Hateful and Offensive

You'll remember that the previous entry ended with the sentence, "Why is it that describing a negative phenomenon in accurate terms shows a lack of neutrality?" The discussion continues after a related incident...

A wikipedian expressed concern today that the aforementioned Straight Pride article in wikipedia is linked from the Gay Pride article. Said person thought that the link should be deleted:

"I feel it should be removed until the Straight pride article is cleaned up to be less hateful and offensive. For example, there's a sentence in it that says "Most supporters of Straight pride feel that homosexuals are inferior in some way to heterosexuals." Unsourced and untrue! Gay pride certainly does not make any such absurd assertions."

"Hateful and Offensive," he says.

This is interesting for so many reasons. First of all, judging from this user's wikipedia page, he is most likely both gay and fairly liberal, so his statement is not based on a homophobic bias, as you might otherwise suspect. Why would such a person defend homophobes against accurate accusations of homophobia?

Second, read his argument again. He claims that straight pride advocates don't claim to be superior simply because gay pride advocates don't claim to be superior. One has nothing to do with the other (as I responded on the relevant Talk page)!

This is a fault that many liberals (myself included, at times) have, usually resulting from a desire to be fair. They go so far out of their way to be unbiased and impartial that they end up overcompensating and defending the very people who have no qualms whatsoever about harboring rather severe biases against the liberals defending them. Wake up and smell the coffee, people! Look who's running the country and the world today. Look what they're doing to us! Stop defending them and start spreading the truth for a change!