Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-25184427-20140722165407/@comment-13965604-20140724223425

BoricuaWolf wrote: LadyX wrote:

And it's not even older adults lifetimes that things have changed. Even the last twenty years things have changed. Even more in the thirty and some change since my brother has been around.

Man, I've used the interracial couples comparison a few times. Especially in relation to marriage. People tend to not like that at all. Maybe because it hits too close to home, and a good point?

Along the lines of Teen Wolf being inappropriate for tv until the 70s or so. Didn't Wizard of Oz used to be considered an adult movie, or R rated when it first came out?

I don’t like the interracial marriage comparison (being an interracial person myself). There are similarities (people being discriminated and oppressed for who just being who they are), but it’s still not the same. Just like the Holocaust and the North Atlantic Slave Trade were both atrocities, but at the same time different. I don’t like the whole let’s compare injustices game. For the record I support marriage equality, so the comparison doesn’t hit too close to home, but at the same time I don’t find the comparison helpful.

And if we were comparing in a 'who had it worse' way, I would agree. It's not right or fair to compare things like this. But when we are just pointing out that 50 years ago the same argument was made for that discrimination that we recognize as wrong now, is being used for discrimination today for another group, I don't see the problem.