Morons of the Internet: Metro (21/08/16)

This is the segment where I scour my favourite forums around the internet and find some particularly interesting articles about current affairs told in the words of my favourite human beings.

In this edition we have a white knight aiming to appease the homosexual community by proclaiming that heterosexuals can't be proud of their sexuality, all of course in the name of equality and social justice.
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http://metro.co.uk/2016/06/29/heterosexual-pride-day-is-a-thing-and-heres-why-we-should-be-utterly-ashamed-5973753/?ito=twitter
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The Holocaust, slavery, and now worst of all Heterosexual Pride Day. What has gone wrong with our species? How in this day and age is it acceptable for heterosexual individuals to be proud of their sexuality. How dare these privileged assholes create a seemingly innocent hashtag that dared to show solidarity with people who follow norms. At no point in its inception is there any disrespect shown to any other sexualities, but just the barefaced cheek of straight people to be proud is apparently something the media feels it has to scorn over. I'm not sure why the author in this case decided to compare this trivial trend to completely unrelated criminal activities, but then as we're finding out this man has no concept of what the word 'context' means. The assumption that this hashtag is passive aggressive is never explained. With such a large and general point you would have thought this author would have bothered to provide some evidence, but instead he decides to just assume the motive based on nothing but his feelings. Of course there is going to be the odd bigot who takes this trend as an excuse to amplify their own viewpoints, because at the end of the day people on the internet are assholes, but that doesn't instantly mean the motive is a terrible thing in practice. The trend certainly isn't a shameful thing for the human species, that's an unbelievable over-exaggeration, and you still haven't backed up your claim that this will stump LGBT progression. The heterosexual pride movements you refer to in the 90's didn't stump the progression of gay rights, so why would this single trend?

This section is such a generalisation. The author here just assumes everyone taking part in the trend must be homophobic for simply raising awareness for straight people. I know you don't like heterosexual rights hogging the spotlight, but that doesn't give you the right to label any supporters as homophobic. You can label people who support this movement as 'bad', but that's not an argument, and backing up these tenuous statements with a tweet from some random girl on the internet is hardly great source work. That tweet in particular is from a girl in Plymouth. In the UK homosexuals can get married by law. They can also donate blood so long as they haven't had sex within a certain time period, which is a very reasonable precaution considering the blood may be contaminated with HIV. Gays also aren't mass murdered in this country, so where's this straight privilege you preach? And anyway, why does the struggles of one demographic mean another can't celebrate?

Oh here we go. I'm sorry in all my unequivocal privilege I forgot that everyday is obviously Heterosexual Pride Day, because as you all know it's absolutely impossible for a heterosexual to be oppressed. The victimhood complex here is so pathetic it's infuriating to read. It's a bit like saying we shouldn't have a harvest festival considering starvation isn't an issue in this country, and the fact that starvation is in other countries means we're actively oppressing them. Apparently all you need to prove this oppression exists is by citing vague and hypothetical scenarios that aren't really relevant to the issue at all. This whole piece is just such a strawman argument. Where is the evidence that this trend wasn't designed to degrade gay pride day?

Oh you poor special flower. You couldn't let heterosexuals have one single ironic trend, because everything has to be centred around struggles that personally affect you. You can try and hide this self centred attitude behind a weak justification that this trend allegedly creates homophobes, but once again you've shown me absolutely no evidence that homophobia was the result of this trend. It's then an even bigger leap to state that attitudes from the internet will integrate into real life, but for some reason this lack of reasoning is all the excuse you need to bark your agenda and have a little crusade in purging a trend that in no way undermines the gay rights movement. As shocking as this sounds it's perfectly fine to be a heterosexual. If you feel the need to broadcast that to the internet then good for you; that's what social media sites like Twitter are for. What isn't acceptable is to then be demonised for your harmless actions by self righteous assholes like this author because your not part of a certain demographic that should be given special privileges in starting pointless trends on the web. I hate this fucking selfish attitude. It's just another case of this victimhood complex, where just because a group of people is apparently less oppressed than you they therefore must be shut down by claims of undefined 'privilege'. This article is just further evidence that contrary to popular belief there is significant bigotry in the gay community whether this author wants to admit that or not. I'm not suggesting that this bullying is anywhere near the level of bigotry that homosexuals face, but that's irrelevant to this article, which is just a pathetic attack on a harmless hashtag.