That Demmed Idiot (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ahsu) wrote,@ 2006-10-19 14:36:00 |
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Walks like a meme, quacks like a meme
And I don't know what else you'd call it. Basically, it says that if you believe in gay rights (LBGT, anyone?) on livejournal, you should repost it on your journal; if you don't believe in gay rights, ignore it.
In other words, post this on your journal or I'll think you're a homophobic jerk. No. Actually, we'll all know you're a homophobic jerk.
I don't take well to people attempting to force my support on a subject, even, or perhaps especially, if I agree with them.
Once someone puts it in those terms, anything I post in my journal becomes, in my eyes, invalid, because there's no way to know if I actually believe what I'm writing or if I'm just trying to look good to someone else.
Besides, if I'm going to write in support of LBGT rights, I'd do better to write my state and national reps and senators, urging them to pass, you know, *laws* that might, you know, actually do something about it. Or I could demonstrate. Or I could volunteer to do AIDS hospice. (Not a strictly LBGT issue, obviously.) Or any one of a number of things, all of which would be more helpful than posting something in my journal just because someone tells me to.
And I don't know what else you'd call it. Basically, it says that if you believe in gay rights (LBGT, anyone?) on livejournal, you should repost it on your journal; if you don't believe in gay rights, ignore it.
In other words, post this on your journal or I'll think you're a homophobic jerk. No. Actually, we'll all know you're a homophobic jerk.
I don't take well to people attempting to force my support on a subject, even, or perhaps especially, if I agree with them.
Once someone puts it in those terms, anything I post in my journal becomes, in my eyes, invalid, because there's no way to know if I actually believe what I'm writing or if I'm just trying to look good to someone else.
Besides, if I'm going to write in support of LBGT rights, I'd do better to write my state and national reps and senators, urging them to pass, you know, *laws* that might, you know, actually do something about it. Or I could demonstrate. Or I could volunteer to do AIDS hospice. (Not a strictly LBGT issue, obviously.) Or any one of a number of things, all of which would be more helpful than posting something in my journal just because someone tells me to.
