Doing a burnout = gay bashing

[The_Squid]

http://saskatoon.ctvnews.ca/no-intent-to-hurt-father-of-crosswalk-vandal-tells-pride-co-chair-1.3446187

... there was discussion of leaving the tire marks as a reminder of the work that needs to be done when it comes to inclusivity. Eventually the decision was made to paint over the vandalism, but Papadatos said it’s not to brush it under the rug.

“The community needs to know that we are behind them and that this isn’t us just brushing over someone’s mistake. This is us getting ready to celebrate love in the city of Saskatoon,” he said.

It used to be that doing a burnout in your car was because of foolish youthful exuberance for horsepower....   which I seemed to have in spades when I was young.

Now, if you do a burnout on the wrong crosswalk, you're a hateful gay-bashing bigot.

This is sheer stupidity.  Is there so little bigotry these days that they have to make up some???

 

[Moonlight Graham]

it's impossible to prove the intent.  It might have been a coincidence, it might have been an anti-LGBT statement (despite what the father says).

[Guest]

It's unlikely the guy would have come forward and admitted it if it was an anti-gay statement.

[dialamah]

1 hour ago, bcsapper said:

It's unlikely the guy would have come forward and admitted it if it was an anti-gay statement.

If he was objecting (to gays, pride and/or rainbows) do you suppose his consequence made him more accepting?  

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, dialamah said:

If he was objecting (to gays, pride and/or rainbows) do you suppose his consequence made him more accepting?  

I'm not sure I understand...?

[dialamah]

44 minutes ago, bcsapper said:

I'm not sure I understand...?

I just rather idly wondered if the kid learned anything related to accepting gays if he was making an anti-gay statement.

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, dialamah said:

I just rather idly wondered if the kid learned anything related to accepting gays if he was making an anti-gay statement.

If he was I suspect he has some growing up still to do.  I thought your spell check had replaced conscience with consequence. 

[The_Squid]

1 hour ago, dialamah said:

I just rather idly wondered if the kid learned anything related to accepting gays if he was making an anti-gay statement.

Doing burnouts is anti-gay?

[Peter F]

6 hours ago, The_Squid said:

Doing burnouts is anti-gay?

more of a 'You ain't the boss of me" statement than anti-gay one. Or perhaps the driver was colour-blind, maybe.

[dialamah]

7 hours ago, The_Squid said:

Doing burnouts is anti-gay?

If that was his motivation.

[betsy]

Tire mark on the street = vandalism?    Even if it was meant to be anti-gay.....aren't tires  supposed to be on streets?  What's that rainbow doing on the street?

This zealotry over any perceived bigotry is going to end up swinging to the opposite end of another kind of zealotry. 

Edited June 9, 2017 by betsy

[hot enough]

On 6/9/2017 at 8:56 AM, betsy said:

swinging to the opposite end of another kind of zealotry.

The Jim Jones kind of christian zealotry.

[AngusThermopyle]

On 6/8/2017 at 7:42 AM, Peter F said:

more of a 'You ain't the boss of me" statement than anti-gay one. Or perhaps the driver was colour-blind, maybe.

Or maybe, just maybe, he was just a kid in a car doing stupid stuff. There's no need to overthink every thing that happens. Kids do stupid stuff all the time. Put them behind the wheel of a car and the stupid concentration rises dramatically in many of them.

[betsy]

On 6/11/2017 at 0:04 PM, hot enough said:

The Jim Jones kind of christian zealotry.

 

The real gay- hating and bashing kind of zealotry.

Edited June 13, 2017 by betsy

[hot enough]

12 hours ago, betsy said:

 

The real gay- hating and bashing kind of zealotry.

That has always been the purview of "christians". 

[Peter F]

2 hours ago, hot enough said:

That has always been the purview of "christians". 

It seems to me that the  real gay- hating and bashing kind of zealotry is not bound by religion.

[Peter F]

On 6/12/2017 at 1:54 PM, AngusThermopyle said:

Or maybe, just maybe, he was just a kid in a car doing stupid stuff. There's no need to overthink every thing that happens. Kids do stupid stuff all the time. Put them behind the wheel of a car and the stupid concentration rises dramatically in many of them.

yup. Lots of rubber laid on non-rainbow painted pavement too.

[DogOnPorch]

1 minute ago, Peter F said:

yup. Lots of rubber laid on non-rainbow painted pavement too.

 

By me...and I needed no reason. Just a '71 Gran Torino....or a 64 1/2 Mustang...or my cherished 3 speed F100 Step-Side...Loved that darn truck...three on the tree. Went bloody anywhere.

[hot enough]

1 hour ago, Peter F said:

It seems to me that the  real gay- hating and bashing kind of zealotry is not bound by religion.

Its roots are found in religion.

Edited June 14, 2017 by hot enough

[Peter F]

4 minutes ago, hot enough said:

Its roots are found in religion.

I don't think so. It's roots are found in guys being grossed out at the thought of having sex with guys - then rooting through religious texts to justify thier discomfort. Folks writing religious texts were not immune to this discomfort.

[hot enough]

15 minutes ago, Peter F said:

I don't think so. It's roots are found in guys being grossed out at the thought of having sex with guys - then rooting through religious texts to justify thier discomfort. Folks writing religious texts were not immune to this discomfort.

There you are, religious texts. Religion taught kids from very young ages to believe these things.

[Peter F]

2 minutes ago, hot enough said:

There you are, religious texts. Religion taught kids from very young ages to believe these things.

...along with many non-religous folks, lets not forget them.