[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...on a bit of a negative and I think really relevant to what Owen Jones was also saying...is that apparently the restrictions on blood donations in terms of homosexual men, after the massacre were still upheld...blood was obviously desperately needed..(and is always needed..).. but some is refused because of who a person loves and because of their sexuality....there are some things that just couldn't 'happen to any of us', no matter how much sadness etc we may feel and how mush empathy we may feel..we will never actually feel and experience those prejudices/discriminations/those hates, which so many still do...this massacre could not have happened to any of us because it was very specific in it's target...some terrorist attacks could happen to any of us but this isn't one of them...maybe Owen shouldn't have walked out but his frustrations that the hate acted on in the Pulse nightclub and the emotions he must have been feeling in the immediate after-math and that it was just not being understood or acknowledged at all by them...I mean they just didn't get it, that 'any one of us' could not feel that hate and could not have felt prejudices that are still there and still very apparent in society...and then for Julia Hartley-Brewer to assume being any sort of 'spokesperson' for something she completely didn't get at all....


...anyways, we've come a long way as societies, I know with the acceptance of homosexuality...but a startling reminder of how far the journey still has to go...

Strong post as always.

I applauded Owen Jones walking out on the Sky News press review,he was clearly hurting for the victims of this hate massacre, as well as being wound up by them trying to separate this from not only likely being a terrorist crime but also a specifically targeted hate crime against the LGBT section of the community.

I was infuriated at Julia Hartley-Brewer not showing more sensitivity.
Then again overall I am usually disappointed at what she says anyway.