[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

Bit of a reach there, Cherie and I think you know that.

Straight people can't really be discriminated against on the grounds of their sexuality, in theory they can but in practice it just does not happen. White people in the western world do not have to fear racism. We just don't. Again, theoretically it's possible but a white person in the west will never face the same discrimination a black person faces.

What you are doing here is twisting things by making out that I've said that white straight people can't complain about discrimination at all and that's just a straight up fallacy on your part. Straight White people are just not likely to ever experience racism or discrimination against their sexuality. Ageism, disability, religion etc are a completely different barrel of fish and aren't reliant on race or sexuality and you know that.

What you are doing is basically muddying the discussion to try to score a cheap win while minimalising racism and homophobia.

I’m not minimising anything you are focussing on two issues of discrimation that you obviously feel are more important that any other, as previously said this isn’t a competition, and the number of times it happens is not relevant, straight whites can experience sexual discrimination as part of a mixed race couple and a white person would rarely be welcomed into an Asian family. I see you didn’t comment on the traveller thread either which had some of the worse discrimation I have seen on TiBB and it was allowed to stand, imagine talking a black or Asian stereotype and applying it to a whole community, the masses would be baying for blood