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Originally Posted by Draug
You are right. As a business, the NHL should simply excercise a procedure like you illustrated in your first paragraph. End of story from all sides.
What happens instead is that people are as intolerant and unwelcoming to Reimer as he has been to the LBGTQ+ community. Your statement in Bold is a good example of that. People truly intent to be intolerant, which is great, but it mistakenly only goes in one direction sometimes. The intolerance just goes around in circles, round and round, and each opposing group gets louder, louder, more indignant, and less tolerant with each iteration.
It is a big nothingburger if the NHL had a procedure like you mentioned. It is also a big nothingburger if nobody gave Reimer any press. There'd be lots of nothingburgers if every person just accepted every other person as a human and didnt try to impose their beliefs/morals/lifestyles on anyone else. It doesnt look like we are close to that.
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The difference is religion and bigotry are choices, while race and LGBTQ+ are how you are born. Facing consequences for your choices is perfectly fine. Discriminating against people based on how they were born is one of the most vile choices a human can make.
To that the people hating and attacking other people for how they are born, is somehow equivalent to people being intolerant to people who choose to hate and attack others is absurd.
Just look at the outcomes each group wants. The bigots want to forcefully destroy anyone who is different than them, and pass laws and use violence to do this. The other side will happily tolerate anyone minding their own business, and are only intolerant to people who choose to attack others.
You do not see LGBTQ+ people forcing their way in and attacking church services, trying to shut them all down. But you do see people attacking drag shows, and LGBTQ+ spaces. Even though statistically those churches are way more likely to be exposing children to sexual abuse.
This is a very one sided issue. To pretend otherwise requires someone to be so completely tone deaf to the situation.