As a GenXer I can honestly say that I have NEVER seen a gay person get verbally or physically attacked in my lifetime. Yeah, it happens, but I've lived half my life without witnessing it and I've travelled the world a bit. This includes 9 years in the military where everyone left the known gay servicemen and women alone to live their lives, time on vacation with family in Rehoboth, St. Augustine, and Cape May beaches where gay couples held hands and kissed, or working for a consulting firm that had a fairly noticeable percentage of gay employees. You're pretty sure of something that may have never happened. Why do you feel sympathy for them and feel compelled to give them victimhood? My black friend Chris has probably endured more shit (drives a white BMW, gets pulled over for little shit like rolling stops) than this couple ever will and his life is still pretty damn good.
People do get harassed (gays, Muslims, goths, white people on the wrong side of town, EVERYONE basically) but people are very eager to believe everything these days, especially if the accusation of harassment comes from a minority or is related to a minority.
Take Islamophobia, which is a complete myth in my opinion.
People talk about incidents of attacks/abuse on Muslims increasing after Islamist terrorist attacks. What they don't say is those incidents simply include REPORTS of these so called 'Islamophobic attacks'.
Which means someone reporting that someone looked at them the wrong way would count.
And of course a great deal of these reports are discounted because they are simply made up.
You often see people sharing tweets of things like "My friend, who is Muslim, was on a bus and she had her hijab ripped off by an angry white man in a Trump tshirt!!!".
Then countless people share it all over social media when the reality is that it is extremely likely that it didn't actually happen.
People LOVE to be on the side of people who are seemingly oppressed or discriminated against in some way. And the people who love that the most are of course the SJW's/liberals/left wingers.
It makes them feel better about themselves.
Katie Hopkins recently summed this up very very well:
"These days it is fashionable to be on the side of the struggle. To reject acceptance in case you are seen as normal.
It’s why people got bored of just being gay or lesbian.
Acceptance to them is like death.
They avoid acceptance like Ebola because to be accepted is to be normalised. And being normal is death."
