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icon3.gif Erasing Hate: A Community Discussion  [message #60454] Sun, 03 January 2010 20:30 Go to next message
Brody Levesque is currently offline  Brody Levesque

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An important message that needs exposure, widespread dissemination and a greater viral spotlight. I'm bringing it here to Tim's board for those who may not be aware of this important program or the foundation's work. Please enjoy it and I hope you find it inspiring.

Erasing Hate: A Community Discussion from Matthew Shepard Foundation on Vimeo.
Re: Erasing Hate: A Community Discussion  [message #60455 is a reply to message #60454] Mon, 04 January 2010 18:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
timmy

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I have not yet had the chance to watch the video. But, unseen, it seems reasonable to juxtapose this with it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/world/africa/04uganda.html?scp=2&sq=Uganda&st=cse

You need a free subscription, I think, to read it

[Updated on: Mon, 04 January 2010 18:05]



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Re: Erasing Hate: A Community Discussion  [message #60467 is a reply to message #60454] Thu, 07 January 2010 08:12 Go to previous message
timmy

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Just the opening three minutes of this video, ignoring the man with the bad haircut introducing it, make me wonder how the evil Fred Phelps could have picketed Matthew's funeral.

Looking at the banal normality of the killers reminds me that hate is hidden in all of our hearts. We are not immune from hating because we are gay. We are not immune from discriminating against others. And we do discriminate. It's easy to do. It's truly easy to do.

It can even be a fun thing to do. It's herd instinct, picking on the weakest. And we dehumanise the weakest in order to pick on them.

What I fail to understand is legislative discrimination.

I'm afraid the video itself lost impact for me after bad haircut man came back for the first time, about 11 minutes in. I'm currently forcing myself to watch and listen, feeling I have a duty not to skim forward.

Unfortunately I failed.

But I caught the live recordings at the end of people at work presenting on the topics of the foundation to real audiences. Those were impassioned and moving and effective.

[Updated on: Thu, 07 January 2010 08:14]



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