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Old 07-03-2024, 10:31 AM
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Originally Posted by golfing eagles View Post
No, it's exactly the same. Because this is America, we tolerate minorities whether they are poisoning their lungs with smoke (outside away from the crowd so all you get is the smell and will never inhale enough to damage your lungs) or poisoning our minds with ideology. No difference, you can't have it both ways.
You can't get "cancer of the gay." You can't get "gay of the cancer." If you are exposed to a black person who prays to Allah, you can't catch his blackness.

You need to stop being afraid of things that can't hurt you. Or not. If someone's rainbow flag causes you anger and anxiety, well - it must just really suck to be you I guess.

But if someone was burning that flag, and the smoke drifted over to my yard, I might have a thought or two about the smoke. I don't care about the flag, because there is nothing about it that can hurt me.