-state agenda that may take twenty years in which gay people have no say at all”.
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In reality,the probability that these will happen is like one in the million.I hope that video like this could be broadcast world wide instead of airing lady gaga.The world of mass media play a vital role to change the stereotype of the world.Sadly, they exploits it for money.
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Amazing! :)