Subj : Re: bell's way, and batts
To   : ROB MCCART
From : Mike Powell
Date : Wed Sep 03 2025 09:28:32

> MP>IMHO, one way the small groups do this is that they get enough people swaye
>   >from the larger group, by playing on their feelings/emotions at the expense
>   >of logic and facts.

> That is part of it, but if you can get the Gov't involved they can
> make laws and such that are totally unfair to most people to please
> smaller groups. Plus I think in a lot of cases ordinary people who
> want to be fair to everyone are often misled into agreeing with
> some things that are wildly unfair to the majority, which they are
> part of.

That last bit was what I was hinting at.  They play on their emotions in
order to mislead them into believing something is a bigger problem than it
is.

> A comment I made (in jest) a while back to illustrate the point
> was, I wonder what would happen if people also wanted to have
> a Straight Pride Parade every year too?  No doubt that would be
> considered totally illegal, an attack on non-straight people..

I don't know about illegal here, but it would be frowned upon to the point
where there would undoubtedly be counter-paraders/protesters showing up,
and it would be painted as homophobic, supremacist, etc.

> The person I was talking to also pointed out that in a lot of
> the Pride Parades, there is a good amount of full frontal nudity
> going on, which you'd be arrested for if you were anyone else.

I was not aware of that but, if that is the case, yes that would be
something that would certainly get you in trouble at a Straight Pride
Parade.  ;)

Mike

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