ISIS throws another gay man off building

True, there were the usual left-wing suspects. But on one right-wing website I went on, there were literally American right-wingers saying this was a good thing. Here's a taste of one of the worst comments.



And one comment on Twitter



It's quite sick that there are some people on the right who are so rabidly homophobic that they will verge on supporting ISIS

And ******* they are. I couldn't give two ***** what a handful of irrelevant right wingers said (their anti gay bs is dying anyway, Im right wing through and through yet I support LGBT rights, they are a dying breed)

when left wingers are trending topics like #IslamIsPeace and #ILoveIslam

The difference is pro Islam and pro terrorist feelings are on the rise in the left

Sorry you had that experience. Most of the gay guys I know are pretty chill and open-minded, they don't work in the creative industries they're academics and lawyers, one a military officer and another a cybersecurity expert who does cyberwarfare contracts for the MoD. They are, and I think most gay people these days are, pretty normal and not like the stereotype of the sort of gay person who makes sarcastic cutting remarks about people's fashion sense etc and has a generally effeminate demeanor.

The ones you met... were they SJWs? If so that probably has more to do with their bad attitude than their sexuality

The first one sounds horrible, to threaten to try to get you sacked. That's an awful thing to do. The second one sounds like a total d-bag, but on the other hand it's not impossible to reimagine him as straight (in other words, his sexuality seems irrelevant to him being a d-bag)

I wouldn't worry so much about telling people who are gay that you are Christian. There are many strands of Christianity who are very accepting of gay people (hell, there's even a gay Christian church called the Metropolitan Community Church). So I don't think they'll automatically assume you are prejudiced against them, nor do I think they would prejudge you. At least, I think most of them would not.

Anyway, there are plenty of us who are just pretty normal people. Neither saints nor sinners, not effeminate, not working in stereotypical gay professions... we have the same likes and dislikes, the same worries thinking about how to afford to buy a house, spend time on the couch with our boyfriend watching The Americans rather than out partying at gay clubs with ecstasy and GHB. In short I think the vast majority of us are really little different from any other person

Very reassuring to hear. As I said in another comment, most of my mates are centre-right (from the classical liberalism freedom of enterprise side) and I know even among social conservatives they're not at all like the comments that guy made. As you say, that kind of view is totally on the fringe even for very conservative people, and their hatred is dying out completely.



I accept your point about these particular far rightists being a dying breed and isolated within the broader right wing, whereas pro-Islamist and pro-terrorist views are growing like a cancer within the left and even the Labour Party is now led by such a person. That's why I'm fighting tooth and nail as part of the Labour moderate faction to see the end of the Corbyn reign. So yes I agree that this left Islam issue is probably more of a real problem, more pressing