I had watched the initiator #WalkAway video and not thought much of it because it didn't show anything new, but this interview of Brandon Straka has SO much more content, and importantly, personal experiences that I can relate with. I had my own #WalkAway experience about an year earlier before him, and found a lot of commonalities with his.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEQ3h1pcQSI
A striking thing I'm noticing is that today, this group of people is way more under attack, ridicule and censure than homosexuals were in the West a generation ago. The experiences shared of how their friends, family, co-workers and (even more) school and college professors and peers threaten them and exclude them, how in interview after interview I'm coming across cases of simple people being threatened about their grades and their careers unless they agree with the dominant narrative, is so analogous to the well documented experiences of persecuted minorities throughout history, it makes you think.
Also shocking is how a prominent US politician can so recklessly make such direct calls for violence against this group with zero consequences. I'd read about that incident earlier but had not seen the actual video clip and the details of the actual acts of violence that people have committed after seeing that call for hatred. Attacking people when they're eating at a restaurant with their family or out shopping? Punching or beating to death or shooting people you don't even know because somebody told you he's a hater? How are these not acts of hatred? How are they in any way honorable?
Q: Hey, which side is this on..
A: No, I want you to ACTUALLY WATCH the content of this video rather than having the "which side is this on so I can avoid thinking" convenience. Read whats written above, see the video and think about how things could be if the shoe was on the other foot, even if hypothetically. Take the biggest principles you have in your life and switch all the words around, and check with yourself if you would still support them. Ask whether they're worthy of being called "principles" if they're so subjective and dependent on context (oh this applies to X but not to Y.. then it's not a universal principle, my dear!).
And if you want to see more #walkaway testimonials from ordinary folks, here's a few that should set your algorithm on the track:
"I walked out of one closet, into another one" #WalkAway -#WalkAway Campaign Official YouTube, 2018-07-17
#WalkAway from 'Divide & Conquer' Indoctrination -#WalkAway Campaign Official YouTube, 2018-07-10
'Bleeding Heart Liberal' to 'Die Hard Republican' #WalkAway -#WalkAway Campaign Official YouTube, 2018-07-17
#WALKAWAY How The Minority Became The Majority -John & Lexi Adventures, 2018-07-29
I #WalkedAway after we cut the cord (Cable) -#WalkAway Campaign Official YouTube, 2018-07-13
"When I started to #WalkAway... EVERYONE came at me" -#WalkAway Campaign Official YouTube, 2018-07-01
#WalkAway: The Crazy Conversation That Made Me Go -David Spuria, 2018-07-22
These #walkaway testimonials are amazing, and they're reminding me of the #hearthiswell testimonials by thousands of parents. Watch them before they get erased for being "hate speech" or "russian bots".
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