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freebooter4ever · 2 years

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Reading this in a minute of downtime at work and this one bit cracked me up:

Like YES if pretending that you have the same respect for LGBQT people as you do for your grandmothers is what gets people to stop using slurs then pls by all means. Hahahaha.

#Im not entirely sure this would have worked on the kids i went to high school with #Like they would definitely never swear in front of their grandmas #But they also never considered gay people human like their grandmas #Isnt that the problem though? Slurs only work when the person who uses it still considers the minority group the Other #Pride night is supposed to change that and make it inclusive #Listening to that doc on russel today while working #But also remembering that movie about that First Nations fictional hockey player #Isnt a new problem and the difficulty is hat it took so much sacrifice to change not by changing it from the outside #But minority players with skill so INSANELY good that it cant be ignored #Had to get their foot in the door first #So really if we want to fix hockey we need to start at the youth level #And THAT i think is why pride nights are important to show the youth that their heroes arent homophobic assholes

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