Reply #1490: This is perhaps the best post in a thread with many, many fine posts. [View All]

I agree with you that what we are dealing with is more a matter of privilege (and, I would add, a rampant bullying culture) than outright homophobia.

Some posters here are outright, stone-cold homophobes, but you can count them on both hands and have a few fingers left over--not bad for a forum with so many members.

Most of the issue, as you say, is privilege.

Only from the dizzying heights of privilege does Dan Choi resemble Veruca Salt and basic human rights a pony, but that is the perspective of those who cannot see how grotesque it is for people with full legal rights to shout at those without the same rights that they should stop whining and be happy with what they have.

We need to talk about privilege here, but it's hard to have that conversation when there's a pack of bullies patrolling the place 24/7 determined to make meaningful conversation impossible.