attacking the literal text and actual substance of the speech. Which shows how on-point it is. They mischaracterize, lie, invent straw women (let’s be gender-generous in our arguments), and rage on about things that were not actually in the speech.
They use mocking (thanks, Alinsky) in social media: one throwaway moment was Trump saying “ask the gays.” Sounds a titch pejorative, so they made a mocking hashtag of it. And if you read the Twitter feed of that hashtag, you only come away with how hateful “the gays” are toward straights.
You make all good points. Mocking everything, hating everything is the stuff that makes the news from that community. Frankly, I don’t think gays as a class are likely to be all that hateful. More the activists, the DebbieWSchultzes of the gay political world. For myself, one who would distance himself from the gay lifestyle, to put it cordially, I was shocked at this massacre and severely distressed that so many Americans were killed by that monster. Upon reflection, I found (to my relief) that it did not matter to me that these were gays. Their lives meant as much to me as a similar attack on a Christian Easter service. I did read later that gay leadership, such as it is, excoriated people like me for caring (Anderson Cooper). C’mon, A**, Cooper. You can be against the killing of gay Americans without being for, say, gay marriage. I don’t believe the average soul from that community would feel the same as these activists with their agendi.
Am I wrong?