Those facts somehow didn't find their way into the article. So there was misbehaviour from a couple radicals. Hmmmm where have I heard that before? We've got the same problem with the trans community here in Vancouver; a couple people who want to manufacture incidents with the police in order to make their point that Police mistreat trans people.
It's difficult to deal with the fact that our entire community gets judged by the actions of a few when the majority doesn't. Are North Americans religious bigots because one idiot wants to burn Qu'arans or another group of idiots want to picket the world? Why can't the trans community be seen as any other, having the same ratio of idiots to reasonable people as anyone else? But no, the double standard exists and is applied to us. We have to be better than everyone or else we're worse. We all have to behave or else.
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Date: 2010-11-24 02:01 am (UTC)It's difficult to deal with the fact that our entire community gets judged by the actions of a few when the majority doesn't. Are North Americans religious bigots because one idiot wants to burn Qu'arans or another group of idiots want to picket the world? Why can't the trans community be seen as any other, having the same ratio of idiots to reasonable people as anyone else? But no, the double standard exists and is applied to us. We have to be better than everyone or else we're worse. We all have to behave or else.
And we do it to ourselves, too.