Hayabusa Rider
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I didn't say they're the same. I said the bigoty is the same type of bigotry, just expressed differently based on different cultural norms, just as in my other post I showed how our norms changed over time.
Note that the bill has removed the harshest things, down to limited prison terms, making it a lot closer to the laws in some of our right-wing states just seven years ago.
Your not finding it convincing is your problem, not the post's, but you are not too convincing when you generalize what all Ugandans are like based on one crazy dictator.
My world view is more nuanced than that. I would no more sat "all Ugandans are" than I 'd say all Dems or Reps are alike, or that those who favor or dislike certain things fit into some mold which makes for a more convenient ideological taxonomy.
The reason for bring up Amin is my sense of irony. If one equates people who don't support gay marriage as being of some monolithic mindset (or to go the other way and say that those who would allow it are enlightened) is tantamount to saying that bad leaders are all alike. Bush isn't a cannibal because it's out of our cultural norm, but if it were, would Obama be a cannibal as well because some see him as being less than hoped for?
It's projection. "Person X thinks this way because that's how I reconcile the world and perception is reality".
My personal belief is that most states which allow gay marriage do so because the majority don't really care one way or another. That lets the minority run the herd. In some places it is the anti gay marriage folk who win the day, and elsewhere it's the opposite.
A small minority of people determine what happens because the majority are more concerned when the new HDTVs are going on sale. That's how it was with Iraq, and that's how it is with this issue.
Indifference is the way of things, and many who have an opinion one way or another couldn't give you a good reason for their feelings. Thinking is hard.