jameseb said:
As for the war in Iraq.... yes, I've seen the demonstrations in Rome, Paris, London and across the globe over that war. Funny thing is, they never protested Saddam firing on coalition fighters protecting the no-fly zone, or portested Saddam's use of chemical weapons on his own people in addition to the Iranians. Funny thing those protesters are...
This is simply not true.
Protests, not always taking the form of marches, and not always well publicised or televised: but normally protest through channels; most often simply putting forward perspective which challenged a prevailing orthodoxy; have been going on through most of SH's time in power.
These became starker, and more starightforward to present, when Iraq wnt to war in Iran.
Armed, and it was always felt encouraged, by the West: Iraq instigated what resulted in 100's of thousands being killed and maimed; a WW1 carnage of attrition, of advanced weaponary, and retarded leadership.
These protests did not register, because that is the way of things, in modern society: you simply envelope protest in the sheer scale of things; and the voice of protest is stillborn.
For protest to register in modern society: you need to pass a tipping point of concern and reaction, and media interest.
So homosexual issue protest registers: because it has reached such tipping point; not because of numbers involved, or intrinsic relative seriousness of issue.
Personally, I think you exploit and discredit freedom of speech, in such drive-by shootings of straw men: where, in some small way, the unreasonable prejudice you thereby bring into being and play, as strong illusion one might say; may well find some taget in harming, distressing, or otherwise disadvantaging real people, in the real world.