Original comment chain here. Paging /f/tequila_wolf, the moderator who banned me from /f/lobby.
I was misunderstood a whole lot, and i see why. Before explaining what i meant, I want to say sorry for my admittedly narrow-sighted comment. With that out of the way, here's what went through my mind:
I saw the linked post talking shit about heterosexuals in general, calling them boring and bland. I'm tired to the bone of seeing people discriminate against any sexuality, and i see no justification for calling heterosexuals in general boring and bland.
My comment was not (!!) in any way trying to compare the suffering and oppression of LGBTQ people with that of heterosexuals, and i am whole-heartedly sorry that some of you felt that was what i was trying to say. I am simply against all unjustified discrimination (which i think is obviously existent in the linked article), and was trying to express that (and that only).
My comment was also not about the flag badge, or anything else in that article. I thought it was pretty clear when i posted it, but i see now how it can be misinterpreted.
Again, i'm sorry if i upset anyone. I hope you see that my comment was never intended to be what it was understood as.
Random_Revolutionary wrote
The power relation between cishet and lgbtq people is so one-sided that the words mocking one or the other do not have the same weight at all.
It's like the white genocide jokes that got lwse banned from reddit. Or the cannibalism jokes that pop up in /f/eattherich. Or even all the vegan jokes about carnists. They have next to no power backing them up and are thus unable to cause harm, even if technically discrimination.
Once the power relations are more equal, we will need to question those jokes. Unfortunately, it isn't the case outside of raddle and other communities.
Also it's a way to vent that doesn't harm anyone but conservative ego.