Apparently if you have different beliefs from ThinkProgress editor, Zack Ford, and you write about them that’s whining. Imagine being SO insecure in who you are that a piece written about someone else’s beliefs upsets you enough to go on some tweet rant like this:
1. So the @FDRLST has a whiny post from @BethanyShondark today about being forced to care about LGBTQ rights: https://t.co/yOLuPcJkob
— Zack Ford (@ZackFord) September 6, 2017
Yeah, how dare Bethany have her own ideas.
2. @bethanyshondark's "because that's what I believe" pro-bigotry arguments are weak, but there's something noteworthy there.
— Zack Ford (@ZackFord) September 6, 2017
Just because Zack disagrees with Bethany doesn’t make her or her beliefs, bigoted.
4. What @BethanyShondark argues that she should be ALLOWED to believe what she believes, even though those odious beliefs harm others.
— Zack Ford (@ZackFord) September 6, 2017
How do her beliefs harm anyone? And isn’t Zack harming her by attacking her person on Twitter because of her beliefs … isn’t that the definition of bigotry?
Hrm.
5. Indeed, she is a quintessential example of claiming free speech to justify her bigotry.
— Zack Ford (@ZackFord) September 6, 2017
Oh look, he said it again.
6. I don't think it strengthens her argument, but I think it's a context in which we need to view why she's so pissed.
— Zack Ford (@ZackFord) September 6, 2017
Maybe Zack needs a mirror, because we’re pretty sure we can see why she’s pissed.
7. You'll be "made to care," because intolerance harms people and is unjustified and the rest of us want the world to be a better place.
— Zack Ford (@ZackFord) September 6, 2017
Uh huh.
8. People who object to "coercion" and "loss of choice," as anti-LGBTQ conservatives often do, are avoiding responsibility.
— Zack Ford (@ZackFord) September 6, 2017
Avoiding responsibility. Fascinating.
9. We should respond by calling that out, not catering to their patently false concerns that their freedom is in danger.
— Zack Ford (@ZackFord) September 6, 2017
So is Zack targeting Bethany here? Isn’t that what bigots do?
People LIT HIM UP.
*10. Not sure folks are reading the full thread. My whole point is no one is saying she's not allowed to believe anything.
— Zack Ford (@ZackFord) September 6, 2017
That’s exactly what he said.
I don't even share her point, but yours is a bigger problem. I don't care what you think I or she should believe.
— Doug Stafford (@dougstafford) September 6, 2017
Thought policing is indeed a huge problem.
Think Progress mansplains to female opinion writer what she's "allowed to believe".
By 'Progress', does TP mean back to the 19th C future?— Neverevernever, nope – not ever! (@leilanitexas) September 6, 2017
This is the sort of progress that takes people backwards, just saying.
Zack Ford quite literally advocating for thought police. https://t.co/26tu02o7gB
— NeoN: Automataster (@neontaster) September 7, 2017
Good times. *eye roll*
your creepy desire to police people's thoughts is what's odious and will harm others far more than @bethanyshondark's beliefs ever could.
— sarah (@sarahbellumd) September 6, 2017
PREACH!
Allowed to believe? LOL dude, get a grip. No one made you God. Each person can believe whatever the want to believe, even a nimrod like you.
— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) September 6, 2017
And that’s the key. In America, people are ‘allowed’ to believe what they want, whether others agree with them or not … it’s in the Constitution or something. *wink*
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