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Originally Posted by Sly
Except you didn't hold back your judgment. Your response was: I bet this turns out to be yet another in the line of recent "anti-gay" hoaxes.
"I bet."
You have already placed judgment.
So what is worse, someone blindly taking it as true or someone blindly taking it as false?
I'm in the bi-camp of "it could go either way," but I thought Abby had a nice response whether true or false.
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Fair enough. I also agreed with the response, but the tone of the letter did not come off as real to me on any level.
I guess I just want to balance out the trend to automatically believe every story that shows Americans as being anti-gay, and at the same time to ignore all of the hoaxing going on. There is the lesbian couple that spray painted their own garage with anti-gay slurs, (I think in Texas), the recent events at Vasser college with slurs being painted on peoples doors by a member of the "Bias Response Team" on campus, the lesbian that claimed to have been beaten by 3 men in the northwest, etc, etc... all in the last 6 to 9 months. The original hoaxes are widely reported and totally believed, and then the subsequent disapproval of their validity gets almost no coverage. I just think that the fact is, that the VAST majority of Americans, even the church going christian types, are far more accepting, civil and tolerant than the media wants to admit.
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