________-rights is good. _______-affirming is wrong

Today in the US minorities and the historically marginalized have rights. Even in the most backwater little town, if someone slaps a man for being gay at a grocery store, a deputy sheriff is going to show up and the attacker is going to be in handcuffs.

And that is real progress over how it was 50 years ago. 

________-affirming is not a right, it is optional and personal. Companies, campuses and others that demand for example queer-affirming or black-affirming discourse throughout the organization are creating a new kind of exclusionary dynamic. 

In the case of demanding queer-affirming dialogue the social damage goes further. The majority are heterosexual, and they have the right to discuss life, goals and the reality around them in a heterosexual way. Their rhetoric gets to be heteronormalized, for heterosexuals to do otherwise is absurd. The species is binary gendered and heterosexual by majority, it has to in order to make offspring and continue as a species. 

LGBTQ live on a heterosexual owned planet, having the right to live out their dreams in safety and unharrassed. 

....but not especially accommodated in all public discourse.

It is time for those that agree to undo the soft fascism in our more progressive organizations. We have mistaken a lot of silly language as progressive, and it is time to be rude to the toxic actors that have spread this garbage.

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post script: all the above written by someone supporting the legalization of gay marriage since the late 1970's. I am for legal rights.

Inspiration for this post came from this hilarious stuff by BLM.