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Old 01-20-2017, 05:02 PM   #456
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Originally Posted by rubecube View Post
From the reaction from people I know in the gay community, it sounds like you're wrong. Regardless, who cares if they were welcome before? Which part of BLM presenting the argument that "Hey, we don't feel comfortable marching with an organization that still persecutes us," and Pride went "Oh ####, we didn't think about that because they're not really doing that to us anymore," is guilting them to you? I see it as them presenting a perspective that maybe some of the organizers hadn't considered previously.
The word I'd use is extorted, not guilted.
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