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In reply to the discussion: WTF!!! a Woman was beaten to a pulp because she is gay [View all]Zorra
(27,670 posts)is a perfect example of the festering violence and hatred that exists in the hearts of ignorant homophobes.
Those of us who are LGBT are very aware of how frequent these savage beatings and murders occur because they directly effect our community and are reported in the LGBT oriented publications that many of us read.
There is a lingering sadness, horror, anger, and outrage, and each time we read about another beating or murder of a member of our community, or another LGBT child bullied to death, it just about makes us physically ill. And we all know that we could be next.
This is the direct result of homophobia:
Sometimes, here at DU, it appears to some of us that some posters believe that we overreact to what they perceive as "a little harmless homophobia", that we are silly when we insist that homophobic slurs in posts be universally discouraged.
But none of it is harmless. It all adds up to one big whole of hatred and harm.